Homeschool Dual Enrollment in California
California homeschoolers can take community college courses while in high school by applying directly to a college, which sets its own rules and paperwork for students still in high school.
How college courses work for homeschoolers
California's community colleges admit K-12 students as special part-time students, and each college district writes its own process. Expect an application, a parent's signature, and the signature of a principal or designee. For a home-based private school, the parent who runs the school signs as its administrator; Palomar College's procedure, for example, also asks for a copy of the private school affidavit.
Education Code section 76300 lets each college district's governing board exempt special part-time students from the enrollment fee, so the cost differs from one college to the next.
The credit appears on a college transcript, and your private school can count it toward the diploma you issue.
Before your child can enroll
Course rules
Your child meets each course's prerequisites or placement rules, and some courses also need a counselor's approval.
Enrolling in a college course
First step
Ask the admissions office at your local community college for its special admission form for high school students and its rule on enrollment fees.
What it costs
Books are the family's cost, along with any fee the college district charges.
When to apply
Turn in the special admission form before each term's registration opens.
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