Graduation Requirements

Students Reminded to Carefully Monitor Credit Completion for Required Content Areas

Students and parents should carefully review TCAPS’ graduation requirements (Español) for their planned year of graduation. The Michigan Merit Curriculum requires a specific number of credits in content areas of Math, ELA, Science, Social Studies, Visual Performing & Applied Arts, and Physical Education.

In order to earn credits in content areas, students must successfully complete specific courses noted in the following chart. For instance, students need to earn three science credits by successfully completing required content in Biology, Physics or Chemistry, and one science credit. Additionally, TCAPS’ graduation requirements include 1.5 health and physical education credits in designated courses as noted below.

It is important that students and parents continue to monitor successful completion of required credits by content area because Michigan’s new graduation requirements do not allow for extensive class substitution across content areas. Students who fail a course will need to repeat the same content to earn credits regardless of whether the student has accumulated the total number of credits required for graduation.