Christian Home Educators of West Virginia
High School Graduation Requirements
An important consideration of your child’s high school program should be preparation for the particular field of study that will be pursued, either at the college level, in a technical field, at a school of Fine Arts, in an apprenticeship program, or whatever other options may be available. If no further education will be pursued, preparation should focus on particular job skills.

  The courses you include in your child’s high school years will be in large measure determined by what is to come after high school. If you know (or when it becomes apparent) which school, college or university your child may want to attend, find out its entrance requirements. Each school has its own required high school units, and you can tailor your child’s high school program to maximum effectiveness.

  For example, if your child will be pursuing a field in mathematics or the sciences, he’ll need as many math or science courses as he can cover during his high school year. If your child is going into the Fine Arts area, higher math and science courses would not be a good stewardship of time and effort. Focus, instead, should be on courses that would develop particular skills in the area of study. Competitive colleges and universities choose students based on their college entrance test scores and their current abilities in their desired field of study. Schools of Fine Arts will want students who have some development in their particular interest area. Home educated students can have unique and individualized graduation components.

  Home educated students in West Virginia have no set graduation requirements because we are exempt from public school attendance and, therefore, its policy requirements. That’s also why we do not receive a public school diploma. However, if your child chooses to attend a college or university  within West Virginia, entrance requirements are based on graduation requirements for its public high schools. In that case, you would want to include the following courses of instruction as outlined in The Instructional Goals and Objectives for West Virginia Schools, published by the West Virginia Department of Education. These graduation requirements became effective for students entering grade 9 in the public schools in the 1999-2000 school year. The courses are generally typical of college entrance requirements across the country, although not identical.


English Language Arts
4 courses – English 9,10,11,12

Mathematics
3 courses – Two of the three credits will be
Algebra I and above. (Successful completion of the
objectives for Applied Math I and II is equivalent to
an Algebra I credit)

Science
3 courses – Science 9, Science 10, and one course
above grade 10: Biology,   Chemistry, Anatomy,
Physiology, or Physics, all with lab work

Social Studies
3 courses – U.S. to 1900,
World Studies to 1900,
and Twentieth Century

Physical Education/Wellness
1 course

Health
1 course

Career Majors
4 courses

The Arts Electives
1 course 4 courses

Method of computing GPA:
1 Numerical scale for grade points:
   A(4), B(3), C(2), D(1), E-F(0)

2 Compute extensions by multiplying grade points      
  times credits earned for each subject.

3 Add the number of credits.

4 Add the extensions.

5 Divide extension total by credit total.


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