My son is a sr in high school

[dm97fam]

TurboTax asks if he is "Working on an Associate, Bachelor's, or Graduate Degree?" He will continue on to a 4 year university next year and the credits from the community college will count toward his degree. But he is only taking one class per semester at the junior college and the rest of his classes at the high school.

[xmasbaby0]

The questions about whether he is a full-time student lead you into questions about tuition etc., in order to navigate you to education credits and entering scholarship income, grants, etc.  for college students.  If those do not apply to him while he is in high school you can skip going through that section.

[Hal_Al]

TurboTax asks if he is "Working on an Associate, Bachelor's, or Graduate Degree?"  You answer that question, no. Taking college level classes, in H.S., does not count as being a degree candidate, even if the credits will count later.

The ability of the parent of a high school student to claim the credit or deduction is limited.  If these courses are provided by an eligible college, this cost qualifies for the Lifetime Learning Credit (LLC). The school must have policy of granting college credit for that course, already taken, if the student ever enrolls there. In other words, it is a requirement that the course be a college credit course, even if the student isn't currently a college student. It’s not that  the student is post secondary, it’s that the course is post secondary. Books are not  a qualifying expense, unless included in the course fee.