Community Service Credit

    Work Experience Credit

A great way to become career & college ready is to participate in community service. There are many benefits for students to be engaged in service throughout their high school career. Because of this PAHS is excited to offer students who complete community service a chance to earn elective credit. Below are the requirements: 

1. Student must be enrolled full-time with 3 or more class periods.  Student must complete 61.5 hours of Community Service while enrolled.
2. Student must pass ALL classes with a “C” average or better.  Credit will not be issued until after grades have been verified. 
3. ​Qualifying hours are only when school is in session.  Therefore, the earliest period must be after the first day of the block and before the last day of the block(s).  Hours may continue into the consecutive blocks, credit will be applied to the block for the date of the last period.
4. Student must attach a log of what service they provided that day.
5. Student must attach a 1 page formal letter addressed to administrative staff of PAHS identifying how their community service was beneficial. Including any skills in which they may have learned or would have like to learned. This must be completed every block.
6. The student’s supervisor must rate the student on a 4.0 scale for performance and character of the student, using the form at the bottom of this sheet.  The student must score higher than 2.5 average to receive credit.
7. Student may not receive more than 0.5 credit per block, for a total of 2.0 credits of Community Service/ or Work Credit on their transcript.

Another way students can demonstrate career and college readiness to maintain employment as they successfully earn credit and progress towards a high school diploma. PAHS offers students who work an opportunity to earn elective credit. Below are the requirements. 

1. Student must be enrolled full-time with 3 or more class periods.  Student must work 128 hours while enrolled.
2. Student must pass ALL classes with a “C” average or better.  Credit will not be issued until after grades have been verified. 
3. Qualifying work hours are only when school is in session.  Therefore, the earliest pay period must be after the first day of the block and before the last day of the block(s).  Work hours may continue into the consecutive blocks, credit will be applied to the block for the date of the last pay period
4. Student must complete the listing of work hours and attach copies of all paycheck stubs to the back of this form.  Any stub not included cannot be counted. Year-to-date (YTD) cannot be counted.
5. Student must attach a 1 page formal letter addressed to administrative staff of PAHS identifying a workplace skill in which they are proficient in and why.  Also, they must identify two workplace skills they need to improve upon and why. This must be completed every block.
6. The student’s direct manager or supervisor must rate the student on a 4.0 scale for performance and character of the student, using the form at the bottom of this sheet.  The student must score higher than 2.5 average to receive credit.
7. Student may not receive more than 0.5 credit per block, for a total of 2.0 credits of work experience/or community service on their transcript. ​

Click here Community Service Credit Form 

Click here Work Experience Credit Form