Our school does a lot of dual enrollment courses through a local community college. The tuition rate is literally $5 per credit hour. S15’s 12th grade English class, his Spanish4 class, a Microsoft Business applications class, an Astronomy class, and an Advanced Bio class were all dual enrollment, and were accepted at his SUNY college for ~22 credits. The teachers all had to be certified to teach the college level class, and there were extra portfolios, exams, or projects required to obtain the college credit. These classes meant that he didn’t have to take Freshman English, didn’t have to take any foreign language (or even test out of the requirement), and had some of his general education natural science and his computer literacy credits out of the way. Plus he had some AP credits, too–he started college as a sophomore with 30 credits. So, it definitely depends on the classes and the colleges your child is applying to, but dual enrollment classes can be very useful.