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
Good day.
Please can you assist me with language arts free pdf high-school curriculum.
Is it available ?
Thank you
Vicki
Hi Vicki! Our free PDFs are for Language Arts Levels K-8 and Math K-6. The PDFs of our High School courses are available for purchase on our website. https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/choose-high-school/
When will math 7 be released? Can I pre order?
Thank you for your interest in Simply Good and Beautiful Math, Becki! We are happy to share that we anticipate that Math 7 will be coming in early 2024. Preorders are not available at this time. We invite you to connect with us via our newsletter and/or text notifications for all the latest updates and new release information.
Thankful that high school curriculum should be available before my oldest reaches high school! I hope you will choose to make it accredited if at all possible!
I am increasingly impressed with the quality of your curriculum—thank you! I would really love to see an accredited High School course!
Hello,
I have a 9th grader. We use your high school language arts course for her and really like it. She is in desperate need of a good math curriculum. Is there a math curriculum for high school you could recommend.
Thank you,
Lori
Hi Lori! We are so glad you and your daughter are enjoying our High School Language Arts courses. We are committed to offering homeschool math through Math 8. While we hope to offer high school math courses in the future, we cannot guarantee it. We know that children begin to diversify the math courses they take based on future careers, college, or other goals in high school so that may be helpful to consider as you evaluate the proper math course for your younger children.
You might find it helpful to know that we recommend that a student who completes our Math 6 program take a Math 7 course or pre-algebra the following year, however, Jenny Phillips and The Good and the Beautiful team do not recommend any specific math curriculum for grades higher than we offer. Jenny uses a variety of programs, using them in her own way. Customers who have children needing an upper level of Math will need to find another program. We hope you are able to find a good fit for your child’s needs. To help you in this quest, we have compiled a list of the top 10 most-searched Christian homeschool curriculum companies on our blog. https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/blog/christian-homeschool-curriculums/