Frenship Independent School District’s Off-Campus Physical Education (OCPE) program offers students in grades 7-12 the opportunity to earn physical education credits by participating in appropriate privately or commercially sponsored programs that meet district and state requirements. The OCPE programs offers schedule flexibility to students who are making serious attempt to develop higher-level abilities and skills in specific activities that surpass what the district can offer though general physical education curriculum.

Criteria

• Category I: Olympic-level participation and/or competition include a minimum of 15 hours per week of highly intensive, professional, supervised training. The training facility, instructors, and the activities in the program must be certified by the Superintendent to be of exceptional quality. Students in grades 7-12 qualifying and participating at this level may be dismissed one class period. Middle school students will only be released during the final class period of the day. Students dismissed may not miss any class other than physical education.

• Category II: Private or commercially sponsored physical education includes those certified by the Superintendents designee to be of high quality and well supervised by appropriately trained instructors. Student participation of at least five hours per week must be required. Students certified to participate this level may not be dismissed from any part of the regular school day.