• EARLY GRADUATION
     

    On very rare occasions, students will complete their graduation requirements in fewer than four years. If this occurs

    and a student wishes to graduate early, these procedures must be followed:
     

    1. Meet with student, parents, and counselor to discuss credits, future plans and responsibilities. Meet with student,
    parents, and principal in the spring prior to requested date of early graduation. Decision will be based on grades,
    attendance, behavior and future plans. If approved, no student will be permitted to graduate before the end of
    the semester.
    2. If approved, students must let their counselors know if they wish to go through commencement ceremonies. Early

    graduation is a serious concern. Approval will be given only after a thorough investigation of all factors.
     
    ACADEMIC ACCELERATION
     

    Academic acceleration involves individual subject acceleration, with the grade level of the student determined by the
    overall academic credit earned. Academic acceleration occurs when a student is not only doing the caliber of work
    necessary to be enrolled in that subject/course, but also demonstrates the ability to do the caliber of work required of
    students in the next course in the academic sequence. An acceleration evaluation committee will determine whether
    the student will be permitted to take a subject at a higher grade level or skip a course in the usual and customary
    academic sequence (i.e., individual subject acceleration). Any student residing in the District may be referred by a staff
    member or a parent/guardian to the principal of his/her school for evaluation for possible accelerated placement.
    Students may refer themselves or a peer through a staff member who has knowledge of the referred child's abilities.
    Upon referral, the student's principal (or his/her designee) shall convene an acceleration evaluation committee to
    determine the appropriate learning environment for the referred student. This committee shall include the following:

     
    a. a parent/guardian, or a representative designated by that parent/guardian.

    b. a gifted education coordinator or gifted intervention specialist, or if neither is available, a school psychologist
    or guidance counselor with expertise in the appropriate use of academic acceleration may be substituted.
    c. a principal or assistant principal from the child's current school.
    d. a current teacher of the referred student.
    e. a teacher at the grade level or course to which the referred student may be accelerated
    f. in the event that career-technical programs are considered for acceleration, a career-technical educator shall be consulted as part of the evaluation.