Get High School Diploma Free with Beaumont Library Scholarship!

With just a few clicks, you could be on your way to earning your high school diploma and jump-starting your career—for free!

Beaumont Library is offering motivated students full scholarships for the nationally recognized program, Career Online High School.

If you’re at least 19 years old, a resident of either Beaumont or Cherry Valley, and have a library card, you could earn an accredited high school diploma, a career certificate in fields ranging from health to homeland security, and be college-ready in just 18 months. The online program is a partnership between public libraries and Gale, a Cengage Company, which specializes in educational content, software, and services (www.careeronlinehs.org).

And right now, Beaumont Library has 17 scholarships waiting to be awarded. With a full scholarship, students save about $5,300 when they enroll in the Career Online High School program. Unlike typical scholarships, these awards aren’t based on income.

Remember, it’s never too late to graduate.

By clicking on the library’s website (bld.lib.ca.us), you could earn a scholarship just like Audra Amaya and Steve Stelter … and become one of our latest success stories!

Ready to graduate

At 31, Amaya is a married mother of two young daughters. She left high school in the eleventh grade and tried homeschooling and continuation programs for a while. But the programs just weren’t a good fit for her.

About a year ago, Amaya saw a Facebook post about Beaumont Library offering the Career Online High School program. She signed up, hopped on her laptop, and began doing her lessons and homework. By early this summer, Amaya will collect her diploma, a career certificate in office management, and explore taking some college courses. She’s interested in accounting, office management, and maybe even microbiology.

“Career Online High School is the best option for me,” Amaya said. “I’m actually completing my work and learning while really enjoying the online experience.”

Program overview

The program allows students to learn at their own pace as they take one course at a time while pairing with an academic coach and a coordinator at Beaumont Library. Students learn in an online environment available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Students may enroll year-round, and while they work at their own pace, the program must be completed in 18 months. About 75 percent of Career Online High School graduates attend either a two-year college or a four-year university.

Promise kept

Career Online High School students working with the Beaumont Library have many reasons for wanting to earn their high school diploma.

At 53, corporate executive Stelter has worked his way up the ladder—and is finally earning his high school diploma. He started as a tech for a company selling computers, ran the tech service department, and a decade ago joined the company’s management team.

Stelter has clearly had a successful career. But since his late twenties, something has always gnawed at him: he didn’t complete high school. So when he saw a Facebook post about Career Online High School, he decided to act and signed up.

“At this stage in life, it isn’t something that I have to do,” Stelter says about earning his diploma. “It’s simply a matter of personal growth.”

Like Amaya, he often studies at night and on weekends. Lately, it’s meant solving quadratic equations and figuring out the lengths and angles of triangles using trigonometry. Stelter has completed 70 percent of his work and also plans to receive his diploma early this summer.

So, if you’re ready to get started, log on to the Library’s website (bld.lib.ca.us) and scroll down to the bottom of the page. On the right hand side, you’ll see a link for the Career Online High School program. Students must complete an online Self-Assessment, enroll in a Prerequisite Course, and be interviewed for a scholarship at Beaumont Library.

If you have any questions, please contact Senior Librarian Lucy Sims at 951-845-1357 or email her at lucy.sims@bld.lib.ca.us

Your future awaits!

Beaumont Library, a California Special District independent of both city and county government, provides library services to Beaumont and Cherry Valley and is located at 125 E. Eighth Street in Beaumont.