I had 27 valedictorians in a class of 279

My high school was the same: no pluses or minuses, no weighted grades, only the full course grade mattered (so if it was a full-year course, the semester grades did not count).

The class ahead of mine only had about a dozen, but one of my friends met with the (very Baby Boomer; this was 2000) superintendent to complain about it. His response was, "If it were up to me, every student would be a valedictorian." The superintendent was the only person who actually spoke at graduation, so by the actual definition of the word, he was the valedictorian.

Despite 27 valedictorians, there was only one salutatorian because she transferred from a school that had 8 class periods instead of our 7, so she had a few extra As to average against her one B.