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High School GPA Percentile Calculator

See how your high school gpa compares with a relevant reference population.

Grouped national distribution
Sources

NCES High School Transcript Study
ACT GPA Distribution Report (2011 graduates)

About this calculator

What this calculator measures

See how your high school gpa compares with a relevant reference population. The comparison uses the reference population and evidence identified on this page.

How to interpret your result

A percentile describes the approximate percentage of the stated reference population with a lower value. When a source supports only categories, medians, or averages, Humanlytic shows that broader comparison instead of inventing an exact percentile.

Methodology

How this works

Evidence quality

Calculated from survey data

Method

Humanlytic places the entered unweighted GPA into ACT’s published 2011 GPA bucket and sums only complete lower buckets. It reports the resulting cumulative percentile range without assuming a normal or uniform distribution inside the bucket.

Data source

NCES High School Transcript Study and ACT Enrollment Management Trends Report

Limitations

The percentile range uses ACT’s published grouped GPA distribution; NCES HSTS is the federal authority for national transcript-based GPA context. Grading systems and course difficulty vary between schools, so this is an estimate on an unweighted 4.0 scale.