Graduation Policy

Earning a Diploma

A student can only earn a diploma from a Green Dot school once he or she has done the following:

  1. Completed all graduation requirements with regards to classes and credits.
    1. Any student who has not met all credit requirements by the date of graduation must complete all units by the summer of his/her graduation year in order to earn a diploma from a Green Dot school. Otherwise, the student must take alternate routes to receiving a diploma from a non-Green Dot school.
  2. Passed both sections of the CAHSEE.
    1. A senior who has not passed the CAHSEE must be afforded three opportunities to take the CAHSEE in his/her senior year.
    2. Seniors who have not passed the CAHSEE must be placed in a CAHSEE intervention course until he/she passes both sections of the test.
    3. If a senior has not passed the CAHSEE by graduation, he/she must be afforded three more opportunities after graduation to pass the CAHSEE and must be enrolled in a CAHSEE intervention course at the school in order to be afforded these opportunities.
    4. If a student does not pass the CAHSEE after three attempts post-graduation, he/she is no longer eligible to earn a Green Dot diploma and must take an alternate route to earn a high school diploma.
  3. Paid all debts owed to the school.

Walking at Graduation

A student can walk across the stage at graduation only if one of the following is true:

  1. The student has met all of the school's graduation requirements with regards to classes and credits AND the student has passed the CAHSEE.
  2. The student is deficient 10 or less credits, has signed up to make up the credits the summer immediately following graduation, AND has passed the CAHSEE.
  3. The student has completed all graduation requirements with regards to classes and credits, has not passed the CAHSEE, but is signed up to take the CAHSEE the July immediately following graduation.

Diplomas will not be handed out at graduation. Students will be able to pick up their diplomas in the main office beginning in July only with verification of the requirements listed above.