Credit Requirements
The passing grade to earn credit.
What is 65%?
This is the number of regents exams all students must take.
What is 5?
The score range for a general education student to appeal.
What is 60-64?
The diploma students earn when scoring a 65 or higher on their regents exams (or through appeal)
What is a regents diploma?
The number of credits required to graduate.
What is 22?
This is the formula for the 5 regents exams students take.
What is 4+1?
The score range for a special education or 504 student to appeal for a low pass?
What is 52-54?
The diploma type when the average of all required regents exams is 90 or better.
What is a Regents diploma with honors?
One credit of this is part of the graduation requirements.
What is visual art, music, dance and/or theater?
One of the regents exams that LCSD does not offer as an end-of-year assessment.
What is the Geometry, Algebra II, or Physics regents?
The score range for an ENL student to appeal?
What is 55-59?
The diploma type for Special Education and 504 students who 55 or better.
What is a local diploma?
Additional credit in World Language can be used as these.
What are elective credits?
What is English?
Scores between 45-54 are labeled as this.
What is the compensatory safety net?
The diploma type when a student earns 65 or better on 7 required regents exam plus 1 pathway.
What is a Regents with Advanced Designation?
These are the two 12th grade Social Studies courses that students take.
What are Participation in Government (Politics) and Economics?
The pathway option used in lieu of a regents exam.
What is the CDOS?
55% must be earned in these areas to be part of the compensatory safety net.
What are Math and ELA?
The diploma type when the average of all required regents exam (7 or 8 exams) is 90 or better.
What is the Regents with Advanced Designation with Honors?