Locally Awarded Verified Credits

LOCALLY AWARDED VERIFIED CREDITS

The criteria for the award of locally-awarded verified credit is summarized below:

● To qualify for locally-awarded verified credits, a student must:

○ Pass the high school course;

○Score within a 375-399 scale score range on any administration of the Standards of Learning test after taking the test at least twice; and

○ Demonstrate achievement in the academic content through an appeal process administered at the local level

● For students entering the ninth grade for the first time prior to the 2018-2019 academic year:

○ No more than three locally-awarded verified credits may be awarded.

○ Locally-awarded verified credits cannot be applied toward an Advanced Studies diploma.

● For students entering the ninth grade for the first time in the 2018-2019 academic year and beyond:

○ No more than one locally-awarded verified credit may be awarded.

○ Locally-awarded verified credits can be applied toward either a Standard or an Advanced Studies diploma.

LOCALLY AWARDED VERIFIED CREDITS AS CREDIT ACCOMMODATIONS

The School Board may also award verified credits toward a standard diploma in reading, writing, history, science and mathematics to students with disabilities as credit accommodations for the standard diploma. To be eligible for such credit accommodations, students with disabilities must meet all criteria established by Virginia law or regulation and eligibility for such credit accommodations must be established in the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) or Section 504 plan. There is no maximum number of locally awarded verified credits that a student with a disability may earn toward a standard diploma.