Access to student records/grades Is it common practice within colleges/universities to allow all faculty within a division access to all student records within that same division?  (i.e., all Health Science faculty having access to all Health Science student records)
Wouldn't this violate FERPA?
Reading FERPA, this clause states that it is appropriate given certain circumstances.


  However, FERPA allows schools to disclose those records, without consent, to the following parties or under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31):



School officials with legitimate educational interest;
Specified officials for audit or evaluation purposes; 
Appropriate parties in connection with financial aid to a student; 
Organizations conducting certain studies for or on behalf of the school;


These would be closest to those that matched what you asked.

So if, for example, your HS faculty wanted to average everyone's GPA individually, he could potentially do that, as long as he doesn't post all the names in public.