Welcome to 2026/2027 School Year 

Course Registration! 

Students entering ninth grade for the first time in 2021-2022 or afterwards must pass the following courses and earn at least 22 credits:

Students with plans to attend a 4 year college or university are highly recommended to take at least 2 levels of a world language and earn 28 credits. 

Four sequential English credits which shall be:

1. English I

2. English II

3. English III

4. English IV

Four Mathematics credits which shall be either:

1. NC Math 1, 2, and 3 and a fourth mathematics course to be aligned with the student’s post high school plans

Notes:  A fourth-level mathematics course is required for UNC minimum requirements, this includes Math IV,  Precalculus, and other higher level courses.  

Three Science credits which shall be:

1. a physical science course (physical science, chemistry, or physics

2. Biology

3. an earth/environmental science course

Four Social Studies credits which shall be:

1. Founding Principles of the United States of America and North Carolina:  Civic Literacy

2. Economics and Personal Finance

3. American History

4. World History

One Health and Physical Education credit:

1. Students are required to successfully complete CPR instruction to meet Healthful Living Essential Standards as a requirement for high school graduation.

2. Accommodations/alternative assessments for students identified by ADA or IDEA will be provided.

Two Elective credits of any combination from either:

1. Career and Technical Education (CTE) or

2. Arts Education or

3. World Language

Note: For clarification, possible elective combinations may include 2 World Language credits; or 1 CTE credit and 1 Arts Education credit; or 2 CTE credits; or 1 Arts Education credit and 1 World Language credit; or other combinations from a, b and c. 

Four Elective credits from the following (four-course concentration recommended):

1. Career and Technical Education (CTE) Level 1 and 2 of same subject

2. Arts Education (e.g., dance, music, theater arts, visual arts) Level 1 and 2 of the same subject plus two more  fine arts

3. Physical Education - Freshman Health and PE plus 3 other physical education courses

4. Any other subject area or cross-disciplinary courses (e.g., mathematics, science, social studies, English and dual enrollment courses) {two courses above what is required)

NOTE:   Beginning in fall 2022, students entering Grade 6 and subsequently entering Grade 9 for the first time in 2025-26 shall have at least one arts education course in grades 6-12. 

1. Students must complete the standard course of study (no local electives) for a given arts education course in its entirety to satisfy this requirement.  After-school activities or partial courses do not fulfill this graduation requirement. 

2. Students who transfer into a public school unit beginning in the ninth grade or later may be exempt, if such a requirement would prevent a student from graduating with the graduation cohort to which the student was assigned when transferring.

  Students entering Grade 9 in 2026-27 will have an additional requirement to take a credit in Computer Science.  Electives will be reduced from 6 to 5. More information regarding these options will develop as courses are added to fill the requirement. 

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