Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 07:59     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

How old is your child?
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 07:24     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

If the dual enrollment coordinator at your HS is not responding, i would contact your child’s counselor for help.
It that gets nowhere, I would contact the principal or AP.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 07:03     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

The responses you are getting seem to be mixing information together. For Jumpstart to college you do not need your SSL hours finished, but Early College you are supposed to have SSL hours finished. The requirements vary heavily based on which type of Dual Enrollment you are considering.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 07:01     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

I think it is important to clarify that dual enrollment is the blanket term for any HS student taking a college course for HS credit. There are several version of this but it seems like you are interested in either Early College or Jump Start to College.

Early college covers junior and senior year and you work toward a pre-defined degree at MC as part of a cohort program. Jumpstart to college allows you to simply pick any classes you want. If you do Jumpstart to College MCPS only pays for a few classes per semester. If you do early college MCPS pays for all classes but they are largely selected on your behalf.

You have to apply to early college in the fall of sophomore year. Not sure what age your child is but that may influenced if that options remains open.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:59     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just homeschool.


I wish I could, but I'm a single mom and I need to be able to feed him.


You can’t homeschool but you plan for him to skip classes and go to the college for class? I think you’re missing the point here, if you designate yourself as homeschool he can take whatever classes he wants. He can do 2 classes at MCPS. If you can find a way to get him to college for DE you can find a way to homeschool.


NP. What you say is true but if OPs kid stays enrolled in MCPS, MCPS will pay for 5 classes per semester at MC. The kid will be able to graduate HS with an AA degree that OP did not have to pay for.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:57     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son will be doing the same. Here's what I've found out.

Your child cannot "just graduating high school at 10th grade". For MCPS to pay for MC dual enrollment courses, your child needs to be enrolled in MCPS. What your child can do is enroll in MC courses and MCPS will accept them for credit.

In order to qualify for dual enrollment, your child must meet the requirements for MCPS graduation. I believe the 75 SSL hour requirement has to be completed as well as having a 2.75 GPA. There maybe some other requirements as well.

Your child still needs to meet all the MCPS requirements in order to obtain their HS diploma. If your child still needs social studies, science, or completer requirements, they will need to select courses that meet these requirements. This is the dual enrollment cross reference spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10ioH1EHiOHwCyEZsm7caNYS_A5avqM23PWoKTFvW0tk/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0

They will need to take 2 semesters of English to account for English 11 and English 12.


Thank you. I know a MCPS student who graduated early at the end of her 11th grade year, and it didn't make a lot of sense to me, as then, since she's no longer a MCPS student, she'd have to pay for college vs getting it for free through dual enrollment, no? So, this doesn't seem like a smart path for us to take, but you don't know what you don't know, which is why I ask.

Thanks for the info. Yes, SSLs are no worries, as they'll be done by July.

He's in the accelerated curriculum for math, ELA, etc, but I want to be sure we're making smart choices for his electives. Thanks.


The kids I know that have graduated at the end of 11th have either gone onto a gap year program or off to a 4 year school. Their objective was to get out of town.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:56     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Anonymous wrote:There is someone at each high school in charge of Dual Enrollment. I'd reach out right away as summer is coming quickly. What high school is your child in and we can try to find the person.


Thank you. I contacted the high school rep via phone and email. Never heard back. I also contacted Montgomery College (all three dual enrollment reps) and all went straight to voicemail, never heard back. So, I'm here.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:56     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just homeschool.


I wish I could, but I'm a single mom and I need to be able to feed him.


You can’t homeschool but you plan for him to skip classes and go to the college for class? I think you’re missing the point here, if you designate yourself as homeschool he can take whatever classes he wants. He can do 2 classes at MCPS. If you can find a way to get him to college for DE you can find a way to homeschool.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:54     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Anonymous wrote:My son will be doing the same. Here's what I've found out.

Your child cannot "just graduating high school at 10th grade". For MCPS to pay for MC dual enrollment courses, your child needs to be enrolled in MCPS. What your child can do is enroll in MC courses and MCPS will accept them for credit.

