Academic

Georgetown ISD has academic course offerings to prepare you for higher education experience and post-secondary success.  Once students begin their college experience or career, they need to feel confident that their schooling was more than adequate and prepared them for their futures: this is academic readiness, a crucial component for college and career success.  Our Counseling Services team is ready to support students in this effort.

Advising Guides are meant as a supplement and companion document to the official GISD Course Guide.

High School Advising Guide

Middle School Advising Guide

A Personal Graduation Plan (PGP) is a like a roadmap designed to guide students through the four years of high school and set goals for post-secondary education and career aspirations. Personal Graduation Plans outline graduation requirements, the courses students will take, and endorsements pathways in pursuit. Student plans are based on their interests - that’s why they are called “Personal Graduation Plans.”  These plans are fluid, meaning that they are expected to change over the course of high school.  High school counselors will meet annually with students to make adjustments and help students stay on track to meet their academic goals.  

GISD Roadmap to Graduation Site

The GISD credit guide helps counselors and families who are currently in GISD as well as transferring in. It outlines all the ways students can earn credit in our system.

GISD Credit Guide

Weighted / Rank GPA, cumulative GPA, and 100 Point GPA - Confused yet? Want to learn how they are calculated? Check out this tool, make a copy, and learn how to calculate your own GPA.

GPA Calculator

Whether you are a current GISD student or an alumnus, chances are you'll need to access your official high school transcript after graduation.  

Transcript Requests

GISD students have a variety of ways of engaging in advanced and Career Technical Education (CTE) course work that will prepare them for post-secondary success.  This includes opportunities to earn college credit while enrolled in high school as well as Industry Based Certifications (IBCs).  The links below provide more information and resources.  For a snapshot comparison between the Advanced Course work options, see the linked Comparison Chart.

Pre-AP and AP courses are designed to challenge motivated students and prepare them for success in college-level course work in high school and beyond. These courses move at a faster pace, are more academically challenging, require additional outside reading, including summer reading, and require more independent learning than on-level courses. 

GISD Advanced Placement

In GISD, students can earn high school and college credit through dual credit courses.  Students may enroll in dual credit courses offered through GISD during the school day/year.  Alternatively, students may take college courses outside of the GISD school day and request that these courses be recorded on the high school transcript if a GISD equivalent exists for the course.  For more information, see the GISD Dual Credit Guide link.

GISD Dual Credit Guide

Georgetown ISD offers students the opportunity to take dual enrollment courses.  Students who take these courses have the opportunity to earn both college and high school credits.  The dual enrollment opportunity is provided to GISD students through The University of Texas at Austin.

GISD On Ramps Guide

The Georgetown ISD CTE Department offers multiple programs and course sequences that provide students with coherent and rigorous content leading to a graduation endorsement.

The curricula for all CTE courses and programs integrate high-level academic concepts and industry standards to reinforce academic concepts of the State academic achievement tests and help students learn workplace competencies and certifications.   For more information about Georgetown CTE courses, please visit the CTE Department site.  

The course selection process starts in January and continues through the spring semester each school year.  During this process, students and families have the opportunity to learn about the required coursework and available electives in Georgetown ISD.  Students will choose their courses for the following school year before spring break.  Students will have the opportunity to make changes to these requests at course verification time in April-May.  

 In order to prepare for the following school year, and to ensure the accuracy of the requests, we only allow requests to be made on the course selection worksheet and/or the course verification worksheet, and we require a parent signature.  After these processes are complete, students may request a schedule change.  Schedule change requests must be made in writing, with a parent signature, within five (5) days of the start of class.  Requests may not be approved.

Requests for schedule changes will be approved for the following reasons:

1.  Error in schedule (This will be confirmed by a counselor and the course verification form.  If the course verification form was not returned, this request will be denied.)
2.  Student failure in prerequisite course
3.  Change in program (athletics, band, choir, orchestra, etc.)

A Petition  for  Advanced  Course  Exit  may  be  requested/ submitted  twice  during  the  school  year:    

1. Within  the 3rd   and 6th weeks  of  the  first  nine-week  grading  period  (to  begin in  an  on-level  course  within  the  first  nine-weeks); 
2. Within the  first  ten  (10)  school  days  of  December  (to  begin in  an  on-level  course  for  the  spring  semester).

To read more about the District Advanced Course Guidelines, visit the GISD Course Guide.