Credit Check for Graduation

Unit of Credit is a standardized measure of achievement devised and adopted by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to designate the quantity of work completed in individual subject fields.

In grades nine (9) through twelve (12), a student’s class standing is determined by the number of satisfactorily completed courses, including courses required of all students and the number of credits attained. 

GRADE 10 PROMOTION

At the end of grade nine (9), a student must have earned at least four (4) credits, with two (2) of the four (4) credits in core area courses, to be assigned to grade ten (10). 

GRADE 11 PROMOTION

By the conclusion of grade ten (10), each student must have earned at least ten (10) credits, with at least one (1) English credit and five (5) additional core credits, to be assigned to grade eleven (11).  

GRADE 12 PROMOTION

To be promoted to grade twelve (12), a student must have earned fifteen (15) credits, or fourteen (14) for students enrolled in Butler County Area Vocational Technical School, with nine (9) of the fifteen (15) credits earned in core area courses. 

A credit is based on the satisfactory completion of a course that has been offered for the equivalent of five (5) classes of at least forty (40) minutes for thirty-six (36) weeks.