Every Student Could Graduate with an Associate Degree from H.S.

Yesterday, I started crunching some numbers to see what a student in the 6th grade had to do in order to graduate from high school with two years of college. The strategy used below is based upon taking all 72 semesters worth of classes required by the public school system for grades 6-12, a 7 period day, and taking two classes every summer from IDLA. It does not include challenging classes that is allowed under Idaho law.

Vallivue school district has a plan in place that allows a high school freshman to finish high school with an associate degree by taking concurrent enrollment classes. This program does not begin until the freshman year which means that by taking summer classes and/or challenging some classes a student could finish high school with an associate degree even sooner. Here is the class schedule.


Total classes needed 72
7th grade 14 during school year 2 summer 56 classes remaining
8th grade 14 during school year 2 summer 40 classes remaining

9th grade 14 during school year 2 summer 24 classes remaining
10th grade 14 during school year 2 summer 8 remaining
11th grade
12th grade

All classes taken during the junior and senior year could count toward an associate degree or a professional technical skill by using concurrent enrollment. Concurrent enrollment is a class that counts both for high school credit and college credit.

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