Last Updated December 4, 2024
As many of you know, we are busy creating and piloting many new courses for our preschool through grade 8 curriculum. But what about homeschool high school courses?
We’ve created this blog post to keep you updated on the status of high school curriculum from The Good and the Beautiful.
Updates will be posted here whenever new information available is available.
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What are the current plans for high school?
We understand your desire to continue with a good and beautiful education all the way through high school—we have high school students, too!
We appreciate your patience as we develop a solid, foundational curriculum for preschool through grade 8 before increasing our attention to developing complete, academically sound high school courses.
Language Arts
Our three full-year high school levels incorporate everything needed to meet high school requirements. By design, there is no High School 4 Language Arts course, as all necessary concepts are taught in the three language arts courses we offer.
Options for High School Year Four:
- Some 9th graders complete our Level 7 or Level 8 options because the courses are advanced, leaving High School Language Arts 1, 2, and 3 for 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. Note: Some states may not accept a Level 7 or 8 course for high school credit. Consult your local homeschool resources.
- Many students who complete all three homeschool high school levels before their senior year choose to take editing, creative writing, or college-level courses. These courses are not currently available from The Good and the Beautiful.
- Students often complete High School Honors Book Studies for in-depth literature study.
Watch our February 2024 and December 2024 videos with the latest updates about our commitment to high school curriculum.
More High School Courses
In addition to our rigorous high school language arts courses, we will be creating additional high school courses with several elective classes to prepare students to face adulthood and parenthood with faith, character, knowledge, and powerful skills.
You might be surprised to learn that less than 3% of our customers homeschool a high schooler. High school curriculum is much more expensive to create than K–8 curriculum, and it takes a lot more time and energy. Creating high school curriculum would not be the route to go if we were seeking products with the highest profits.
But our team at The Good and the Beautiful feels strongly that the high school curriculum we are creating is needed. It will enable parents to homeschool high schoolers and enable students to continue benefiting from good and beautiful educational materials.
So when is it coming?
Everything we do at The Good and the Beautiful is thoughtfully planned and of the highest quality. We have decided that it will serve you all best to release individual high school subjects as we create them. They will be worth the wait! In the meantime, our high school language arts courses are available.
Science
Wanting our high school science courses to be academically robust and easy for parents to homeschool high school, we’ve taken our time to figure out just the right approach. Our full-year Biology course will help teens see the beauty and wonder of science. We have spent years fine-tuning our high school biology course and we expect to release it in time for the 2025-2026 school year. Watch our December 2024 update for more information.
Math
Simply Good and Beautiful Math 7 is a full-year math course that we released in January 2024. Math 8, a pre-algebra course, is currently at the printers and we are anticipating a February 2025 release.
Students have two math track options after completing Simply Good and Beautiful Math 6.
- Move into Simply Good and Beautiful Math 7 to provide an additional year of solidifying math concepts before moving into a pre-algebra course.
- Move directly into a pre-algebra course.
When deciding, consider how successful your student was in Math 6 and how much your student enjoys math in general. It’s also important to start thinking about high school courses, your state’s math requirements for graduation, and your child’s future goals. If your student wants to pursue a math-related major, taking pre-algebra in 7th grade will allow him or her to take an additional math course in high school. Alternatively, a student who does not intend to enter a math-heavy field may prefer to take pre-algebra in 8th grade. Pre-algebra is most commonly taken in 7th or 8th grade, though some students take it in 6th grade, and others wait until 9th grade. There is no right or wrong decision. The choice is a personal one, but do consider future courses and your state’s requirements.
Use the High School Math Tracks chart below to help plan your student’s math courses through highschool.
History
Our History team is currently hard at work on writing, piloting, reviewing, and revising our new 4-year History courses for grades 3–8, which are expected to release in 2025 and 2026. Information on a high school level history program will be available at a later date.
Homeschool Accreditation
We will be offering non-accredited courses for our homeschool high school curriculum. This is subject to change, of course, but we will likely always have non-accredited options available if we later also pursue accredited classes. We will update information here as plans solidify.
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Comments
I would love TGTB to offer high school!
Hello Shannon! “We offer three High School Language Arts Courses. All the language arts principles needed for high schoolers (and more!) are covered in our High School 1, 2, and 3 courses. Thus, we will not have a High School 4 course. If children have completed High School 1-3, they can start college courses or take a high school writing course, editing course, or other language arts elective, which we do not have available at this time.
In addition to the Language Arts Courses, our current History Courses are designed to be taught family style and can be used for high school aged students.
Thank you for the update. This is actually perfect for our home. My middle child will be going into 8th grade soon and she’s ready for HS. I’ll have her do the three levels over 8th, 9th, and 10th grades and then she’ll be ready for college dual enrollment in 11th and 12th. Thinking out loud, basically- but maybe it will help someone else. Thank you!
Are there any more updates on High School Curriculum since this blog was written in February 2022? I have the text alerts but didn’t know if this would be updated this year so I can look into the following years for my current 6th graders. We love the good and the beautiful and cant’s wait to continue using it!
Thank you for your interest! You’ve reached the right place for High School updates! We are looking forward to sharing updates about our High School Curriculum, but do not have any additional information to share at this time. Visit us again soon for an update and be sure to sign up for our email newsletters and text notification if you haven’t already.
Will there be an update soon since this is about a year old? Just excited to see what is coming next. And really hoping to be able to use The Good and The Beautiful next year.
Thank you for reaching out about our High School courses! Updated information about our High School Curriculum has not yet been released. To receive a text message alert anytime this page is updated, please *text HIGHSCHOOL to (800) 600-2565.
I would love for your high school courses to be accredited. I’m sure that’s a rigmarole, knowing what that process can be like. However, TG&TB is the like heaven for a homeschooling parent. I am a trained teacher for over 20 years from K-college level and homeschooling for six years. I have literally tried just about everything at least once. The courses you offer are everything you say they are, beautiful, fun, interesting, content appropriate and more. I don’t see why your high school curriculum couldn’t be accredited as it satisfies the requirements of a typical high school program. I’m assuming it’s more hassle than it’s worth, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed in hopes that it is one day! Please keep up the fantastic work and don’t ever go away.
Thank you for your interest in our High School courses, Carole! We do not currently offer accredited curriculum or an accredited program. We are a curriculum company and not a school. We offer curriculum and resources for purchase that customers can then use to teach in their homes without any reporting or enrollment with The Good and the Beautiful. We hope you enjoy it!