Policies/Graduation Requirements

Policies

For school policies, please see the Student Handbook.

Graduation Requirements

The middle school program begins in grade 6. All students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades take courses in Bible, social studies, English, Science, Art, PE, Chinese or ESOL. The high school program begins in ninth grade and is administered according to a semester credit system. 24 credits of high school credit are required for graduation. One half credit is given for each full semester of a course successfully completed in grades 9-12. 

Required Course/Credits Required

Bible: ½ credit per semester enrolled in high school
English: 4
Social Studies: 3
Science: 3
Mathematics: 3 credits in Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2
Foreign Language: 2
Physical Education/Health: 2
Fine Arts or Music: 1
Electives: 4

Advanced Placement International Diploma (APID)

 An additional offering for students applying to universities outside of the United States is called the AP International Diploma (APID).  The APID helps a student demonstrate their willingness and ability to take college-level academic courses.

The Advanced Placement International Diploma (APID) is a globally recognized certificate for students with an international outlook. The APID challenges a student to display exceptional achievement on AP Exams across several disciplines.

Universities worldwide utilize the APID in admissions. AP teachers, counselors, parents, and their students may search our AP International Recognition database for universities outside the U.S. that acknowledge AP achievement. http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/intad.html

The APID is available to students attending secondary schools outside the United States and for U.S. resident students applying to universities outside the country.

The APID is not a substitute for a high school diploma, but rather provides additional certification of outstanding academic excellence.  

To earn an APID a student must earn grades of 3 or higher on at least five AP Exams in the following content areas:

1. Two AP Exams from two different languages selected from English and foreign languages. A student may submit a letter from an administrator at his or her school verifying the student's mastery of a language not currently available within the AP suite of exams. This verification, printed on school letterhead, will satisfy the requirement for ONE AP Exam in the language category. However, a student who utilizes this option must submit an additional AP Exam from another content area. Thus, all students, however they satisfy the two-exam English and foreign language requirement, must submit a total of five AP Exam grades of 3 or higher to qualify for the APID. [TIS offers AP Language and Composition, AP Language and Literature, and AP Chinese.  Students wishing to receive verification of another language, as mentioned above, will be required to take the SAT II in that language.]
2. One AP Exam designated as offering a global perspective. [TIS offers AP Government and Politics: Comparative.]
3. One exam from  he sciences or mathematics content areas. [TIS offers AP Calculus, AP Statistics, and AP Biology. AP Computer Science is sometimes offered as well.]  Calculus and computer science courses may each count only once toward the APID.
4. One (or two) additional exam(s) from among any content areas except English and foreign languages. These include the content areas already described as well as history and social sciences and arts. [TIS offers AP Studio Art.]*  

Students may always choose to take exams in subjects in which no AP course is offered. Exam fees are covered by the school for subjects in which an AP course is offered.  They are paid by the student in other areas.  Recognition from AP does not require that students actually take an AP course, but only that they achieve a certain grade on the exam (exam grades range from 1 to 5).  AP courses simply help provide students with additional challenge to prepare for such exams, and they show a higher level of challenge on a report card. While students planning to attend universities in the United States will not find the AP International Diploma useful, there are other valuable forms of recognition from AP.  

AP Scholar
Granted to students who receive grades of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams.

AP Scholar with Honor
Granted to students who receive an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.

AP Scholar with Distinction
Granted to students who receive an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.

AP International Scholar
Granted to the one male and one female student attending an American international school that is not a DoDEA school outside the U.S. and Canada.