Graduation Performance Academy

• The Graduation Performance Academy offers sessions throughout the school year and summer.
• It is a free, self-paced, virtual program that helps high school students recover any required academic credits toward graduation that they have not yet mastered.
• Students use Edgenuity, with the support of certified teachers from our school district to complete their coursework.
• Certified teachers are available to assist students virtually via Gmail, by telephone or Google Meet on Mondays through Thursdays 
• Students will also have access to a graduation specialist who can help with goal setting, the Edgenuity platform and other questions. The program is meant to be a credit recovery, and not a credit acceleration program.
• While students can set their own schedules to complete their coursework, in order to earn credits successfully, it is highly recommended that students commit to working at least 15 hours per week on their course(s).  
• Interested students should meet with their high school counselor and apply by each semester's advertised deadline. 
• Counselors will then meet with interested students to develop individual plans for what course credits a student needs.
• The legal, custodial parent or guardian will then be asked to give his or her consent. 

High school success and a student's path to graduation is not:

• “I got promoted to the next grade level” or
• “ I’ve gone to high school four years.”

High school success and a student's path to graduation is: 

“I am on track to earn 24 academic & elective credits to graduate.”

• 4 academic & 2 elective course credits freshman year
• 4 academic & 2 elective course credits sophomore year
• 4 academic & 2 elective course credits junior year
• 4 academic & 2 elective course credits senior year

If a student has not earned the required number of high school course credits due to either not mastering a course or for other reasons, he or she needs to recover those credits in order to stay on track to graduate high school in four years.

• Student transferred to a Bulloch County Schools high school from another district, state, or country and needs to earn credits o meet Georgia's requirements.
• Student did not successfully master an academic course at any time during high school and failed to make up those course credits
• Student is not on track to earn at least 24 academic course credits by the end of their senior year
• Student is currently in a credit recovery lab class and/or the Graduation Performance Academy and will not finish by May 22
• Student is currently failing an academic class and will not receive a passing grade this semester