Students must complete the required and elective credits to meet diploma requirements for one of the following diploma types:

• Core 40 Diploma

• Core 40 with Technical Honors Diploma

• Core 40 with Academic Honors Diploma

WHY? The courses you complete will prepare you for your future career, college, or enlistment to military service.

Demonstrate Employability Skills

What does this mean? It is important that while you are in high school you learn and develop skills that will help you succeed in a career you are interested in. These skills are things like being able to communicate and work with others, being on time and having good attendance, being responsible, learning to plan, learning to schedule, and finding solutions to problems, along with many other social and learning skills.  

WHY?  Having good employability skills will make you successful at anything you do after leaving high school.  These skills ensure you are ready for the workplace.  JCHS will give you several options for meeting this requirement.

Department of Workforce Development defines employability skills into five categories:  Career Mindset, Self-Management Skills, Learning Strategies, Social Skills, and Workplace Skills.

Meet Postsecondary Ready Competencies

What does this mean?  Postsecondary refers to the additional education or training options that you can select from after high school, such as apprenticeship training, military, entering a career training program, earning certification required for a specific career, attending a two or four-year college, or other options. 

WHY?  High school is that time when you learn about and prepare for a specific career area through the classes you take and the activities you participate in to develop your employability skills so that you can select a postsecondary option that is right for you.  

HOW? The Postsecondary Ready Competencies require that you demonstrate your preparedness for the next level of training after graduating by your preparedness through one of the following methods: Earning an Academic Honors Diploma, taking a college entrance examination like SAT or ACT, earning industry certification, taking the ASVAB for entering the military, completing specific career and technical education classes at JCHS, and/or earning credit in advanced placement or dual credit courses.