A Guide for SPHS Students to receive FREE Summer School for credit

The individual pieces of information provided here can all be found on the SPHS website, but it’s not easily stitched together.  We’ve put together this guide so that students and parents can fully understand all their options.  

What you should know:

• SPHS allows students to transfer in “No more than three (3) year-long outside courses”  from any WASC accredited school.  See SPHS Curriculum Course Catalog 2022-2023, page 11 “NON-SPHS COURSES’.’   If the course is also fulfilling an A-G college requirement the school should also be UC Certified 
• SPHS lists some schools where you can take classes, but your options are not limited to those schools.  Any school that is WASC accredited and allows “guest students” would be a good option, but we’ve listed two for you below.
• Two free schools include: Method and Opportunities for Learning (OFL). These are year-round charter schools and they welcome outside students over the summer as “guests” for their July term. 
• Just like SPHS, these schools are paid for with daily student attendance by the state of California, again, this is just like SPHS.   It is important to understand that you will still be a public school student and as such you cannot be enrolled in TWO public schools at the same time, so this has to be done over the summer and not concurrent with attending SPHS, you can’t overlap by even a day, so be sure to note on your forms that you’ll be at these schools at a time when SPHS is not even in session.
•  OFL and Method are both online schools and as such students who are good at managing their time are well suited for this option.  They do provide tools to help the student plan out and manage their time, but this is definitely different than going to in-person summer school.