Cum Laude At St. Albans Cutoff?

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard that the lower school gives an academic award at prize day to students in each grade of the LS. Any idea what grades are needed for that? We’re new so this will be our first one and am curious where the threshold usually is set. Hard to get a sense of how good the “good grades” have to be. Is it a similar A- or so average like cum laude?

Please stop. You are going to stress your kid out. Parents and kids are not thinking about this in lower school and if they are they should not be.

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04/14/2026 11:47

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard that the lower school gives an academic award at prize day to students in each grade of the LS. Any idea what grades are needed for that? We’re new so this will be our first one and am curious where the threshold usually is set. Hard to get a sense of how good the “good grades” have to be. Is it a similar A- or so average like cum laude?

Please stop. You are going to stress your kid out. Parents and kids are not thinking about this in lower school and if they are they should not be.

I’d care less about the award and more about whether my kid’s straight As or whatever are the norm in lower school. In that respect, PP’s question about whether an A- average would be considered exceptional enough to warrant an award from the lower school like it does in the upper school seems like a fair question.