Bloomfield High School tailors an individual program for each student to meet his or her future goals. Students select their programs with the assistance of their school counselors and their parents/guardians.
BLOOMFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
4 YEAR GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
120 CREDITS TO GRADUATE
English/Language Arts Literacy –20 credits aligned to grade 9 to 12 standards
Math –15 credits including algebra I content, geometry content, and a third year of math that builds upon algebra I and geometry and prepares students for college and 21st century careers
Science –15 credits including laboratory biology; chemistry, environmental science or physics; and an additional lab/inquiry-based science
Social Studies –15 credits including World History, US History 1, US History 2 and integrated civics, economics, geography, and global content
Financial Literacy –2.5 credits in financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy
World Language – 5 credits
Fine/Performing Arts –5 credits
21st Century Life and Careers (Practical Arts) – 5 credits
Physical Education/Health/Driver’s Ed. – 20 credits
Students must take the NJGPA tests in English/LAL and Mathematics; if students do not attain passing scores in either or both area, alternate tests may be used to satisfy the testing requirement, including SAT, ACT, PSAT, ACT Aspire, Accuplacer, ASVAB or portfolio.
Note: testing requirements are frequently changed. To verify current testing requirements, please contact Mrs. Petrangeli at extension 4139.
Bloomfield High School follows the Board of Education 5701 on Academic Integrity
The Board of Education is committed to require a high level of ethical standards for students in the school district that include honesty and integrity in all aspects of their academic program. The Board expects all students to embrace the highest standards of academic integrity in all assignments. Acts of academic dishonesty by students will not be accepted. Students are responsible for complying with the provisions of this Policy and may be subject to disciplinary action for any violation.
Students are expected to be honest in their studies and academic work. Students shall not engage in any of the following prohibited acts that include, but not be limited to:
1. Plagiarizing term papers, themes, essays, reports, images, take-home examinations, and other academic work required of a student in their education program. Plagiarism is presenting work from another source without full acknowledgment that it is not their own work;
2. The deliberate use of false information or the falsification of research or other findings with the intent to deceive. Fabrication includes, but is not limited to, citing information not taken from the source indicated; listing sources in a bibliography that are not used in the project; fabricating data or source information in experiments, research projects, or other academic exercises; and taking a test for another person or allowing others to take a test for one’s self;
3. Providing false information to a teaching staff member in an academic assignment such as giving a false excuse for missing a deadline or falsely claiming to have submitted an assignment;
4. Cheating on examinations by any means and obtaining copies of an examination.
5. Preventing other students from completing their assignments including, but not limited to, removing pages from books, willfully disrupting the experiments or work of other students, misrepresenting the contributions of others in a group to give more credit to one particular student for one’s personal gain; and compromising and/or damaging the school district’s technology;
6. Using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in violation of Policy 2365 and the district’s AI Plan;
7. Selling, for any fee, or other remuneration, prepare, offer to prepare, cause to be prepared, sell or offer for sale any term paper, thesis, dissertation, essay, report or other written recorded, pictorial, artistic or other assignment knowing, or under the circumstances having reason to know, that said assignment is intended for submission either in whole or substantial part under a student’s name in fulfillment of the requirements for a diploma at any school or any educational institution in accordance with N.J.S.A. 18A:2-3.; or
8. Any other conduct determined by the Principal that compromises the academic integrity of a student’s work.
Any violation of this Policy shall be addressed in accordance with Policy and Regulation 5600.
A student may appeal a violation of this Policy in accordance with Policy 5710.
Students shall be informed of the conduct prohibited by this Policy at the beginning of the school year.
N.J.S.A. 18A:2-3
Adopted: 11 February 2025