ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY

Southwestern Central School District has an eligibility program for all extracurricular activities. As per board policy, students in grades 9-11 involved in extracurricular activities must be enrolled in at least six (6) full credit bearing subjects in addition to Physical Education. Students in grade 12 must be enrolled in four (4) credit bearing classes. Southwestern Central students who participate in extracurricular activities are expected to conform to the academic standards which meet or exceed the requirements of the district and the NYS Board of Regents.

Southwestern Central adheres to an academic eligibility policy that all students must follow if they wish to participate in any school-sponsored extracurricular activities, including athletics.  Students in grades 7-12 will be required to maintain at least a 65% average in each of their classes. Every two weeks students who have below a 65% in one or more of their courses will be placed on academic probation for a two (2) week period of time.  During this two-week period of time, it is expected that student/athletes will stay after school for academic assistance in his/her failing course(s) on Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s until 3:30 pm so as to improve their course grade(s).  Student/athletes will still be allowed to participate in athletic and/or extra-curricular activities during this probationary period as long as they are working diligently at improving their course grade(s).  Student/athletes will remain on the probationary list until the next report is generated which is two weeks after the initial report is generated.  If a student/athlete is not working towards improving his/her grade(s), a possible suspension from that athletic team and/or extracurricular activity may result.