GRAD. REQUIREMENTS

Graduation Requirements

Class of 2005 and Beyond

 

Regents Diploma                                                                                                   Advance Regents Diploma
 

Required Courses

Credits

Required Courses

Credits

English

4

English

4

Social Studies

4

Social Studies

4

Math

31

Math

31

Science

31

Science

31

Foreign Language

12

Foreign Language

33

Art/Music

1

Art/Music

1

Health

.5

Health

.5

Physical Education

24

Physical Education

24

Sequence/Electives

3.5

Sequence/Electives

1.5

Total

22

Total

22


 

Required Exams

Required Exams

English Language Arts Comprehensive Regents (65 or above)5

English Language Arts Comprehensive Regents 

Regents Math A Exam (65 or above)5

Regents Math A  and B Exams

Regents Global Studies Exam (65 or above)5

Regents Global Studies Exam 

Regents U.S. History Exam (65 or above)5

Regents U.S. History Exam

Regents Science Exam (65 or above)5

Two Regents Science Exams

Second Language Proficiency Exam2

Regents Foreign Language Exam



 

1 A commencement-level course in Technology Education may be used as the third unit of credit in Mathematics or Science, but not both
2 Students who complete Checkpoint A and two units of study in a single foreign language no later than the end of grade 8 must pass the Second Language Proficiency Examination in order to earn one unit of credit toward the high school diploma.
3Students taking a sequence of not less than 5 units of credit in Art, Music, Business, Technology, or Vocational Education may substitute another 3 unit or 5 unit sequence in place of the 3 units of Foreign Language.
4all students must take and pass Physical Education during each semester of attendance, including Personal Challenge (grade 9), Healthy Lifestyles (grade 10), and four semesters of Lifetime P.E. (grades 11 and 12).  Each semester earns 1/4 credit.
5The RCT exam is available for special education students.

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