What is forecasting?

"Forecasting" is the term we use for the process of choosing and requesting your classes for next year. Forecasting happens in the late winter/early spring and looks slightly different for each grade, but overall you will use this site and conversations with your current teachers, counselor, and family to decide which classes you would like to take next year. After that you will officially request those classes in StudentVUE.

When is forecasting?

If you will be in 9th grade next year, you will choose your classes on our Google Form, and then you will officially request your classes using StudentVUE if you are in 8th grade at Sky View Middle School, Pilot Butte Middle School, or High Desert Middle School. Students at other middle schools will use the Google Form but not StudentVUE. Forecasting for 9th grade will happen in late winter/early spring.

If you will be in 10th grade next year, you will forecast in StudentVUE during your Freshman Foundations class in late winter/early spring.

If you will be in 11th or 12th grade next year, you will forecast in StudentVUE before your counselor meets with you individually in late winter/early spring.

Current students will have the opportunity to attend the MVHS Course Fair this winter.

Why is forecasting important?

Forecasting is one of the most important things you will do at MVHS. It allows you to shape your high school academic experience.

When you request the classes you want during the forecasting process, we know we need to plan space for you in those courses. We use your course requests to build the master schedule (the daily schedule of classes) in a way that gives you the best chance of taking all of your first-choice courses next year. Your course requests even tell us how many teachers we need for each class.

Every  student must request courses during forecasting. If you don't request courses, we can't plan space for you in the classes you want.  In fact, if you don't request courses before forecasting ends, your counselor will request courses for you based on your graduation requirements. That means you'll get classes you need to stay on track to graduate, but they might not be the classes you would have chosen for yourself  to meet those requirements. Forecasting gives you a voice in planning your education.

Optional Worksheets

Need to pencil out your classes before forecasting? Here are some printable forecasting/planning worksheets (you can also fill them out in Notable):

• • Incoming grade 9 (current grade 8)

  • Class of 2025 Forecasting Worksheet (current grade 9)

  • Class of 2024 Forecasting Worksheet (current grade 10)

  • Class of 2023 Forecasting Worksheet (current grade 11)

  • Four-year planning worksheet