Diploma Types
Credit Accommodations/
Special Education Options
Verified Credits
General Graduation
Requirements
Graduation Credits
100

This is one of the two main types of diplomas available to students in Fairfax County.

Standard or Advance Diploma

100

These include substitute courses, waiving of requirements, and test accommodations to help students with disabilities.

What are credit accommodations?

100

These are the most common methods for earning Verified Credits.

What are End-of-Course SOL tests?

100

Specific graduation requirements are determined by this information. 

What is 9th grade entry year? 

100

26 standard credits are needed to attain this diploma type.

What is the Advanced Studies Diploma?

200

This diploma is available to students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) who fulfill their IEP requirements.

What is an Applied Studies Diploma?

200

Students with an IEP can pursue a standard diploma in Fairfax County until this age.

What is age 22?

200

Verified Credits are not required for this diploma.

What is an Applied Studies Diploma?

200

Regulation 2204 allows students identified as Multilingual Learners (ML) to pursue a standard diploma until this age.

What is age 22?

200

The amount of standard credits needed to attain a Standard Diploma.

What are 22 credits?

300

This option is for students who complete all coursework but do not earn the necessary Verified Credits for a Standard Diploma.

What is a Certificate of Completion?

300

An example of using a Part 1 course to meet core credit requirements.

What is a Standard Diploma with credit accommodations?

300

These are the two tests required in English 11 to earn Verified Credits.

What are reading and writing tests?

300

Parents must make this request no later than the end of the first nine weeks of the school year following completion of the course for a middle school student.

What is expunging a HS credit course?

300

For this Advanced Diploma graduation requirement, you have a choice of taking 3 credits or 2+2 to fulfill the graduation requirement.

What is the World Language graduation requirement?

400

Students with disabilities can pursue this diploma using credit accommodations.

What is an Advanced Studies Diploma or a Standard Diploma?

400

Credit Accommodations for the Advanced Studies diploma are only allowed for this graduation requirement. 

What is the world languages requirement? 

400

The amount of verified credits needed to attain a standard diploma.

What is 5 verified credits?

400

Any series of courses that are used to fulfill the elective requirements for a Standard or Advanced Studies Diploma in which the content increases or expands in scope and sequence as students move through the various levels of the courses.

What is a sequential elective?

400

The number of science credits and disciplines needed to attain an Advanced or Standard diploma.

What is 4 science credits in 3 disciplines for an Advanced Studies Diploma and 3 science credits in 2 disciplines for a Standard Diploma?