Quality Point Ranking (QPR)/Class Rank: The Waterbury Public School System believes it is necessary and important to provide differentiated quality points for the purpose of weighting its academic course offerings at the high school. The current curriculum contains a wide variety of courses at various levels of academic challenge. Students are allowed considerable choice and are encouraged to strive for academic excellence. Grade weighting encourages and rewards students for selecting courses at more challenging levels of difficulty. 

Quality points are the weights that are assigned to courses in order to communicate their differing academic challenge. Weights assigned to academic courses communicate the level of academic challenge inherent in each course to students and their parents; therefore, the weights assigned help students to make more appropriate course selections. Additional weights assigned to college preparatory courses recognize that more challenging courses require advanced levels of work; therefore, advanced courses have higher course weights.

A grade weighting/class ranking system shall be implemented for the high schools as follows: