THE DEPARTMENT of Science and Technology announced that 1,330 Grade 12 students will graduate from the Philippine Science High School for School Year 2020-2021.

DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Peña said the number is 98.08 percent of the 1,356 Grade 12 students in the 14 campuses of the PSHS System.

“From among the graduates, 49.55 percent are receiving academic honors, 35 or 2.63 percent are awarded with highest honors, their general weighted average in six years being between 1.0 to 1.20; and 624 or 46.92 percent are receiving with high honors, their GWA being between 1-21-1.50,” De la Peña said.

Robert Nelson Leung of PSHS-Cordillera Administrative Region Campus received the highest GWA at 1.03.

The DOST chief said that in the first quarter of SY 2020-2021, 50 percent of the student population of PSHS was considered honor students.

Last March, De la Peña commended the outstanding performance of the PSHS students despite the challenges amid the shift to remote learning.