The American High School Diploma.
GEO graduates earn the American High School Diploma with a full conventional transcript, issued by GEO's Florida-registered school. It is the standard United States school-leaving credential, read and understood almost everywhere.
A diploma's force comes from the standards of the school that issued it, its accreditation, and the willingness of the university or employer receiving it. That is true of every private school in the world.
Stated plainly, with nothing left out.
GEO is not yet accredited, and we will not pretend otherwise while asking you for a year of school fees.
GEO is designed to Cognia standards. Cognia is a mainstream United States school-quality accreditor with a network of more than 40,000 institutions across more than 100 countries. Accreditation is how a school's standards get checked by somebody other than the school.
Accreditation is a decision somebody else makes, so we will not promise you their answer or their date. What we will promise is that if it moves, you will hear it from us long before your child is anywhere near graduating.
We open at grades 6, 7 and 8. The first GEO class to graduate will do so in 2031/2032.
Starting with grades 6, 7 and 8.
About 1,000 students. These grades open first. If your child is in grade 6, 7 or 8 for the 2027/2028 school year, this is when GEO opens for you.
The full school. If your child will be entering grade 9 or above in 2027/2028, join the waitlist and tell us their grade, we will write to you the moment your year opens.
Eight subjects a year, chosen by grade.
Every year carries English, mathematics and a world language. Around them sit the sciences, physics, chemistry and biology; global studies, history and geography; and electives across the humanities, the arts and STEM. Every subject is taught every week, so nothing is dropped for half a year and picked up cold later.
Reading, writing, literature and argument, the foundation every other subject depends on.
Built strictly on prerequisites. Nothing left standing on air.
Each science taught as its own discipline, with practical work built into every lesson.
How the world came to be arranged the way it is, and how to read a source.
A full modern language taught every week.
Chosen from the humanities, the arts and STEM.
Every mark is read by a person. Every transcript is signed.
Every grade that reaches your child's transcript is decided by a qualified educator who has read their work. Day-to-day marking runs on the AI layer with a human audit over it.
Every transcript and diploma is signed by the head of school. There is a name and a face behind every mark.
Your child is verified before and during the sitting, the environment is monitored, and any recording is deleted within a month unless there is a specific reason we explain to you.
Before anything that counts, the school runs a full rehearsal under real conditions. No child meets an examination cold. Ordinary lessons are never recorded.
Preparation included. Not required to graduate.
Preparation for all three is available at no additional cost. In some countries it matters more than it sounds, in South Africa the diploma is only accepted alongside a test score. In those places a test score is not an upsell; it is the piece that makes the diploma usable.
Your child sits these examinations externally, under the examining body's own rules, at that body's own fee. GEO prepares them and guides you through registration. No test score is required to graduate from GEO.
A graduate leaves with three documents.
What happens next depends on where your family lives, a question we have answered country by country.
Where does the diploma work?
We checked country by country.