The Farm School would like to help you find your own path to our high school diploma by:

• Coming up with agreements with you and your family about what you want to accomplish
• Helping you create a path to accomplish your goals
• Providing resources to help you accomplish your goals (including: classes, seminars, workshops, an internet home-base, learning coaches, project advisors, topic experts)
• Helping you keep a portfolio that shows your progress towards your goals

We believe that students should not be required to fit into a one-size-fits-all system. Yet most colleges and other schools require transcripts that list grades in classes in specified subjects with specified unit values. Students on a college path need to map their experiences onto a unit per course framework. This can be done in a number of ways.

Paths to The Farm School Satellite Campus graduation requirements

Portfolio Assessment

Students document their accomplishments and create an index that maps from specific learning objectives (e.g., understands that most common American health problems result from excess not deficiencies) into their work (e.g., a project including a personal health plan).

Real-Time Credit Accounting

Families can map experiences into courses as they occur. For example, a visit to the doctor for an annual check-up gets credited as 1-hour towards a 180-hour/1-credit biology class. Generally one credit is equal to 150/180 clock hours of study/activity in an area that would be the equivalent of a one-year course in high school. A half credit would be given for ~75 /90 hours or a semester-long high school course. The time spent in study/activity is not limited to time reading a textbook and taking exams. It can include anything the student does related to that academic subject.

Traditional Course Credits

Families can structure learning experiences as subject area classes that meet regularly for a specified numbers of hours. For example, crediting a self-paced biology class that a student participates in 5-hours a week for 45 weeks as a 1 unit biology class.

Grading scale

A (100-94)
B (93-87)
C (86-77)
D (76-70)
F (69-0)

Graduation Requirements