LPS Graduation Requirements

245 Credit Hours Required Minimum • General Electives: 62.5 • CTE (Career and Technical Education)/Fine Arts: 20 (Including 5 hours in

CTE & 5 hoursinFineArts) • Take Charge/Career Education & Personal Finance: 5 • Economics: 5 • English: 40 (Including 5 hoursofOralComm) • Human Behavior: 5 • Mathematics: 30 (Including 5 hourseachinAlgebra & Geometry) • Health: 2.5 • PE: 10 • Science: 30 (Including 5 hourseachin Earth Science,Physics, andChemistry; and10hoursinLifeScience) • Social Studies: 30 (Including 5 hourseachinCivics,Geography,Global

Studies,andGoPo;and10hoursinUSHistory) • Technology: 5

A link to the online High School Course Guild can be found on the Parent Center page of the LPS website at www.lps.org/parents. This guide provides complete course descriptions, as well as a list of courses that meet each specific graduation requirement.

Individual student progress towards meeting graduation requirements can be monitored through Synergy by selecting the Course History tab in both StudentVUE and ParentVUE.

Support to help your student plan a high school course sequence that aligns with his/her potential career interests can be found by visiting the LSW Counseling Center Website at http://wp.lps.org/lswcounseling/academics/.