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3.1. Honor Roll
PowerSchool can automatically calculate an Honor Roll list based on calculations that are set at the building level. Each Honor Roll Method can have multiple Levels with different requirements for each. Each student would be evaluated for each level in descending order.
Example: HS Honor Roll has three levels. The first Level is Above a 4-point GPA, second level is 3.9-4.0 GPA, third level is 3.7-3.9 GPA and allows no grade to be below a B-.
Honor Roll Calculation Methods
Calculations can take the following into account:
- GPA (Choose a specific GPA Calculation Method)
- Total number of Credits - Potential and Earned
- Letter Grades
- Only Certain Letter Grades
- Example: Student can only have A & A-
- None of a Certain Letter Grade
- Example: Student can have no F, D-, D, D+, C-, C, C+
- At least/No More Than/Exactly
- Usually used in combination with the None option above
- Example: Student is allowed No More than one B+ or B
- NOTE: These settings are based on STORED GRADES. Your grades must be stored BEFORE calculating the Honor Roll.
- Only Certain Letter Grades
Honor Roll Methods can be found in the PowerSchool Admin portal inside of a school (not District Office) under School Management > Academics > Honor Roll > Honor Roll Methods.
Calculating Honor Roll
Honor Roll is calculated manually and stored in a separate table tied to each Store Code.
When Honor Roll is calculated, PowerSchool evaluates every student in the building against the chosen Honor Roll Method Levels. Based on its calculation, it adds a record for each student who meets any of the criteria and notes with "level" of the Honor Roll Method they met.
Please note that re-calculating Honor Roll will only update students who still meet any of the criteria. If a student was initially added to an Honor Roll for S1 of the current year, and you modify the criteria or grades are re-stored, and the student should no longer qualify, the student WILL NOT be removed from the Honor Roll list. In this instance, we recommend contacting MAISD PS Help Desk Support to have Honor Roll records deleted and then re-calculated.
Calculating Honor Roll can be found in the PowerSchool Admin portal inside of a school (not District Office) under School Management > Academics > Honor Roll > Calculate Honor Roll.
Alternative Methods
Some districts have instead opted to utilize a sqlReport that allows them to set certain Honor Roll criteria and simply run the report when they need an updated list. This is generally a much easier method, but has the downside of not saving those records in PowerSchool for retrieval later without re-running the report.