POSTSECONDARY ENROLLMENT OPTIONS

(DUAL ENROLLMENT)

Students in the Swartz Creek Public Schools may qualify for enrolling in undergraduate courses in college level accredited institutions even as they are completing required and elective coursework leading to a Swartz Creek High School diploma.  This opportunity falls within Michigan’s public Act 160, the Postsecondary Enrollment Options Act.  Under this Act, Swartz Creek Public Schools are required to pay tuition and fees for high school students in grades 10, 11 and 12 who attend Michigan public or private, degree-granting institutions under certain conditions.  The purpose of Act 160 is to provide incentive for high school students to take course work at the college level and to pursue higher education after graduation from high school.  The following State of Michigan and Swartz Creek Public Schools-guidelines will prevail in determining which students qualify for dual enrollment.  Further, these criteria will determine qualifying students’ relief from tuition and specified fees through use of the district per pupil state aid fund.

ELIGIBLE STUDENTS

Dual Enrollment allows a student to enroll in postsecondary for high school credit or postsecondary credit or BOTH.  In order to take advantage of this option, students need to:

1.                    Be enrolled in at least one high school class.

2.                    Students in grade 10 who wish to qualify for dual enrollment in the 11^th grade must take the PSAT or PLAN test in 10^th grade and achieve the following minimum passing scores:  PLAN/ACT Assessment (Mathematics 18, Reading 17, Science 19, English 21); PSAT Assessment (Critical Reading 44, Writing 49, Mathematics 45).  Students in grade 11 may use ACT/MME qualifying scores.

3.                    Also, students may take courses in subjects which are not covered in the PLAN/SAT MME, such as history, political science, psychology, computer science, or foreign language courses not offered by the school, and fine arts programs as permitted by the district, as long as they have passed at least one section of the PLAN/PSAT/MME/ACT and district assessment(s).

ELIGIBLE COURSES

                1.             Students who choose to enroll in a college course after deciding not to take Swartz  Creek High School’s AP same subject course shall do so at their own expense.  Credit  will accrue to these
                                students for successfully completed work and the grade will transfer for such classes for GPA and class rank purposes.

                2.             The course is offered by the public school in which the student is enrolled but it is determined by the Board of Education to not be available to the student because of a scheduling conflict
                                beyond the student’s control.         

                3.             The course may not be in a subject area of hobby, craft, recreation, physical education, theology, divinity or religious education.

                4.             All other course eligibility questions should be discussed with a guidance counselor.

CREDIT

1.                    Eligible student may enroll in postsecondary for high school credit or postsecondary Credit OR BOTH.

2.                    Students will designate which type of credit they desire at the time of enrollment and shall notify both the high school and postsecondary institution of that designation.

3.                    Students may make different credit designations for different courses.

4.                    High School credits granted to a student shall be counted toward the graduation and subject area requirements of Swartz Creek High School.  Three or four credit college courses transfer to Swartz Creek as 0.5 credits.

GRADES

The grade earned by the student at the postsecondary institution shall transfer to Swartz Creek High School as the same grade.  These grades will count, along with Swartz Creek High School grades, in the computation of the student’s GPA and class-rank.