Graduation Requirements
In order to graduate, you must have 27 credits (19 required & 8 elective) from grades 9-12. Your citizenship must also be at least a 2.00 CPA.
What is a credit?
A credit is received when a student takes and passes a class in school. It is a way of measuring what the student has accomplished. Each class is worth a certain amount of credits. The longer you take the class, the more credits you receive. For example, every student takes English for the entire school year. For each quarter that the student passes, they earn 0.25 credits. By the end of the school year, they will earn 1.0 credit for successfully completing 4 quarters of English study.
If you do not successfully complete 27 credits, you will have to do credit recovery in order to graduate. Credit recovery is completed mostly outside of school. There is a fee for every credit you need to recover.
What is a credit?
A credit is received when a student takes and passes a class in school. It is a way of measuring what the student has accomplished. Each class is worth a certain amount of credits. The longer you take the class, the more credits you receive. For example, every student takes English for the entire school year. For each quarter that the student passes, they earn 0.25 credits. By the end of the school year, they will earn 1.0 credit for successfully completing 4 quarters of English study.
If you do not successfully complete 27 credits, you will have to do credit recovery in order to graduate. Credit recovery is completed mostly outside of school. There is a fee for every credit you need to recover.
List of required classes and credits for graduation
4.0 credits of English:
Foreign Language Foreign language is actually NOT required for high school graduation. However most colleges prefer to see students take at least 2 years of a language. As of 2016, 7th and 8th graders who take a world language class will have that class added to their high school transcript, however, the grades they receive will not be factored into their high school GPA. This is a change of policy from 2015 which originally stated that world language grades would factor into their high school GPA. Student transcripts will still show colleges that they took a year or two of foreign language in 7th and/or 8th grade. Basically you get to say you took a foreign language without worrying about it effecting your transcript GPA. For more info, check out our Foreign Language page. Want to earn credits outside of school? Check out Online Classes. |