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Unionville High School unveils refreshed school profile, revises GPA bands and adds National Merit detail
Summary
UHS staff presented an updated school profile designed for college admissions officers; changes include moving grading scale to front page, breaking the top GPA band into 0.4 increments for transparency, and adding National Merit finalist counts.
Dr. Jenkins, principal of Unionville High School, and Anne Davis, the school’s college and career counselor, presented an updated UHS school profile to the Curriculum, Instruction and Technology Committee.
Davis and Jenkins said the profile’s intended audience is college admissions professionals and described changes meant to make the document clearer and more visually accessible. The presentation said the grading-scale information has been moved to the front page and the GPA distribution chart has been re-banded into 0.4-point increments, producing a bell-curve distribution intended to give admissions officers more transparent context than the prior top-heavy banding.
The updated profile also adds more detail to National Merit reporting (including finalists and commendations) and includes a representative map and list of colleges where students received acceptances in the prior year. Presenters emphasized the acceptances list is a representative sampling of accepted institutions, not a complete attendance roster, and noted a school appearing on the acceptances list does not necessarily mean a student ultimately enrolled there.
Davis and Jenkins said the profile will be distributed digitally alongside transcripts; counselors use Naviance for application submissions and increasingly rely on digital formats. Board members asked whether athletics figures included club sports; Davis clarified the participation figure cited covered varsity and junior varsity athletics (including ninth grade where applicable) and excluded club sports except for crew, which the district treats as an athletics program.
Committee members praised the profile’s visual redesign and the move to place key grading information up front so college readers can quickly find context about course availability and grading scales. No formal board action was taken at the CIT meeting; Jenkins and Davis were thanked for their work and will proceed with the profile changes.
