Rank, GPA, Auto Admit

By EISD Board policy, Westlake High School does not rank students below the top 10%. Texas state law requires all public schools to numerically identify the top 10% of each class. Grades are weighted using bonus points: plus 10 points for Level Two courses and plus 5 points for Level One courses. The student’s GPA is weighted, and is calculated using semester grades in all courses, grades 9-12. The actual grade earned in the course is the grade that appears on the transcript. A list of weighted courses can be found here.

RANK FOR GRADUATION PURPOSES:  The top ten percent of students in a graduating class will be determined using course grade bonus points and will be the actual top ten percent of the number of all students ranked. The top ten percent of the graduating class are considered honor graduates. For the purposes of determining the weighted academic class rank, grades through the 3rd nine-week period of the senior year will be used. The valedictorian and the salutatorian will be the two students with the highest and second-highest weighted academic class rank. To be eligible, a student must have attended Westlake High School and be a member of the class in which they will graduate for four complete semesters prior to graduation. In case of a tie for the valedictorian, the student with the highest numerical grade average of all AP courses taken shall be the valedictorian. A student who graduates early cannot be valedictorian or salutatorian. For two school years following their graduation, high school graduates who ranked in the top ten percent of their graduating class and do not enroll in an institution of higher education remain eligible for automatic admission into any Texas public university or college. Students and parents should contact their counselor for further information about how to apply and the deadlines for application.

GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA)

GPA is the numerical average of all courses taken during the regular school year. As with rank, grades earned through correspondence, summer school, credit by examination, dual credit, online, or middle school will not be included in the GPA. The GPA will be reported as a weighted average on the transcript beginning in the spring semester of the student's sophomore year.

Students wanting to calculate unweighted GPA or to convert their GPA to a 4.0 scale can follow these instructions.