Dual Enrollment

Dual Enrollment

(Available to all high school students)

The Dual Enrollment Program allows eligible high school students to enroll in a college course creditable toward both high school graduation and an associate or baccalaureate degree or a career and technical certificate. Eligible high school students must be enrolled in a Florida public secondary school. Only students enrolled in post-secondary instruction that is creditable toward the high school diploma shall be classified as dual enrollment. Students who are eligible for dual enrollment shall be permitted to enroll in dual enrollment courses conducted during school hours or after school hours as determined by the School District. Any student so enrolled is exempt from the payment of registration, tuition, and laboratory fees.

The Department of Education adopted guidelines to achieve comparability across school districts of both student qualifications and teacher qualifications for dual enrollment courses. Students must:

• Demonstrate readiness for college-level coursework and must have a 3.0 unweighted GPA to enroll in college courses
• Demonstrate readiness for career-level coursework and must have a 2.0 unweighted GPA to enroll in career courses
• Achieve the minimum PERT, SAT or ACT scores as defined in the inter-institutional articulation agreement

Career and Technical Dual Enrollment

(Available to all high school students)

Fort Myers Technical College and Cape Coral Technical College provide advanced instruction for high school students who demonstrate an interest and readiness to engage in post-secondary certificate career prep courses. The technical colleges offer high school students who qualify for dual enrollment an opportunity to earn credit toward both a high school diploma and a post-secondary career preparatory certificate. Elective credits based on a wide variety of Career and Technical program choices are available.

Full-Time Early Admission

(Available to all high school students)

Early admission shall be in the form of dual enrollment when students enroll in a post-secondary institution on a full-time basis in courses that are creditable toward high school diplomas and an associate or baccalaureate degree. Students enrolled are exempt from the payment of registration, matriculation, and lab fees. This program allows students to enter college following completion of grade 11 (completion of grade 10 with special permission from the school principal or designee) and to substitute two semesters of college work or its equivalent for one year of high school, provided requirements for mastery of District performance standards and statewide, standardized assessments have been met.