Features Outstanding Educators and Administrators
- 4 National Board Certified Teachers
- 4 Teachers with the SIUE Excellence in
- Education & Emerson Excellence in Teaching Awards
- 82% Hold Advanced Degrees
Highland High School Offers an Outstanding Curriculum for All Students!
HHS Curriculum includes:
- 4 years of ENGLISH including AP English Language Classes
- 4 years of MATH through AP Calculus AB
- 4 years of SCIENCE including AP Biology and AP Chemistry
- 4 years of SOCIAL STUDIES including 4 AP courses
- 8 Dual Credit Courses with Southwestern Illinois College
- 2 Dual Credit Courses with St. Louis University
- 11 AP Courses
- Diverse offering of electives in 9 additional departments including:
Acappella Choir | Industrial Education |
Accounting | Landscape Management |
Adult Living | Marching Band |
Ceramics/Drawing/Painting | Music Electives |
Child and Day Care Services | Parenting |
Computer Animations | Project Lead the Way-Engineering Program |
Computer Programming | Symphonic/Concert Band |
Computer Programming | Technology Lab, including Robotics |
Foods & Nutrition | Web Design |
Spanish | Welding |
Greenhouse Management |
HHS GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
Students must meet the following credit/course requirements to earn a diploma from Highland High School:
Graduation requirements are listed below:
- A total of 25 credits
- 4.0 English Credits, Including English I, II, and III
- 3.0 Math Credits (Illinois law requires 3 years of Math, including Algebra and Geometry)
- 2.0 Science Credits
- 1.0 U.S. History Credit, including passing the US and IL Constitution Tests
- 1.0 World History Credit
- 1.0 Art, Music, Vocational Ed, or Foreign Language
- 0.5 Health Credit
- One of the following courses to meet Illinois’ Consumer Education requirement:
- 0.5 Personal Finance Credit (junior or senior)
- 0.5 Economics Credit
- 0.5 AP Economics Credit (junior or senior)
- 1.0 Agriculture Business Management Credit (senior)
- 0.5 Civics Credit (Class of 2020 and beyond)
***PE (see note at that bottom)
*Take the required state assessment - Illinois’ graduation requirement.
The HHS School Counseling Department recommends that students complete the above requirements using the format
outlined below:
Periods | Freshmen | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
1 | English | English | English | English |
2 | Math | Math | Math | |
3 | Science | Science | ||
4 | World History | US History | ||
5 | PE/Driver’s Ed | Driver’s Ed/Health | PE | PE |
6 | Civics | Personal Finance | ||
7 |
Minimum college admissions requirements usually include: 4 English credits; 3 Math credits; 3 Science credits; 3 Social Studies credits; 2 credits of a foreign language, music, art or vocational courses. However, some colleges require more credits in one or more of these areas.
***Any HHS student in marching band may waive PE during a semester, or any student currently enrolled in
Health or Driver’s Ed may waive PE. Also, PE may be waived for juniors and seniors if:
- the student is on an athletic team during any season or
- the school(s) where a student is planning to apply after graduation, requires, for admission, a course in the student’s schedule (this course must exceed the state and local requirements for graduation).