Student Recognition
Academic honors are determined at the end of each marking period. Students placed on the Honor Roll earn a minimum of a 3.30 grade point average in academic courses, have no grade below a C in other courses. Students are placed on the Headmaster's List if they earn a 3.75 or high grade point average in academic courses, have no grade bellow a C in other courses and no unsatisfactory behavior grades.
Each May, the Headmaster's Luncheon honors students who have been on the Headmaster's List for three of the five previous marking periods that year. Invitations are sent to eligible students.
Class rank is computed at the end of each academic year on the basis of each student's overall cumulative grade point average.
Awards and Scholarships
An Honors Convocation is held at the end of each school year in June. Students who have excelled in academics, athletics and student organizations are honored. Among the scholarships and awards given are the following.
The Donald B. Ward Outstanding Senior Award
I in memory of a former Senior Minister of The First Congregational Church,
honors a senior of outstanding character and morals, with high academic
standards and achievement, who has been active in Pilgrim's extracurricular
activities, and who has exhibited outstanding leadership qualities.
The Clifford V. Weining Outstanding Senior Athlete
Award
Created to honor Pilgrim School's first Director of Athletics. It honors
two male and female senior athletes, based on their accomplishment over
their high school careers. Recipients are to have demonstrated outstanding
athletic achievement, citizenship, scholarship, and school spirit.
The Leslie Richardson Memorial Scholarship
Awards a partial tuition to Pilgrim for an outstanding ninth grader, a
tenth grader, and an eleventh grader whom will be returning to Pilgrim.
Their teachers select these three students in the spring. Recipients are
to be well-rounded, with high academic aspirations, be active in student
government, athletics, the fine arts, and to have performed service for
the Pilgrim and the greater community, and most important, exhibit a positive
school spirit.
National Honor Society
The National Honor Society is a student-run service organization. Induction into the National Honor Society is considered an honor. A faculty sponsor provides necessary oversight and is responsible for orchestrating the induction process. Students are eligible for consideration at the end of their tenth grade year and must have an overall B average. A Faculty Council convenes to consider eligible candidates on the basis of their scholarship, character, leadership and service. The selection process, per national organizational by-laws, is done in secret.
Following their induction, students elect organizational officers and organize and run service projects that benefit the school community.