Online Summer Courses
All students are encouraged to use their summer for healthy activities outside of school. If a student chooses to take a summer course, please remember:
- Taking online courses could have a direct impact on subsequent scheduling and sequence of courses for students all throughout high school.
- Students are not guaranteed the next course in the sequence if they take a summer course.
- Rising 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students may only earn 1 credit (1.0 or .5/.5).
- Rising 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students may only earn credits from FVA or GAVS.
FVA Summer Registration opens on February 2nd.
GAVS Summer Registration opens on March 1st.
CAUTIONS Regarding Summer Courses
- Intro CTAE courses for rising 9th grade students: Students who take courses, like but not limited to, Intro to Software Tech or Intro to Healthcare will not likely be offered the second year CTAE course as freshmen. Priority scheduling is to 10th-12th grade students in the pathway. Students cannot take AP Computer Science Principles at LHS in 9th grade. Students cannot take Diagnostics of Phlebotomy until their 11th or 12th grade year.
- CTAE courses for rising 10th and 11th: Placement into the next sequence course in the pathway is not guaranteed. Students can not be added to the course until verification of successful completion in late summer. At this point many of the elective courses are full.
- FVA Geometry A: Students will be place in Accelerated Adv. Algebra with Geometry B based on grade, but beware! Students often struggle in this accelerated class after taking a math course over the summer.
- GAVS Geometry A: Students will be placed in Geometry A support in fall and receive the Geometry B credit after successful completion of Geometry B in the spring. Students will NOT be placed into Accel Adv. Algebra with Geometry B.
- Geometry AB (full course): Students will be placed in on-level Advanced Algebra (Algebra II), NOT Honors Adv. Algebra (Alg. II). Note: Honors Adv. Algebra (Alg. II) is required for AP Precalculus
- Advanced Algebra (Alg. II): Students will be placed in Precalculus NOT AP Pre-calculus.
- Other Math Courses: Must meet FCS requirements to advance; click here for requirements.
- Chemistry or Other Science: GAVS/ FVA does not offer Honors Chemistry (or honors sciences in general), which is a pre-requisite courses to many of the AP Sciences. Rising 10th grade students may not take Chemistry online over the summer in an attempt to double up as rising 10th grade students or to add AP Sciences in 10th grade.
- Lit & Comp II (10th Lit): Students will be placed in American Lit, NOT AP Lang or AP Lit, if they take Lit & Comp II over the summer.
- Dual Enrollment Lit: Does not count as Lit & Comp II (10th Lit) and will not allow a student to move into AP Lang or AP Lit.
- Economics: Must be taken in 11th or 12th grade to count for graduation credit, only Personal Finance & Economics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, or DE Econ 1101 counts for graduation credit.
