Selecting Courses - Registration Process

SELECTING COURSES

Centennial High School sets its number of sections and builds its master schedule based on student requests for courses.  The initial registration early in the second semester determines the courses offered the following fall.  Once the master schedule has been determined, students who requested and who were recommended for Honors and Advanced Placement courses will be obligated to take these courses.  In other words, students will not be allowed to change their minds in the fall and drop down one level.

Registration Process:   Rising 9^th Grade

1.       CHS, along with the PTSO will host an evening orientation session for the parents of rising 9^th grade students. 

2.       CHS counselors meet at the middle school with 8^th grade students and their parents to register for next year’s classes.

3.       Students will receive their schedules in August prior to the opening of school.  Designated days are set aside for freshmen schedule changes.  These changes do not include changes within the same level for the sake of changing a teacher or obtaining a more favorable daily schedule, or changing a schedule in order to have a class with one’s friends.  See “Scheduling:  Change Requests.”   

Registration Process:   Rising 10^th, 11^th, & 12^th Grades

 1.         Counselors will distribute relevant materials and talk to students about their courses and the new offerings in the school. 

2.         Counselors then meet individually with students to confirm biographical information and to complete their requests for courses for the next year.  Four-year plans are revised if necessary.

3.       On the Signing Day, students must obtain teacher signatures for classes requiring teacher recommendations.  That night students must obtain parent signatures.  After all signatures are gathered, forms are returned to the homeroom teachers.  Students who do not return registration forms may not receive their desired course requests.

4.       Toward the end of the second semester, students who returned registration forms

will receive confirmation of requested courses.  At this time, students have their final opportunity to correct their schedules or to select different electives.

5.       In early August, all students receive their schedules.  At this time, only VALID schedule changes may be made.  Valid changes include updating course selections based on summer school credits or correcting a scheduling error made by the school.  INVALID changes include changing courses in the same level for the sake of getting a different teacher, changing courses for a more favorable schedule, or changing courses to have classes with one’s friends. 

Course requests generally must have a minimum of 12 students in order for a class to be created.                                                               

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