Community Service
Community Service Requirement
Revised February 2025
For the Class of 2025 and beyond, the minimum requirement for Community Service is 10 hours of non-paid community service to be performed by students as part of their graduation requirements. In addition, each date of community service that occurs between 9th and 12th grade must be pre-approved by the History/Social Science teacher and documented on the SUHSD Community Service Verification Form. Community service hours must be submitted to the History/Social Science teacher for reporting. Hours that do not follow the district guidelines may not be counted for community service.
Students should not start any community service activity prior to receiving written approval from their Social Science teacher in order to ensure credit.
SUHSD Community Service Hours (Feb 2025)
Horas de Servicio Comunitario (Feb 2025)
Resources
Examples of what IS community service
● Volunteering with a non-profit community service organization
● Community service club activities (not meetings)
● Community service through Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts (not fundraising)
● Community service through a religious institution that is actively providing a service to the community.
● Political campaign activities
● Assisting with City Park & Recreation programs
● Assisting at Boys or Girls Clubs
● Helping at a hospital, convalescent home, or orphanage
● School-sponsored peer tutoring, after school hours or on weekends
● Weekend campus clean-up, beautification activities
● Helping with a non-profit community sports team
● Helping with sport events for younger children, refereeing, etc.
● Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, locally or abroad.
● Unpaid poll worker on Election Day (should be organized through school)
● Non-paid VAPA performances provided at community events
● Donating blood (2 hours of community service allowed and OK to be done during school hours if it is a school sponsored blood drive)
● Facilitating a Blood drive outside the school day
● Donating hair to an organization that makes wigs for cancer victims (2 hours of community service allowed)
● Facilitating a food or toy drive outside of the school day
● Sport Coaching or Management outside of the school day
Examples of what is NOT community service
● Sales of items for fund-raisers.
● Sport/Team management duties during the school day or for credit
● VAPA showcase performances for the school for class credit
● Facilitating a Blood drive during the school day
● Recycling/trash pick up during the school day/Saturday School
● Work often done by student aides, such as office, teacher, or library aides
● Service performed for a profit-making organization
● Work completed during regular school hours
● What would usually be considered normal extracurricular (or co-curricular) activities, such as sports, cheerleading, participating in school performance activities that are related to a class, ASB activities, etc.
● Working for an individual teacher (or teachers) such as grading papers
● Service where |he recipient is a family member or where a family member supervises the service
● Related to a class, credit for a class, or the making of profit, defraying costs of trips, etc.
● Receiving pay for the service
● Credit for the number of cans collected for a food drive, toys given, money collected, etc.