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However, further complicating the computation is the fact that American schools typically meet 180 days, or 36 academic weeks, a year. A semester (one-half of a full year) earns 1/2 a Carnegie Unit. [1] The Student Hour is approximately 12 hours of class or contact time, approximately 1/10 of the Carnegie Unit (as explained below).
The Carnegie rule is a rule of thumb suggesting how much outside-of-classroom study time is required to succeed in an average higher education course in the U.S. system. Typically, the Carnegie Rule is reported as two or more hours of outside work required for each hour spent in the classroom.
This credit is formally known as a Carnegie Unit. After a typical four-year run, the student needs 26 credits to graduate (an average of 6 to 7 at any time). Some high schools have only three years of school because 9th grade is part of their middle schools, with 18 to 21 credits required. [citation needed]
Sheffield High School awards an advanced diploma, a standard diploma, an occupational diploma, and a certificate of attendance. The advanced diploma and the standard diploma are awarded to students who acquire the required credits (Carnegie units) in a defined program and also pass the Alabama High School Graduation Exam.
Qualified sophomores, juniors, and seniors are eligible to take honors and dual enrollment classes. A student can earn 6 to 8 credits per year. A student must have 24 credits to graduate. Junior High School (grades 6–8) is also on the Semester System. Courses are taken for the full school year and are split into 45-minute classes.
That is for a full, 36 week school year. One semester would be 18 weeks with 0.5 Carnegie Unit. However, most schools don’t want to work with decimals, so they multiply everything by 10. So, for 36 weeks it would be 10 Semester Units; for 18 weeks would be 5 Semester Units. You could probably check with a high school registrar for additional ...
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The Central High School of Clay County, or Clay Central, is a public, 5A division school located in Lineville in east central Alabama. The school was opened in 2012 and is the largest school in the eastern region.