A person who is no longer enrolled in a public school and who previously failed to receive a high school diploma or was denied graduation solely for failing to meet the exit exam requirements may petition the local school board to determine the student’s eligibility to receive a high school diploma.
The South Carolina Department of Education stance on Home Schools.
"The South Carolina Department of Education does not accredit, endorse, support, or recommend any home school association. Students enrolled in a home school association will not receive a South Carolina high school diploma issued by the State Board of Education. If home-schooled students return to a South Carolina public school district, the district has the right to place the students in classes/grade levels which the district/school deems is instructionally appropriate for the students. In other words, because parents tell the district that the students have completed certain grade levels or courses, does not mean the students will be placed into the next grade level or course. (District instructional placement of returning home-schooled students is based on some type of test results that the district determines.)"
If a student is coming from a homeschool, charter, or private school setting, they will need to be tested to determine grade level (Grades 3 - 8) and/or transcripts evaluated (Grades 9 - 12).
Placement will be based on the student's score on the assessment and the equivalency scale score for grades 3 - 8.
For grades 9 - 12, grade classification will be determined based on the number of Carnegie units the district accepts. Home-school credits, however, are not automatically accepted by the Darlington County School District. Final acceptance of Carnegie units may necessitate the student taking State assessments in Algebra I, English II, Biology, and/or US History and Constitution, where the exam counts 20% of the final grade.
Students in Grades K-2 will be evaluated by Mrs. Kacy Keels, Director of Primary Education.
If a student has transferred to your school from another public South Carolina school district, you can submit a request to have their Enrich data (testing) transferred to our district. This does not include IEPs.
Once this questionnaire is completed, we (the District) will begin the process to have the data transferred.
Please note that this is not an immediate process, so please allow time for the transfer.
Early graduates are students graduating...
after only three years of high school or
mid-year (in January, instead of June, of their Senior year).
Students who participates in summer school, virtual programs and/or other district-identified opportunities may be allowed to graduate in less than four years if they have met the graduation requirements to receive a SC High School Diploma.
Students that have previously failed a course may be eligible for credit recovery through our online educational program, currently called APEX. Participation in credit recovery will not affect a student’s GPA. Should a student wish to modify his/her GPA, he/she should repeat the full course for credit and not seek participation in the credit recovery program.