Grade Level 5 of 8

High-School

Retrieve, pacing, pivots, and advanced tricks — practical skills with emotional bonding.

In High-School, dogs reinforce and proof basic commands and manners while expanding into more complex behaviors that enhance their ability to engage in interactive and cooperative tasks. This level focuses on building advanced tricks, emotional bonding, and practical retrieval skills.

The desensitization work at this level — children, sounds, and medical handling (taking vitals) — is what makes Partners-trained dogs comfortable in the real world.

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Who This Level Is For

Is High-School the Right Fit for Your Dog?

Dogs who have completed Middle-School and are ready for retrieve work, pacing exercises, and the desensitization curriculum that prepares them for kids, loud sounds, and vet visits.

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Every behavior, manner, trick, and tool introduced at this grade level — tracked individually in PD360 so you can see exactly where your dog stands.

Where This Level Sits

Your Progress at

Every behavior your dog learns is tracked in PD360 — our pet progress system. Watch how the curriculum builds level by level.

Total cumulative behaviors learned

Graduation Criteria

When Do Dogs Move From High-School to College?

Dogs graduate to College once they reliably retrieve and pace alongside their handler, and demonstrate calm tolerance during simulated medical handling.

PD360 Pet Progress

Every Skill at

Every behavior, milestone, and assessment lives in PD360 — our proprietary pet progress tracking system. The same record follows your dog across Group Classes, DaySchool, board-and-train Camps, private lessons, and grooming. One profile, one progress story, one team.

300+ Tracked variables per dog
8 Grade levels & curriculum tracks
120+ Behaviors across the journey
Years Of continuous progress data

Behavior-Level Detail

Every command, manner, and trick is tracked through Introduced → Reinforced → Proofed stages.
Programs Stay in Sync

Progress in Group Class flows into DaySchool, Camps, and private lessons. Trainers see the same record.
Honest Recommendations

Your dog moves up when the data says they're ready — not when a calendar says so.
Years of Continuity

Whether your dog is in Pre-School or Dogtorate, the full history travels with them.