For Driver Education classes, scroll to the bottom.
Request for Driver Eligibility Certificate (DEC), THIS IS NOT FOR ENROLLING IN DRIVER'S ED. DEC Eligibility is based on your most recent report card and current grades (you must be passing 75% of your classes), please consider this before your request.
When DECs are picked up, a parent or guardian must sign it and retrieve it between 9:oo and 15:00. Don't forget that NC has a law stating that your student must be passing 75% of their classes in order to be eligible for a NC Driver's License. The DEC is only valid for 30 days from the date when you signed for it at pickup, DECs are usually issued once per semester. This means that you need to have your DMV meetings scheduled.
Parents,
Please visit NCDMV and familiarize yourself with what you need to satisfy all of their requirements to get your child driving and to continue driving. Academic eligibility continues until the child graduates from High School or has obtained a GED. If you dropout or transfer to some other educational institute then the ability to prove your eligibility will shift with you.
Driving Privileges
In North Carolina, students under 18 can lose their driver's license if they:
Drop out of school;
Fail to make adequate progress;
Commit certain offenses resulting in suspension.
Dropout Prevention/Driver's License legislation
North Carolina House Bill 769 became effective December 1, 1997, and reflects a coordinated statewide effort to motivate and encourage students to complete high school. This legislation requires that a student's driving permit or license be revoked if a student is unable to maintain adequate progress or drops out of school. Adequate progress is defined as passing 70% of all courses and is determined by first semester grades and second-semester grades for schools on block scheduling. For schools on a traditional six-period day schedule, grades are determined by first semester grades and end-of-year grades.
In rare cases, there may be circumstances beyond the control of the student or his/her parents that qualify as a hardship. If a hardship exists, the student may request a waiver. If the waiver is granted, the student would not be affected by the legislation. Hardship cases are rare and are reserved for extreme situations. The Hardship Review Forms is available at your school or can be downloaded and printed from the link at right.
Lose Control, Lose Your License legislation
North Carolina Senate Bill 57, which became effective July 1, 2000, requires that a student's driving permit or license be revoked for one year if a student is given a suspension for more than 10 consecutive days or an assignment to an alternative educational setting for more than 10 consecutive days for one of the following reasons:
4. The possession or sale of an alcoholic beverage or an illegal controlled substance on school property.
5. The possession or use on school property of a weapon or firearm that resulted in disciplinary action under G.S. 115C-391 (d1) or that could have resulted in that disciplinary action if the conduct had occurred in a public school.
6. The physical assault on a teacher or other school personnel on school property.
School property is the physical premises of the school, school buses or other vehicles under the school's control or contract that are used to transport students, and school-sponsored or school-related activities that occur on or off the physical premises of the school.
Students who are at least 14 years old or who were rising 8th graders on or after July 1, 2000, are subject to this law. Students who are 18 years old cannot be charged under this law.
Unlike the "Dropout Prevention/Driver's License" law that only affects students under the age of 18, the "Lose Control" law does not stop at age 18. It is possible for a student to have his or her license suspended as a 17-and-a-half-year-old and not be eligible to drive for a full calendar year, reaching 18-and-a-half before again being eligible to drive.
Hardship Request Information
Frequently Asked Questions
The registration link for the next session of Driver Education will be here when it goes live at 6:00pm/18:00 (until full) on 14-May-2025. If there is not an active link below then you will have to wait until the Fall sessions (usually Classes occur in the last two full weeks of October). Please do not sign up for more than one session, if you got in then you should have seen that "your response was recorded" and you will get an email of your responses. I will shut forms down when they fill, unless there is some sort of hiccup. If there is a technological hiccup and I cannot cut off registration forms and the class overfills, students and parents will be informed the following day that they have been waitlisted. It is set up to record your email and it will only allow you to register using that email once, use your student email (NHCS email, it will cut down on any mix-ups with students that have common names).
Registration necessities because the form limits you to about 5 minutes to fill it out:
Student birth date and name (full legal name)
Student I.D. number that the county uses should be at hand, homeschool/private school students can just put 111111.
Student grade level
Parent/Guardian Name
Physical address (should include Street, City, and Zip)
Phone number for guardian and guardian email.
Student email must be their NHCS email, the only exception should be private/homeschool students.
Be able to answer these questions:
Is the student served by an IEP or 504?
Does this student have any medical/ physical/ cognitive conditions? (If yes, please describe the condition below. (ex: brain injury, visual deficits not corrected by glasses, muscle spasm/tremor, shortened or loss of extremity, etc.))
Things to consider after registering:
Students need to present their birth certificate to the instructor within the first two days of class
Students must be at least 14.5 years old or older on the first day of classes, 16-Jun-2025 (June classes) and 7-Jul-2025 (July class).
June Classes: Needs to have been born on or before 16-Dec-2010.
July Classes: Needs to have been born on or before 7-Jan-2011.
Students must attend all the days of class.
Students must complete the 30 hours of class, complete all assignments, and participate in all of the discussions/activities. If a student isn't participating then they will fail. If work is not completed when assigned, there is not a grace period to complete the work.
Any student dismissed from a class for not following basic rules or being disruptive will count as a failure and will not be allowed to continue.
After the student has been signed up they will have a fee ($65) that must be paid promptly, due by the close of business (Students, that is 5pm) about two weeks after registration. The due date for payment will be the 30th of May 2025, students will be removed if not paid at that time; we will not continue to remind you about payment.
The link to signup for DE classes below: (Link will be active at 18:00 on 14-May-2025 and will close when filled). Classes are in person on AHS campus (students cannot miss class sessions). The registration form will close after 24 hours if it doesn't fill. There are no other classes scheduled until the county schedules more classes. Fall 2025 class is tentatively scheduled to register on 10-Sep-2025 at 6pm.
Session #1: 16-Jun-2025 through 27-Jun-2025 8:00-11:00 (35 seats)
Session #2: 16-Jun-2025 through 27-Jun-2025 11:30-14:30 (35 seats)
Session #3: 7-Jul-2025 through 18-Ju1-2025 8:00-11:00 (35 seats)
Waitlist: Not available