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Park City School District to replace class rank with Latin honors beginning 2026–27
Summary
District staff proposed eliminating class rank on transcripts and adopting a Latin honor system that awards laude distinctions and recognizes concurrent-enrollment coursework; implementation was delayed one year to allow family and student outreach.
Liz Moskow, a school counselor at Park City High School, told the Park City School District Board of Education that the district plans to stop reporting class rank and instead adopt a Latin honor system that awards cum laude, magna cum laude and summa cum laude distinctions based on an honors score that counts concurrent-enrollment and AP courses.
The change is intended to recognize students’ rigorous coursework more fairly and to reduce the emphasis on a single numeric class rank, Moskow said. She said many high schools no longer report rank and that college admissions officers “don’t see…
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