Senior Year Plus
Through Senior Year Plus (SYP), high school students have a variety of options for taking college-credit courses while in high school. Enacted by the legislature in 2008, Senior Year Plus was created to provide increased and more equal access to college credit and advanced placement courses. Courses delivered through Senior Year Plus provide students the opportunity to take a rigorous college curriculum and receive, in many cases, both high school and college credit concurrently.
SYP Programs at Boone High School
- Advanced Placement
- Concurrent Enrollment: Courses on the BHS approved list taken through DMACC for both high school and college credit.
- Concurrent enrollment courses offered at BHS
- Career Advantage (Online and On-Campus)
- Career Academies
- Post Secondary Enrollment Option (through ISU): Go to website http://classes.iastate.edu for options
Eligibility: All students in grades 9-12 are allowed to participate in concurrent enrollment courses as long as they meet proficiency and prerequisite requirements. PSEO courses are allowable to all juniors, seniors and talented and gifted students who meet eligibility requirements. Charter, homeschool (dual enrollment) and nonpublic students are allowed to take joint enrollment courses through the public district. Nonpublic and dual enrollment students must meet proficiency and prerequisite requirements to participate. These students must be enrolled through the public district in order to be enrolled correctly.
Students must demonstrate proficiency in reading, math and science to participate in joint enrollment opportunities. Proficiency is determined by each student’s latest state assessment scores; however, every district has a secondary measure in which students may demonstrate proficiency through measures of college readiness. Each district and their community college collaborate to determine these measures, which could differ district to district. Students do not have to meet proficiency requirements in all three areas prior to enrolling in a college course. CTE courses do not have proficiency requirements to participate.
Credits & Transcripts: When participating in SYP programming, a student will have both a high school and college transcript. SYP courses WILL BE COUNTED as credit toward graduation. SYP course grades WILL BE CALCULATED into the student’s grade point average. All joint enrollment course grades must be entered on both the high school and college transcripts, regardless of the grade earned by the student.
Students should be aware that failed and withdrawn classes will negatively impact both high school and college transcripts. Poor performance in college-credit courses impact participation in high school sports, clubs and activities. Multiple failed and/or withdrawn classes may harm the student’s ability to receive financial aid and place them on college academic probation right out of high school. Participation in Senior Year Plus programming should be taken seriously with the requisite amount of time and effort put forth to successfully complete each course.
Students may re-enroll in the same course or enroll in any other college credit course even if they did not successfully complete a joint enrollment course previously.
Accommodations: Students with IEPs and 504s may take SYP courses just like every other student. Students and their counselor, will submit IEP/504 information to the postsecondary institution. It is important to remember that while accommodations are allowed for college-credit courses, modifications are not. Students will not be allowed modifications the district allows – even for those college-credit courses that take place within the high school.
Additional Details:
Students may enroll in as many courses as any full-time college student. The only limit is that which is set by the community college for full-time load. All Senior Year Plus programming is free to high school students including tuition, textbooks, fees, tools etc. Students do not have to pay for failed or withdrawn from joint enrollment courses. Failure to successfully complete a PSEO course will require reimbursement of the cost of the course by the student to the district.
BHS and DMACC are not required to have the same deadlines or follow the same calendar. Be aware that deadlines and course times may vary.
Students may opt to take college courses that have not been approved by the district. They may take them through any postsecondary institution, even out-of-state, but these courses would be the responsibility of the student to pay at full-tuition and for college credit only.
* Please contact Mrs. McIntyre for information on the registration process, scheduling, and other SYP advising.