Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-6-3111

(a) Academically talented or gifted students enrolled in grades nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11) or twelve (12) in public or private high schools in this state may, with the recommendation and approval of the high school principal and appropriate higher education institution personnel, enroll in and receive regular college degree credit from a Tennessee postsecondary institution, if the student has a grade point average equivalent to three point two (3.2) on a four point zero (4.0) maximum basis and if such placement is a part of the student's planned Individual Educational Placement (IEP) as established by the multidisciplinary team process.