SCHEDULING PROcESS

Academic Planning

A successful high school experience depends on setting and accomplishing a series of short-term and long-term goals. Academic planning is an important task that will help students achieve their future educational and career goals.

A four-year plan and yearly revision of this plan should be established to ensure that students will complete the courses needed to implement their post-graduation plans. The school counseling staff offers the following suggestions to students:

• • Thoroughly explore this website and ask your parents to review it with you.

  • Take time to understand your strengths and limitations. Discussions with teachers, parents, counselors, and employers help with this process. Look at your past academic performance as well as standardized test results, to help with goal setting and the course selection process.

  • Keep as many options open to you as possible. Choose courses that will help you strengthen your skills and knowledge, work on your weaknesses, and explore new interests and subject areas. Do not base your course selection on what your friends might think is best for you. Trust your own judgment.

  • Course selection is a very important task! Think carefully before registering and be aware that your present decisions will affect your future plans. Choose your courses with help from parents. Be sure you meet the prerequisites for each class that you select.

  • Be positive about each academic year. Many growth opportunities are presented to students. Those who are open to these opportunities will gain the most.

  • Make a commitment to put forth an effort to study and make good use of time. Develop a method for keeping track of assignments and projects. Plan a regular study schedule and stick to it. Students who use time effectively in and out of school will be able to gain the maximum benefit from each course and their high school experience as a whole.

  • Students interested in early graduation must meet with a counselor and fulfill the specific requirements outlined in the policy.

  • Students must be enrolled in a minimum of 5.0 credits per year. However, underclass students may only have an average of one study hall per semester, seniors may have two, and eligible seniors may have Senior Early Release/Late Arrival Privilege.

Scheduling Process

1. Counselors will meet with students in groups to discuss course selection and academic planning.

2.  Students and parents should utilize this website thoroughly and discuss course choices with current teachers. 

3.  Students will complete the Google Form posted in the Grade Level Information section of this website

4. Students will meet individually with their counselor to review graduation requirements, discuss course selections.

5.  Students and parents will have the opportunity to review course selections and make changes prior to the June 3, 2024 deadline.

6. Schedules will be released to students in August. 

7. All course offerings are contingent upon enrollment minimums and staffing availability.

Schedule Change Policy

Planning a schedule for the next school year is a difficult task, and situations may occur requiring a change in that schedule. Changes have a serious effect on class size, teacher assignments, and the overall master schedule. Thus, students and parents should NOT plan a program with the idea that it can be changed. Course changes may only be made through the Counseling Office prior to June 3, 2024.

Only the following reasons will constitute a need for a schedule change after this deadline:

   1. A technical error was made in the process of scheduling the student’s request.

 2. The requested course is not offered or in conflict.

 3. The student failed a previous course.

 4. The student did not meet the prerequisite for a course.

 5.  Senior English Course load is unbalanced.

If one of the previous conditions are met and a schedule change is warranted, changes will be made only when a parent and student have completed the online schedule change form found in each class Google Classroom. Any changes made after 5 school days of a semester may result in a withdrawal failure.  Changes will be made only if the master schedule can accommodate the request. No schedules will be changed if the result is the student having more than one study hall per semester with the exception of seniors. Changes are ultimately at the discretion of the principal, working with the school counselor.