Financial Literacy

One of the graduation requirements is for all students to complete a Financial Literacy Course.  There are a lot of different classes that can fulfill that requirement, but this tends to make the requirement a bit confusing.

All students grades 9-12 can take:

Economics and Financial Literacy - this class is a Social Studies elective course that will give you a SS elective credit and meet the financial literacy requirement.

Personal Financial Management - this class is a Business elective course that will give students an elective credit and fulfill the financial literacy requirement.

Independent Living - this is one of the Family & Consumer Science classes and it will give you an elective credit and fulfill the financial literacy requirement.

The cool thing about these classes is that they are all covering the same financial literacy standards, but the additional content and approach in the classes are different so that you can select the course which appeals most to you.

The state has changed the guidelines for students in the class of 2026 and beyond related to financial literacy so the following classes cannot be counted on to meet the Financial Literacy requirement for current 9th graders  and 10th and beyond, but do count for our current juniors through seniors:

Financial Algebra - this is a year long math class that meets the financial literacy requirements.

IB History SL or HL - Mr. Jordan currently addresses the financial literacy components within both the SL and HL versions of IB history. 

IB Business HL - Mrs. Kucharek currently addresses the financial literacy components in the HL version of the IB Business class.

As of this moment, there are a lot of questions on if the Financial Algebra or IB classes will be able to fulfill the requirements for Financial Literacy for the Class of 2026 and beyond, but if you are trying to plan now for what you will be taking in the future, the safest way to plan would be to anticipate taking one of the 3 classes identified that definitely can meet the Financial Literacy requirement.