Senior Planning

Senior year is an exciting part of your high school career. It’s also a very important time. You’ll be doing more this year to prepare for the next stage of your life than at any other point in your life. Use your time wisely to stay on top of college admission dates and scholarship deadlines, and be sure to finish all graduation requirements and community service hours.

Graduation Requirements

To graduate from Smethport Area High School, students must successfully complete a minimum of 24 credit hours (28 beginning with the class of 2022) during their ninth through twelfth-grade years. Besides elective courses, students must earn the following:

  • 4 English credits (1 each year)
  • 3/4 math credits (4 starting with the class of 2022)
  • 3/4 science credits (4 starting with the class of 2022)
  • 4 social studies credits (including American government/economics)
  • 2 health credits (taken during 9th and 11th-grade years)
  • 4 physical education credits (1 each year)
  • Driver’s Ed (taken 10th-grade year)

Class Rankings

We determine class rankings by calculating each student's cumulative grade point average (GPA) on a scale of 0 to 100. This represents an average of all final grades earned in credited classes from ninth grade onward. The student with the highest cumulative GPA of their class is ranked number one. If two or more students complete Smethport with the same average, they are assigned the same rank but all subsequent numbers are left unassigned. For example, if two students tie for highest GPA, they will each receive a rank of one. The next available rank will be three; there will be no rank of two. We name the top two ranking seniors the valedictorian and salutatorian of their class.

Our Grading Scale
A (95-100) = 4.0 GPA
A- (93-94) = 3.67 GPA
B+ (91-92) = 3.33 GPA
B (87-90) = 3.00 GPA
B- (85-86) = 2.70 GPA
C+ (83-84) = 2.33 GPA
C (76-82) = 2.00 GPA
C- (74-75) = 1.70 GPA
D+ (72-73) = 1.30 GPA
D (67-71) = 1.00 GPA
D- (65-66) = 0.67 GPA
F (64 or below) = 0.00 GPA