Graduation Requirements

Our requirements are designed to ensure that each George School graduate is well prepared both for college and for a lifetime of learning and service. They reflect our belief that students become creative, reflective, open, disciplined, productive, compassionate, and passionate adults by engaging in a broad range of learning opportunities, both in and out of the classroom, in the context of a spiritually grounded education.

They are designed to provide ample opportunity for students to develop the talents and interests of which they are aware and to discover and develop previously unrecognized ones. Finally, our requirements are designed to ensure that students will develop an appreciation for the many interconnected ways of knowing and being and will thus seek to integrate a wide range of perspectives on any issue.

George School’s graduation requirements are designed to ensure that students have broad liberal arts exposure in 9th and 10th grade as they:

Come to understand themselves as scholars, as young adults, and as individuals within the community
Gain exposure to potential new interests and a variety of ways of knowing.
Establish a strong foundation on which to build an 11th- and 12th-grade program specifically tailored to their interests.

Students are expected to earn 6 credits in each of the seven academic departments over the course of 9th and 10th grades.

Then, students must either:

Fulfill the requirements of the IB Diploma Program, or
Design their own 11th- and 12th-grade college preparatory program during which they earn at least 36 credits (not including sports and physical education), including at least 3 credits in Arts and at least 3 credits in Religions.

All students must also:

Include among their courses 3 credits in US History and 2 credits in Biology (typically done in 10th grade)
Fulfill the physical education/team activity requirements
Fulfill the co-op/service learning requirement

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10/2	Quinnipiac University Syracuse University Stevenson University
10/3	Rollins College
10/4	Trinity College Dublin Savannah College of Art and Design Johns Hopkins University The University of Tampa Washington University in St. Louis
10/5	Ursinus College The University of the Arts
10/6	Villanova University
10/9	Pace University (New York City) Davidson College William & Mary
10/10	Nova Southeastern University
10/11	University of Oregon Pomona College Smith College Queen Mary University of London Stevens Institute of Technology Hobart and William Smith Colleges
10/12	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spelman College
10/13	Hamilton College University of California (Davis)
10/16	Occidental College Grinnell College Lehigh University
10/17	Franklin & Marshall College
10/18	Christopher Newport University Union College University of Miami Colorado College Reed College
10/19	Marist College Haverford College Brown University
10/23	University of Rochester Emerson College
10/24	University of Pittsburgh
10/25	Providence College Bard College Denison University Brandeis University Bryn Mawr College
10/26	Clark University
10/27	Lafayette College
10/30	St. Mary’s College of Maryland The American University of Paris
10/31	High Point University
11/1	George Mason University Virginia Commonwealth University University of Scranton Bucknell University University of California (Berkeley)
11/2	Dickinson College
11/3	Alvernia University