The Class of 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian may be the last Gloucester High School students to have those scholarly designations. Matt Lord, the GHS Director of Counseling, told the Gloucester School Board last week that class rankings do not benefit students applying to college. According to Lord, colleges look at what classes students pursued more so than their overall grade point averages. During graduation, seniors graduating in the top 10 percent of their class wear gold tassels on their mortar boards and honor graduates are those who graduate with grade point averages of 3.5 or higher. Lord pointed out that 70 of about 400 GHS seniors currently have GPAs of 4.0 or higher. Lord said the school board does not have a policy governing class rank and that the practice of designating the top 10 percent and announcing “honor graduate” when a student’s name is called out during graduation are simply traditions.  Those traditions will be maintained for the Class of 2020, Lord ...