Students must complete all three components of graduation pathways to graduate.

Box 1: High School Diploma (Core 40, Academic Honors, or Technical Honors)

Box 2: Employability Skills (Choose one below)

Project-Based Learning: Working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.  Students engage in a rigorous, extended process of asking questions, finding resources, and applying information.  This can include completion of a research project, course capstone, or another experience as approved by the State Board of Education.

Service-Based Learning: Integrates meaningful service to enrich and apply academic knowledge, teach civic and personal responsibility, and strengthen communities.  This can include participation in a meaningful volunteer or civic engagement experience, engagement in a school-based activity, such as a co-curricular or extracurricular activity or sport for at least one academic year, or another experience as approved by the State Board of Education.

Work-Based Learning: Reinforces academic, technical, and social skills learned in the classroom through collaborative activities with employer partners, allowing students to apply classroom theories to practical problems, explore career options, and pursue personal and professional goals.  This can include completion of a course capstone, completion of an internship, employment outside of the school day, or another experience as approved by the State Board of Education.

Box 3: Postsecondary Readiness Competencies (Choose one below)

• Academic or Technical Honors Diploma

• 3 AP/IB/Dual Credit Classes (C average, at least 1 in core area or all 3 in career pathway)

• CTE Concentrator (C average in all three required courses in sequence)

• Locally Created Pathway: Fine Arts Pathway, Connecting English Learners to Successful Employment, or Evolution Towards Employability

• ACT Exam (18 on English or 22 on Reading AND 22 on Math or 23 on Science)

• SAT Exam (480 English AND 530 Math)

• ASVAB Exam (31 or higher) - must sign intent to enlist form

• Industry Recognized Certification