Last Updated March 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 there is new information available.
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What are the current plans for high school?
We hear 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 May 2023 and February 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 an entire high school program with all core subjects and 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 wanted to release a full high school program all at the same time, but we have decided that it will serve you all better to release individual high school subjects as we create them. Thus, our high school program will not be released until at least 2027. It 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. The Good and the Beautiful Biology course will help teenagers 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 2025.
Math
Simply Good and Beautiful Math 7 is a full-year math course that we released in January 2024. A pre-algebra course is in development now with an anticipated Spring 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.
Homeschool Accreditation
We have been researching and exploring accreditation, and we are leaning toward 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
When will new history lessons be released? My son (and I😊) have thoroughly enjoyed the US Constitution this year and I have learned so much just teaching him!! I know your other history units/kits have been discontinued. We don’t want to do history with any other curriculum.
Hi Alana! We are so glad you and your son have been enjoying US Constitution and Government! Our updated History courses will not be released before summer 2025. We invite you to connect with her on our social media pages, YouTube, or via email newsletter or text alert to stay informed of any announcements. https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/connect/
Must the high school LA units be used sequentially (1,2,3…), or can they be used out of order? I am interested in tayloring the book units to match our history schedule.
What a neat idea! The high school language arts curriculum is set up in a way that it can work to take the courses in any order. However, not going in consecutive order will occasionally require students to watch videos or study foundational grammar principles upon which other principles are built. In these rare cases, the course will say something like the following sentence: “Foundational Concept Needed: To understand run-on sentences, you must first understand what makes a complete sentence. If needed, watch the video titled ‘A Sentence Needs Three Things’ on http://www.goodandbeautiful.com/videos before proceeding.” Because review and practice is vital to cementing principles, there is a lot of review in the courses, making it more feasible to take the courses out of order when needed.
I see that Math 8 (Prealgebra) is scheduled to release in Spring 2025. Do you anticipate an Algebra 1 course will be released in 2026? And more high school levels each year after that? I have two kids currently finishing up Math 6 and am looking forward to using Math 7 with them in the fall. Since Math 8 is releasing Spring 2025 it looks like it will also be ready for them for the following school year. I’m hoping there will be an Algebra 1 option to continue after Math 8. I’d hate to have to switch them to a different curriculum for high school when your math curriculum works so well for them. Thanks in advance for any insight as to when high school math courses are expected to release.
Hi Heidi! Math curriculum is a high priority for us. Because we are still working on our elementary Math courses, we do not have plans to release any High School math courses in the near future.
I am planning on homeschooling my son this year for 11th and 12th as he is following a 3 year highschool journey.
I wanted to know what sets would work together? I am looking for the least expensive way to go. Also, I had a question about how your curriculum works in the sense that I see that it coves english, Geography, grammar, art, geography and art history in the english sets. What other options do you have ?
Hi Sendy! We would recommend that your son start with our High School 1 Language Arts Course. The only other subject we have for high school students is our History. You can purchase our History Year 1 components individually in PDF. Currently, we don’t offer Math or Science for high school students.
Hi there! My 6th grade daughter LOVES your math curriculum and has been doing it for years. She’s ready for pre-algebra going in to her 7th grade year, but I noticed it’s not due to launch until spring of 2025 and we will need it in late summer 2024. Do you have any other recommendations for pre algebra curriculum that would fit well into what TGATB has offered OR do you need any student testers for the new pre algebra course? 🙂 I’m sure she’d be more than willing to accept that challenge! We’d be more than happy to give any feedback needed 🙂 THANK YOU!
Hi Aimee! We are so glad to hear that your daughter has been enjoying our Math curriculum! We do not have any recommendations for any specific math curriculum for grades higher than we offer. Jenny Phillips uses a variety of programs, using them in her own way. To help you in the quest to find one, 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/ Because our Math 8/Pre-algebra course is already in development, we are not accepting any new pilot families. We hope you find something to work for your daughter.