NOTE:  Before reading the following, it is recommended that you read the
State of North Carolina Home School Information Packet.

Assigning the student's grade level:  While your child is enrolled in your home school, you may place the student on any grade level you desire and promote him/her as you wish at any time of the school year.  However, if at some point in the future the student enrolls in a conventional school, the principal of that school will then determine to what grade level the student will be assigned in that school and whether or not the student's home school transfer credits will be accepted.  Conventional school authorities are usually reluctant to advance a student:  (1) More than one grade level above his/her age peers; or, (2) to the next grade level if the student was removed during the latter part of the previous school year with failing grades in one or more subjects and then presented for re-enrollment at the beginning of the next school term.  A North Carolina conventional school (public or non-public) principal has no legal obligation to accept home school credit for students presented for enrollment in his/her school -- especially when the student is entering grades 10-12.

What happens if a gifted student successfully completes some or all high school level courses before reaching the age of a typical 9th grade student?  If the student will receive his/her high school diploma from the home school in which he/she is enrolled, the home school administrator may issue a high school diploma any time after the student turns age 16 (when North Carolina's compulsory attendance age ends) and has met the home school's graduation requirements.  However, if the student will later transfer in to a conventional public or non-public high school to earn a diploma there, the parent should especially require additional courses which would be transferable to that conventional public or non-public high school.  Also, read the above question and its answer; and then, see "Curriculum."
 

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