In order to qualify for dual enrollment, your child must meet the requirements for MCPS graduation. I believe the 75 SSL hour requirement has to be completed as well as having a 2.75 GPA. There maybe some other requirements as well.

Your child still needs to meet all the MCPS requirements in order to obtain their HS diploma. If your child still needs social studies, science, or completer requirements, they will need to select courses that meet these requirements. This is the dual enrollment cross reference spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10ioH1EHiOHwCyEZsm7caNYS_A5avqM23PWoKTFvW0tk/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0

They will need to take 2 semesters of English to account for English 11 and English 12.
Also, thanks for the link! Great info.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:53     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Anonymous wrote:My son will be doing the same. Here's what I've found out.

Your child cannot "just graduating high school at 10th grade". For MCPS to pay for MC dual enrollment courses, your child needs to be enrolled in MCPS. What your child can do is enroll in MC courses and MCPS will accept them for credit.

In order to qualify for dual enrollment, your child must meet the requirements for MCPS graduation. I believe the 75 SSL hour requirement has to be completed as well as having a 2.75 GPA. There maybe some other requirements as well.

Your child still needs to meet all the MCPS requirements in order to obtain their HS diploma. If your child still needs social studies, science, or completer requirements, they will need to select courses that meet these requirements. This is the dual enrollment cross reference spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10ioH1EHiOHwCyEZsm7caNYS_A5avqM23PWoKTFvW0tk/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0

They will need to take 2 semesters of English to account for English 11 and English 12.


Thank you. I know a MCPS student who graduated early at the end of her 11th grade year, and it didn't make a lot of sense to me, as then, since she's no longer a MCPS student, she'd have to pay for college vs getting it for free through dual enrollment, no? So, this doesn't seem like a smart path for us to take, but you don't know what you don't know, which is why I ask.

Thanks for the info. Yes, SSLs are no worries, as they'll be done by July.

He's in the accelerated curriculum for math, ELA, etc, but I want to be sure we're making smart choices for his electives. Thanks.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:35     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

My son will be doing the same. Here's what I've found out.

Your child cannot "just graduating high school at 10th grade". For MCPS to pay for MC dual enrollment courses, your child needs to be enrolled in MCPS. What your child can do is enroll in MC courses and MCPS will accept them for credit.

In order to qualify for dual enrollment, your child must meet the requirements for MCPS graduation. I believe the 75 SSL hour requirement has to be completed as well as having a 2.75 GPA. There maybe some other requirements as well.

Your child still needs to meet all the MCPS requirements in order to obtain their HS diploma. If your child still needs social studies, science, or completer requirements, they will need to select courses that meet these requirements. This is the dual enrollment cross reference spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10ioH1EHiOHwCyEZsm7caNYS_A5avqM23PWoKTFvW0tk/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0

They will need to take 2 semesters of English to account for English 11 and English 12.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:28     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

There is someone at each high school in charge of Dual Enrollment. I'd reach out right away as summer is coming quickly. What high school is your child in and we can try to find the person.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:26     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Anonymous wrote:Just homeschool.


I wish I could, but I'm a single mom and I need to be able to feed him.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:25     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Just homeschool.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2025 22:20     Subject: MCPS - Dual Enrollment (Early Graduation)

Hey everyone, my son is interested in Dual Enrollment (where he finishes high school in grade 10 and gets his AA degree his 11th and 12th grade years, so he only has 2 more years to get his bachelors after he graduates high school).

#1 - Is there any benefit to just graduating high school at 10th grade as it seems to make more sense to do dual enrollment so his first two years of college will be free since he'll technically still be a high school student if he delays graduation until 12th grade.

#2 - Any tips on dual enrollment or early graduation (or any other similar program, as I see MCPS has a few, and I've called the college, high school, middle school, and elementary school, and no one is either returning calls or knows anything about dual enrollment to even answer my questions, like the difference in the programs)?

#3 - How do we determine the best class load to select each year so he's not wasting time with classes that won't work towards his goal of dual enrollment / early graduation?

Thank you in advance!