Dual Enrollment

DUAL ENROLLMENT 

A program that allows eligible high school students to earn college credit while working on their high school diploma. Students earn post-secondary credit hours while simultaneously meeting their high school graduation completion requirements. 

House Bill 444 was signed into law by Governor Kemp on April 28, 2020. The bill made changes to the funding of the dual enrollment program. Please visit the Emanuel County Schools Dual Enrollment webpage on the district website for the most up-to-date information and resources for the program, or contact the school counselor.  

Due to the possible impact on high school graduation, students who drop post-secondary courses that are required to meet the Emanuel County Schools high school graduation requirements will be placed on dual enrollment academic probation for one semester the following term (fall or spring). Students will not be allowed to take any dual enrollment courses while on academic probation.

For post-secondary institutions that only provide letter grades to dual enrollment students, the following scale will be used to convert to numeric averages on the high school transcript.

A = 95                    B = 85                    C = 75                    D = 70                    F = 62

If students earn a letter grade of "D" or a numeric grade of 60-69 in a dual enrollment course, they will receive high school credit for the course. If the student is pursuing an Accelerated Career Diploma, a grade of C or better must be obtained in all dual enrollment courses per the requirements of the diploma. 

Dual enrollment students who fail one post-secondary course will be given an academic probation warning. Students who fail a second or subsequent post-secondary course(s), will be placed on dual enrollment academic probation for the following semester. Students will not be allowed to take any dual enrollment courses while on academic probation (fall or spring). Students who fail a course at the post-secondary institution, which is needed for graduation, will be required to take the equivalent course at the high school.

When eligible, the following dual enrollment courses will receive a 1.10 weight:

1. Core academic areas of English, math, science, social studies and world (foreign) languages used by GSFC to calculate the grade point average for high school HOPE scholarship academic eligibility taken through the Technical College System of Georgia and the University System of Georgia.
2. CTAE (career, technical, and agricultural education) courses which are aligned with GaDOE Career Clusters and Pathways.