Indiana Administrative Code › Title 511 - INDIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION › Article 6 - DRIVER EDUCATION; GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS; NONSTANDARD PROGRAMS; HIGH ABILITY STUDENTS; POSTSECONDARY ENROLLMENT › Rule 7.1 - Graduation Requirements for Students Who Begin High School in the 2006-2007 School Year or a Subsequent Year › Section 7.1-6 - Core 40 diploma with academic honors

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 20-19-2-8; IC 20-30-5; IC 20-30-10-2
Affected: IC 20-30-4-2; IC 20-30-5-7
Sec. 6.
(a) To be
				eligible for a Core 40 diploma with academic honors, a student who enters high
				school in the 2006-2007 school year or a subsequent school year must complete a
				minimum of forty-seven (47) high school credits. Depending on the world
				languages option chosen, thirty-nine (39) or forty-one (41) of the credits
				shall be earned in the areas of study specified in subsection (b), and
				additional credits shall be earned from courses in these and other approved
				areas of study.
(b) Required
				credits consist of the following:
(1) Language arts
8 credits
(2) Social studies
6 credits
(3) Mathematics
8 credits
(4) Science
6 credits
(5) Health and wellness
1 credit
(6) Physical education I and II, adapted as necessary
2 credits
(7) World languages
6 or 8 credits
(8) Fine arts
2 credits
(c)
				Courses that may be counted toward the required credits prescribed in
				subsection (b) are subject to the following provisions:
(1) Only courses that officially have been
				designated as Core 40 courses may be counted.
(2) Language arts credits must include a
				balance of the following:
(A)
				Literature.
(B)
				Composition.
(C) Speech.
(3) Social studies credits must
				include the following:
(A) Two (2) credits in
				United States history.
(B) One (1)
				credit in United States government.
(C) One (1) credit in economics.
(D) Two (2) credits in world history and
				civilization or two (2) credits in geography and history of the
				world.
(4) The
				mathematics requirement is subject to the following:
(A) Mathematics credits must include one (1)
				of the following course sequences:
(i) Algebra
				I, geometry, algebra II, and two (2) additional credits in Core 40 mathematics
				courses.
(ii) Integrated
				mathematics I, integrated mathematics II, integrated mathematics III, and two
				(2) additional credits in Core 40 mathematics courses.
(B) The student is recommended to earn two
				(2) mathematics credits during the student's last year in high school. A
				student who takes mathematics in the senior year is better prepared for
				mathematics placement exams upon entering a postsecondary education program, an
				apprenticeship program, or the military. A student who takes mathematics in the
				senior year is:
(i) less likely to require
				remedial mathematics courses following high school; and
(ii) more likely to complete a postsecondary
				program.
(C) A student
				who enters high school prior to the 2012-2013 school year must earn either:
(i) two (2) mathematics credits; or
(ii) two (2) credits in physics; during the
				student's last two (2) years in high school.
(D) A student who enters high school in the
				2012-2013 school year or a subsequent school year must earn at least six (6) of
				the requisite eight (8) mathematics credits after entering high school.
				Mathematics credits earned prior to entering grade 9 may meet specific course
				requirements and may count towards the credit requirements for a diploma, but
				six (6) mathematics credits must be earned while in high school.
(E) A student who enters high school in the
				2012-2013 school year or a subsequent school year must be enrolled in a
				mathematics or quantitative reasoning course each year the student is enrolled
				in high school.
(5)
				Science credits must include the following:
(A) Two (2) credits in biology.
(B) Two (2) credits in chemistry, physics, or
				integrated chemistry-physics.
(C)
				Two (2) additional credits in Core 40 science courses.
(6) World languages credits must include one
				(1) of the following:
(A) Six (6) credits in
				Core 40 courses in a single world language.
(B) Four (4) credits in Core 40 courses in
				each of two (2) different world languages.