TESTING REQUIREMENTS

Performance standards on some tests are a component of high school diploma requirements.

• All students must demonstrate computer proficiency by passing the Computer Skills Test. This test is predominately given to students for the first time in the eighth grade. Students who do not pass the test the first time are given multiple opportunities in subsequent years to retake the test.
  
  
• For students entering high school for the first time as a ninth grader in 2006-07 or later, he or she must pass five essential end-of-course tests to receive a diploma:
  
  
  • Algebra I (unless exempted by their Individualized Education Program)
  • Biology
  • Civics and Economics
  • English I
  • U.S. History

Test of Computer Skills:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/testing/computerskills/