Scholastic Achievement Awards for Graduating Seniors
A graduating senior will receive special recognition based on a seventh semester grade point average.
Those seniors who have maintained a 4.00 average or higher will graduate Summa Cum Laude.
Those with an average of 3.85-3.99 will graduate Magna Cum Laude.
Those with an average of 3.70-3.84 will graduate Cum Laude.
These distinctions show excellence in academic achievement and shall be noted at the commencement ceremony with an appropriate award, and a notation will be made on the diploma.
The three students earning the highest seventh semester GPAs will be designated valedictorian, salutatorian and essayist (scholastic). Only students who have concluded two full, consecutive years at Northern Valley by seventh semester will be considered for these graduation distinctions.