The senior(s) with the highest grade point average (GPA) based on four (4) consecutive semesters, including participation in a district-recognized foreign exchange program for no more than two (2) semesters during their junior and senior years shall be selected as Little High School’s nominee[s] to receive the Wisconsin Academic Excellence High Education Scholarship.
Ties will be broken and alternates will be designated as further provided by law and in these procedures. A student who receives the Academic Excellence Scholarship is not eligible to receive a Wisconsin Technical Excellence Higher Education Scholarship, and vice versa.
Scholarship recipients and alternates shall be selected annually based on the student’s GPA as it is normally determined by Little Chute High School and as shown, to the same number of decimal places, on the student’s official transcript as of the last day of the fall semester prior to the spring semester in which the scholarship is awarded.
The following are additional minimum eligibility requirements that the District has established for the Academic Excellence Scholarship:
- A student has senior status for purposes of competing for the scholarship if (1) the student is in his/her fourth year of high school or an equivalent-level program; and (2) by no later than the end of the spring semester in which the scholarship is awarded, the student must have completed or be expected to complete all of the District’s high school graduation requirements. A student cannot compete for the scholarship in more than one school year.
- The student must be enrolled in the District’s high school as a full-time student or must have graduated from the High School early, at the conclusion of the fall semester, prior to the semester in which the scholarship is awarded.
- The student who is awarded a Wisconsin Academic Excellence Scholarship must attend a post-secondary institution in the State of Wisconsin (public or private). A student receiving a Wisconsin Technical Excellence Scholarship must attend one of the sixteen (16) Wisconsin Technical Colleges.
- A student cannot receive both scholarships. If a senior selected for the scholarship declines the scholarship or is determined to be ineligible for the scholarship for any lawful reason, the District’s scholarship recipient shall be selected from the list of alternate designees with the next highest GPAs, in rank order. Per state law, no alternate may have less than a 3.800 GPA or equivalent.
In the case of a tie for the senior with the highest grade point average (GPA) and/or in the case of a tie in determining the rank order of alternate designees, the high school pupil services department (i.e. school counselors and high school principal) shall determine the scholarship nominee and certify, in rank order, the District’s alternates. The following procedure, approved by the Board will be implemented to break ties:
In the event of a tie involving the GPAs:
- The first tiebreaker will be the ACT composite score. The scholar with the highest ACT composite score will be selected.
- The second tiebreaker will be the highest sub-score on the ACT Test. Each student’s subscores will be ranked from highest to lowest. The next tiebreaker will be the second, third, and fourth highest sub-scores in that order.
- In the event there is still a tie, a winner will be randomly drawn by the board president.
