Arizona · high school · 2026-2027 school year
Arizona homeschool graduation requirements, diploma, and transcript
Trellis has no step-by-step law page for Arizona yet. The state's own statute and agency sources at the end of this page are the primary references.
Arizona sets no state graduation-credit requirements for homeschoolers. The parent designs the curriculum, keeps the transcript, and issues the diploma.
The short version
- Who sets the requirement: the state's graduation rules bind public schools, not homeschools. The parent issues the diploma.
- The reference standard: the public-school minimum is 22 credits, and that table is the common starting point a transcript is read against; colleges set their own expectations on top of it, below.
- What colleges actually look for: the universities in the table below publish their own course expectations.
- What a transcript must show: courses by year, credits, and grades, kept by the parent, with the same subject headings the reference table uses.
- Across states: compare what 51 flagship universities ask.
The public-school credit table, for reference
Arizona's public-school diploma requires 22 credits. A homeschool is not held to it. It is shown as the reference a transcript is commonly read against. A recruited athlete also registers with the NCAA Eligibility Center, which grades home-school core courses against its own worksheet, separate from this table.
| Subject | Credits | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | Includes literature, writing, research methods, speaking/listening, grammar, vocabulary. |
| Math | 4 | Algebra I; Geometry; Algebra II; one additional advanced math credit. |
| Science | 3 | State rule requires 3 credits for proficiency; specific lab/subject split beyond that not confirmed in rule text. |
| Social studies | 3 | 1 credit American History; 1 credit World History/Geography; 0.5 credit American Government; 0.5 credit Economics. |
| Foreign language | 0 | No state diploma credit required; Arizona's public universities generally require 2 years for admission. |
| PE and health | 0 | Not separately mandated by the state; commonly required locally out of the 7 elective credits. |
| Arts | 0 | State combines arts with CTE into one 1-credit requirement; see other. |
| Electives | 7 | Distributed at the discretion of the local district or charter school. |
| Other | 1 | 1 credit of Fine Arts OR Career and Technical Education. |
Assessments in the public-school rules: Arizona Civics Test (U.S. naturalization exam questions) must be passed to graduate: 70/100 for the class of 2026 and later, 60/100 for earlier classes. These exams bind public-school students; a homeschooled student is not required to take them.
What Arizona colleges ask a homeschooled applicant for
AZ's 22-credit public-school list is one public reference point; homeschoolers are not required to use it. For university admission, ABOR's uniform 16-course competency list matters more than the diploma minimum.
Years of each subject. 0 means the university lists no requirement in that subject; a dash means it publishes no figure for it.
flagship University of Arizona
| Subject | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | 4 |
| Math | 4 | 4 |
| Science | 3 | 3 |
| Social studies | 2 | 2 |
| Foreign language | 2 | 2 |
| Arts | 1 | 1 |
1 year American history within social studies; ABOR allows admission with one deficiency in no more than two competency areas, never both math and laboratory science
These are the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) core competency requirements, not UA-specific; science is lab-based. University of Arizona requirements (source), checked 2026-09-01.
Arizona State University
| Subject | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | 4 |
| Math | 4 | 4 |
| Science | 3 | 3 |
| Social studies | 2 | 2 |
| Foreign language | 2 | 2 |
| Arts | 1 | 1 |
Uses the same ABOR-wide 16-course competency list as University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University. Arizona State University requirements (source), checked 2026-09-01.
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How Trellis checks your transcript against this table
In Trellis, the courses you plan and the work your children check off become the transcript as you go. The graduation card reads that transcript against the table above and says, subject by subject, what is earned and what is still open, and it notices a course filed under the wrong heading before a college does. Nothing is retyped at the end of senior year.
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