HCPSS MPIA Request #2025-027

Responsive to this request, please find attached GPA data. Please note, GPA’s were calculated after final grades were posted at the end of the 2023-2024 school year and are GPAs for last year’s 11th and 12th grade students. There are no currently calculated GPAs for current 12th grade students, thus this data includes their 11th grade GPA at the end of the year. If any of these students took Summer school classes, then the actual GPAs may be different. HCPSS must protect against the potential disclosures of personally identifiable information about students as required by both the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which restricts access to student records, and MPIA GP § 4-313, which prevents disclosure of school district records pertaining to individual students. In accordance, HCPSS follows the Maryland State Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics’ guidelines for protecting student privacy in public reporting and suppresses the following from responsive records (see also specific suppression techniques contained within the responsive record): populations that fall below 10; percentages that are less than or equal to 5, or greater than or equal to 95; categories directly related to specific student records; and/or information that can reasonably identify an individual student or reveals information from an individual student’s record or could do so when combined with other publicly accessible data. HCPSS has made substantial efforts to ensure the accuracy of this information; however, data collection and reporting is consistently subject to change. Please be mindful when comparing data as many variances can occur between reports based on date pulled, parameters used, categories included, etc.