Oklahoma · high school · 2026-2027 school year
Oklahoma homeschool graduation requirements, diploma, and transcript
Trellis has no step-by-step law page for Oklahoma yet. The state's own statute and agency sources at the end of this page are the primary references.
Oklahoma sets no graduation requirements for homeschoolers and issues no homeschool diploma; parents set their own requirements and issue the diploma. Colleges and employers decide individually whether to accept it.
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 23 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
Oklahoma's public-school diploma requires 23 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 | English I-IV or other approved course. |
| Math | 3 | Algebra I; Geometry; Algebra II or other approved course. Required in grades 9-12 |
| Science | 3 | Biology I; two additional sciences at or above Biology I rigor. Lab science category |
| Social studies | 3 | 0.5 Oklahoma History; 0.5 Government; US History; one other approved course. Listed as History & Citizenship |
| Foreign language | 0 | Not separately required; may satisfy the 1-credit World Language/Computer Technology requirement |
| PE and health | 0 | Not a separate required category; 2 elective units of PE/health are 'highly recommended' |
| Arts | 1 | Music, Art, Dance, or Drama, or Humanities. Listed as Fine Arts |
| Electives | 8 | 2 units of the same world language and 2 units of PE/health are 'highly recommended' within electives. |
| Other | 1 | World Language or Computer Technology (1 credit, excludes keyboarding/typing); Personal Financial Literacy Passport (non-credit); CPR/AED training (non-credit); U.S. Naturalization Test must be passed (non-credit civics requirement); Individual Career Academic Plan (ICAP); FAFSA completion or signed opt-out. Several non-credit statutory requirements beyond the 23 units |
Assessments in the public-school rules: Students take CCRA assessments (ACT with writing, Science, US History) in 11th grade; must pass the U.S. Naturalization Test as a civics requirement to graduate. These exams bind public-school students; a homeschooled student is not required to take them.
What Oklahoma colleges ask a homeschooled applicant for
Oklahoma's 23-unit public-school table plus the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE)'s statewide college admission curriculum (English 4, math 3, lab science 3, history and citizenship 3, plus additional units from the categories the Regents list) are the two published reference patterns. HB 3278, amending 70 O.S. § 11-103.6, phases in a new 23-unit structure for students entering eighth grade in 2025-26, the class of 2030: four units of mathematics including Algebra I and either Algebra II or Geometry, with the electives restructured; the table shows the requirements in force for earlier classes.
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 Oklahoma (Oklahoma State Regents' statewide college-prep curriculum)
| Subject | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | – |
| Math | 3 | – |
| Science | 3 | – |
| Social studies | 3 | – |
| Foreign language | – | – |
| Arts | – | – |
additional units from foreign language, computer science or technology, psychology, sociology, AP, or qualifying concurrent enrollment (the Regents' page lists the categories without a count)
Uses the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education's uniform college admission curriculum, which applies to all Oklahoma state-system four-year universities. University of Oklahoma (Oklahoma State Regents' statewide college-prep curriculum) requirements (source), checked 2026-09-04.
Oklahoma State University
| Subject | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4 | – |
| Math | 3 | – |
| Science | 3 | – |
| Social studies | 3 | – |
| Foreign language | – | – |
| Arts | – | – |
2 additional units from the same OSRHE-approved elective categories
Governed by the same Regents' curriculum as the University of Oklahoma; no OSU-specific course additions were confirmed and no OSU page is cited, so no recommended figures are shown. Oklahoma State University requirements (source), checked 2026-09-05.
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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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