Graduation+Requirements

Students are required 23 credits to graduate. In addition, all students need to pass the PSSA and complete successfully a graduation project. Both the PSSA and the graduation project are done in the junior year.
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In a nutshell..here are course requirements.
 * 4.0 Credits English
 * 3.0 Credits Math
 * 3.0 Credits Social Studies (global 1, 2, 3)
 * 3.0 Credits Science
 * 8.0 Credits Electives, 2 which have to be from the Arts/Humanities courses
 * 1.0 credit of Phys Ed
 * 0.5 credit of Health
 * 0.5 credit of Information Technology

I get asked all the time, so please note there is no language requirement, no lab requirement, and no community service requirement for high school graduation. Please understand the High School graduation requirements are in no way equal to college entrance requirements!! What a post secondary institution wants you to have for admittance can be very specific. Some schools recommend languages/some require. Some require a B or better. Some require a lab science, some require an art credit. Some require the completion of Alg 2 and Geometry. As long as students are following the typical college prep schedule all 4 years (no senior year is NOT easier), then most schools are covered. It is ultimately up to the student to make sure all entrance requirements are met. This is one of the primary reasons to do all of your college searching and visiting throughout the junior year and the summer before you are senior!

To help a student understand how their schedule flows on a day to day, semester basis, use this matrix.