Homeschooling through high school can be intimidating for families. Our hope at Capital Christian Homeschool is to help you feel confident as you enter secondary education at home.

While curriculum choices are flexible for homeschooling high school, we would like to keep things simple and hit Michigan’s graduation requirements.

Our dream is to have a full rotation of high school classes (other than math), allowing freshmen to enter and complete high school curriculum in a supportive and encouraging learning community.

While a full rotation of classes is our hope, we trust God to provide willing facilitators to make this plan a reality from year to year as He sees fit.

Below are the graduation requirements that we would like students to have the ability to complete at Capital Christian Homeschool:

English Language Arts (4 Credits)

Proficient Communicators allows students to cover college and career reading, writing, and speaking standards for high school.

Each year allows the student to dig deeper into these requirements in preparation for writing beyond high school. But these classes can be done in any order.

These classes can be listed on a transcript as:

• English Language Arts 9
• English Language Arts 10
• English Language Arts 11
• English Language Arts 12

Online Learning Experience

Through high school classes, students will gain experience utilizing a Google classroom.

Because ProCom (and likely other high school classes) will use Google Classroom, students can count these classes toward the online learning experience graduation requirement.

Health, Nutrition, and PE (1 credit)

This is NOT YOUR STANDARD HEALTH CLASS! Apologia’s Health and Nutrition class is a rigorous science curriculum. If you choose, you can count this class as both health and nutrition AND a science credit.

This curriculum touches on psychology, biology, human anatomy, and chemistry, laying a foundation for future science courses.

A small portion of this class is devoted to physical education, allowing students to implement concepts learned in the homework and to meet the PE requirement. 

We hope to offer this class to high school students every three years during science hour. It is a great option for students who have not yet completed Algebra 2 and aren’t ready for chemistry or physics.

You can list this on your student’s transcript as:

• Health, Nutrition, & PE
• Survey of Psychology, Biology, Human Anatomy, and Chemistry

Science (3 credits)

We would like to offer this rotation of science classes:

• Health, Nutrition, & PE (offered 2025-2026)
• Biology (offered 2026-2027)
• Chemistry (offered 2026-2027)
• Earth, Agricultural, Forensics, Environmental, or Marine Biology (offered 2027-2028)
• Health, Nutrition, & PE (2028-2029)

Social Studies (3 credits)

Michigan high school social studies requirements are: U.S. History, World History, and Government and Economics.

Government and Economics are one semester classes that we offer in the same year.

Because only three credits of social studies are required for graduation, we have room in our four-year social studies rotation to include career exploration and personal finance. Personal finance is a required high school class. Because personal finance and career exploration are both one-semester courses, they are offered during the same year.

The following rotation of classes covers the history and personal finance requirements:

• Government and Economics (last offered 2024-2025)
• American History (offered 2025-2026)
• Personal Finance and Career Exploration (offered 2026-2027)
• World History (offered 2027-2028)

Visual, Performing, and Applied Arts (1 credit)

Our hope is that we can have high school arts courses during the 4th period, which will rotate, covering visual, performing, and applied arts.

Since only one art credit is required for graduation, we may not offer a high school art credit every year.

• Worship Ministry (offered 2025-2026)
• TBA

World Language (2 credits)

As we are able, we like to offer language classes during the fourth period:

• Spanish 1 or 2
• German
• ASL

At Home

Students will need to complete 4 credits of mathematics at home to meet all the graduation requirements. 

As with other homeschool facilitated group classes, homework must be completed at home prior to class. Parents are still their students’ teachers and are responsible for assisting their students and monitoring work.

Grades are sometimes suggested by the facilitator for work done in class. It is the parents’ responsibility to record this and combine it with grades for the work done at home. This should then be listed on the student’s transcript.

Here is a sample transcript you can use.

Drop-Off

High school students have the unique option of being dropped off for classes. Parents must pay the required drop-off fee and sign the appropriate paperwork to take advantage of this option. 

Parents of drop-off students will also still need to monitor and facilitate the student’s work outside of class.