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Curriculum

Rockbridge County High School is proud to offer a diversified curriculum of over 100 different courses that are designed to prepare students for the finest colleges and universities, for the highly technical workplace of the 21st century, or for post-secondary technical training.  RCHS is organized on a seven period school day, thus a maximum load (excluding marching band and/or evening classes) is seven credits per year.

Graduation Requirements

Standard Diploma Requirements:

*Option 1: Entering as a Freshman prior to 2010-2011.
*Option 2: Entering as a Freshman in 2010-2011 or after.

Subject	1: Standard Credit	2: Standard Credit	Verified Credit
English	4	4	2
Mathematics	3	3	1
Laboratory Sciences	3	3	1
Social Studies	3	3	1
Fine Arts, CTE or Foreign Language	1	2
Economics and Personal Finance		1
Health/Dr. Ed./PE	2	2
Electives	6	4
Student Selected Test			1
Total	22	22	6

Advanced Studies Diploma Requirements:

*Option 1: Entering as a Freshman prior to 2010-2011.
*Option 2: Entering as a Freshman in 2010-2011 or after.

Subject	1: Standard Credit	2: Standard Credit	Verified Credit
English	4	4	2
Mathematics	4	4	2
Laboratory Sciences	4	4	2
Social Studies	4	4	2
Health/ Dr Ed / PE	2	2
Fine Arts or CTE	1	1
Foreign Language	3 or 4	3 or 4
Economics and Personal Finance		1
Electives	2 or 1	3 or 2
Student Selected Test			1
Total	24	26	9

Advanced Technical Diploma Requirements:

*Option 1: Entering as a Freshman prior to 2010-2011.
*Option 2: Entering as a Freshman in 2010-2011 or after.

Subject	1: Standard Credit	2: Standard Credit	Verified Credit
English		4	2
Mathematics		4	2
Laboratory Sciences		4	2
Social Studies		4	2
Health/ Dr Ed / PE		2
Fine Arts or CTE		1
Foreign Language		3 or 4
Economics and Personal Finance		1
Career & Technical		3
Student Selected Test			1
Total		26	9

Grading Scale

Beginning in the fall of the 2011-2012 school year, Rockbridge County Schools will utilize the following ten-point grading scale:

Letter Assignment	Numeric Range	Spread
A Range	94-100	7
A- Range	90-93	4
B+ Range	87-89	3
B Range	84-86	3
B- Range	80-83	4
C+ Range	77-79	3
C Range	74-76	3
C- Range	70-73	4
D+ Range	67-69	3
D Range	64-66	3
D- Range	60-63	4
F Range	0-59	60

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