GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS        

A graduating pupil must earn a minimum of 120 credits.  Those credits must include:

  1.   Four credit years of English. (20 credits)
*2.   Three credit years of Mathematics. (15 credits)
  3.   Three credit years of Social Studies (15 credits) including United States and New Jersey History as required          by N.J.S.A. 18A:35-1 and 35-2 and further including one credit year of World History and Cultures.
**4.   Three credit years of a laboratory Science including Life, Environmental, or Physical. (15 credits)
  5.   Two credit years of World Language, as a local district requirement. (10 credits)
  6.  One credit year of Physical Education, Health, and Safety for each year of enrollment, as required by        N.J.S.A. 18A:35-5,7&8.
  7.  One credit year of Visual and Performing Arts. (5 credits)
  8.  One credit year of Career education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills, or Vocational-Technical        education. (5 credits)
  9.  A half credit year in Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
      ( 2.5 credits) Class of 2014 and beyond.
***10. One credit year of Health, Family Life, and Substance Abuse, as a local district requirement.  (5 credits)

* Effective with the 2008-09 grade nine class, (graduating Class of 2012) each student will be required to earn five credits of Algebra-1 or its equivalent.  Effective with the 2010-11 grade nine class, (graduating Class of 2014) each student will also be required to earn five credits of Geometry or its equivalent.  Effective with the 2012-13 grade nine class, (graduating Class of 2016) and beyond each student will also be required to earn 5 credits of math that builds on the concepts and skills of Algebra and Geometry as part of the 15 credit math requirement.

** Effective with the 2008-09 grade nine class, (graduating Class of 2012) each student will be required to earn at least five credits in a laboratory biology/life science or its equivalent.  Effective with the 2010-11 grade nine class, (graduating Class of 2014) each student will also be required to earn five laboratory/inquiry-based credits in chemistry, environmental science, or physics.  Effective with the 2012-13 grade nine class, (graduating Class of 2016) and beyond each student will also be required to earn one additional five credit laboratory/inquiry-based science course.

***The local district requirement of one credit year of Health, Family Life, and Substance Abuse will be waived for students participating in Cedar Creek Magnet Programs effective 2010-2011.

These programs include all of the NEW JERSEY STATE CORE CURRICULUM CONTENT STANDARDS, as set forth above, by the Department of Education.