Early College Options

CONCURRENT COURSES OFFERED AT MPHS ● Ag Ed –Precision Farming Systems = 3 semester hours ● Family Consumer Science –Child Growth & Development = 3 semester hours ● Business –Fundamentals of Web Programming = 3 semester hours ● Business –Intermediate Computer Business Applications = 3 semester hours ● Business –Entrepreneurship = 2-3 semester hours ● Industrial Technology = Intro. Welding Safety & Health & Gas Metal Arc Welding = 3 semester hours ● Patient Care Academy = 12.5 semester hours ● Culinary Academy = 14.5 semester hours ● How College Works = 3 semester hours ● Exploring Teaching = 3 semester hours ● Statistics = 3 semester hours ● Additional off-site Concurrent Courses & Academies are available. Contact the School Counselor for more details.

Kirkwood College Credit in High School

Kirkwood offers opportunities for students to earn college credit while in high school at no cost to families. These courses are the perfect opportunity for students to get hands-on experience while gaining exposure to careers they want to pursue after graduation. All of the classes students take at Kirkwood are for both high school and college credit.

Students can earn college credit in high school through Kirkwood in a variety of ways. Options range from taking a class or two for transfer credit (within the walls of their high school, online or face-to-face at a Kirkwood location) to completing a sequence of courses in a Career Academy. Career Academies are packaged courses, offered at Regional Center locations, which focus on career exploration while also aligning with industry workforce needs. Students work through their high school counseling office or local Kirkwood Student Academic and Support Coordinator to find out what courses would be best for them and learn more about Career Academy offerings available.

POST-SECONDARY ENROLLMENT OPTIONS ACT (PSEO): The Post Secondary Enrollment Options Act provides an opportunity for assisting local school districts in expanding opportunities for capable students. The act was enacted in 1987 to promote rigorous academic pursuits and to provide a wider variety of options to high school students by enabling eleventh and twelfth grade students to enroll part time in courses in eligible post secondary institutions of higher learning in Iowa. Ninth and tenth grade students who have been identified as Talented and Gifted and any eleventh and twelfth grade students enrolled in public school districts can enroll in approved university, college or area college courses and receive credit that may be applied toward high school graduation. Post secondary courses, courses that are not comparable to