Graduation Requirements

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

1.  All students need to accumulate 120 credits for graduation.  To be considered a Class of 2025 senior and to participate in senior class activities during the 2024-2025 school year, a student must have earned a minimum of 85 credits.  Students who have not completed all their graduation requirements one school day after the last final examination will not be allowed to participate in the graduation ceremony.  (For junior status, a student must have earned a minimum of 55 credits; sophomore status - a minimum of 25 credits).  

2. Subjects and specific credits required for graduation:

English - four years (I, II, III, IV) 20 credits 

Mathematics - four years 20 credits

Science - three years 15 credits 

Social Studies - three years (including US I & US II)           15 credits 

Physical Education/Health - four years             10 credits 

Fine Arts or Applied Arts                 5.0 credits 

**Technology course                           2.5 credits

Community Service                                       140 hours

**The following technology courses satisfy the Technology course graduation requirement: Tech Essentials, Exploring Computer Science, Robotics, H Computer Science, AP Computer Science, AP Computer Science Principles, MHS Wildcat News, or Video Production.

3. Massachusetts requires all high school students to pass a series of standardized tests in English, math and science as a condition of graduation. The tests, called the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), have been phased in since 1993. 

In both English and Language Arts, students must meet or exceed the Proficient scaled score of 240 on the 10th grade MCAS tests, or meet or exceed the Needs Improvement scaled score of 220 on the tests and fulfill the requirements of an Educational Proficiency Plan. In science, students must score at least a scaled score of 220 on one of the Biology, Chemistry, Introductory Physics, or Technology/Engineering MCAS tests.

4. All students must schedule a program of study with 35 credits each year.

5. Course Credits: Courses that meet one period daily for the full year receive 5 credits; courses that meet  one period daily for one half the year (one semester) receive 2.5 credits.

6. Failure in courses required for graduation is a serious matter.  Such courses and the associated credits may be earned by successfully completing a MHS Summer Course, if available, or by taking and passing a comparable summer school course, or by taking and passing a comparable day-school or evening-school course (see the Director of School Counseling for approval) or by re-taking and passing the course at Milton High School the next school year (see your School Counselor).

Milton High School reserves the right to schedule students based on course enrollment, conflicts, graduation requirements, staffing, and other relevant considerations.