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High School Course Guide

NOTICE

CHANGE IN GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

Service Learning has been deleted as a requirement for graduation. This affects all current high school students.  References to service learning have not been deleted from the course guide documents linked from this page.  See Board Policy 503.11 for the latest Graduation Requirements.

Click here for the complete Course Guide 2006-2007 in PDF format (48 pages, 596KB)

For individual sections of the course guide, click the appropriate topic below. Note: Sections overlap and may not start at the top of the page.
 

2006-2007 Table of Contents

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Preface................................................................................................................................................... i

Public Notice/Equity Statement.................................................................................................................. i

Board of Education/School Administrators................................................................................................. ii

Definition of Terms................................................................................................................................ iii

Concurrent Enrollment............................................................................................................................ iii

Kimberly Center East.............................................................................................................................. iii

Correspondence Study............................................................................................................................ iii

College Credit......................................................................................................................................... iii

Independent Study Courses..................................................................................................................... iii

General Information................................................................................................................................ 1

Class Load............................................................................................................................................. 1

Student Responsibilities........................................................................................................................... 1

Requirements for Graduation................................................................................................................. 1-2

Transfer Students................................................................................................................................... 2

Student Records Access.......................................................................................................................... 2

Postsecondary Enrollment Option............................................................................................................. 3

Business Education............................................................................................................................... 4-6

Business Career Academy (West High Only)........................................................................................... 7-8

Career and Technical Education........................................................................................................... 9-10

Internship Programs.............................................................................................................................. 11

Driver Education (brochure and application form Summer 2006)) .................................. ........................... 11

ESL (English as a Second Language).................................................................................................. 12-13

Family & Consumer Sciences............................................................................................................ 13-15

Fine Arts, Music............................................................................................................................... 15-16

Fine Arts, Visual Arts........................................................................................................................ 16-17

Industrial Technology....................................................................................................................... 18-21

Junior ROTC Program...................................................................................................................... 21-22

Language Arts.................................................................................................................................. 23-27

Mathematics.................................................................................................................................... 28-30

Miscellaneous Course Offerings.............................................................................................................. 30

Humanities............................................................................................................................................ 30

Leadership Training............................................................................................................................... 30

I-JAG.................................................................................................................................................. 30

Physical Education/Health Education................................................................................................... 30-31

Science........................................................................................................................................... 32-33

Social Studies.................................................................................................................................. 34-36

S.W.S. (School Within a School)............................................................................................................ 36

Talented and Gifted Program (TAG).................................................................. ..................................... 37

World Languages.............................................................................................................................. 38-39

Special Education............................................................................................................................. 40-42

Technical Colleges Admissions Requirements........................................................................................... 43

Community Colleges Admission Requirements.......................................................................................... 44

Trades Apprenticeship Program Graduation Requirements......................................................................... 44

University Requirements......................................................................................................................... 45

NCAA Course Eligibility Certification....................................................................................................... 46

Graduation Requirements Worksheet.................................................................................................. 47-48

 

 
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