Open Door Christian Schools

ODCS requires all students to meet state minimum standard requirements for graduation as well as all ODCS graduation requirements. Effective with the class of 2005, ODCS will require 23 ½ credits.

The following required courses will apply to the state of Ohio's minimum plus the ODCS requirements: Bible (3 units); English (4 units); Mathematics (3 units); Social Science (3 units); Health (1/2 unit); Physical Education (1/2 unit); *Science (3 units); Fine Arts (1 unit); Speech (1/2 unit); Electives (4.5 units). This totals twenty-one and one-half Carnegie units of credit. (Included is 1/8 credit of school/community service for each year enrolled in ODCS, grades 9-12.)

All students who plan to graduate prior to 2007 must pass all components of the Ninth-Grade Proficiency Test. Commencing with the class of 2007 students will be required to pass the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT).

Please download the Parent/Student Handbook for complete information regarding graduation as well as all aspects of attending theOpen Door Christian Schools.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Foreign Exchange students are periodically enrolled at ODCS. They are not eligible to receive a diploma.

ALTERNATIVE PROVISION FOR RECEIVING A DIPLOMA WITHOUT PASSING ALL FIVE OGT TESTS
A provision in state law originally enacted as part of Senate Bill 1 in 2001 is still effective. Since this provision includes a student’s high school attendance rate, it is important to share this information with your freshmen students. According to Ohio Revised Code Section 3313.615 (A), students may graduate and receive a diploma without passing all five tests of the OGT if they meet the following requirements:

• Pass four of the five tests and have missed passing the fifth test by no more than 10 points;
• Have had a 97 percent attendance rate through all four years of high school and must not have had an expulsion in high school;
• Have a grade point average of 2.5 out of 4.0 in the subject area missed and have completed the curriculum requirement in the subject area missed;
• Have participated in any intervention programs offered by the school and must have had a 97 percent attendance rate in any program offered outside the normal school day;
• Obtain letters of recommendation from each teacher in the subject area not yet passed as well as the high school principal.