GRHS Schedule Change Guidelines
Grand Rapids High School
Schedule and Schedule Change Guidelines
Guidelines are in place to ensure students are intentional with their course selection and students are in the appropriate courses to start their semester with effective course completion, graduation and skill development in mind.
Responsibilities and Expectations
Students are responsible to review their schedule prior to the start of the semester/year.
Schedule change requests must be made via the links on the GRHS Website and not directly emailing or calling counselors.
Schedule change requests will only be reviewed during the posted timelines.
Schedule changes will be made by the first day of the semester. Changes will be reflected in Campus upon approval.
Some courses such as Band and Choir require year long commitments.
Schedule changes made after the course has begun are subject to a grade penalty up to and including a failing grade.
Students dropping a course prior to the completion date (end of semester for semester-long course, end of year for year-long courses), will earn a “WF”/”F” for the course that was dropped.
Schedule Review and Change Windows
Requests for changes to tentative schedules will occur from August 12 through August 30th. Students/families are responsible to review schedules posted in Campus. This will be the only opportunity to request a change to the schedule for semester 1 courses.
Semester 1 review will occur August 19 - September 2nd. Schedule changes requests will be reviewed, modifications will be made if approved. Students will be notified via email, IF a change was made to the schedule.
Semester 2 schedule change requests will be open December 16-January 10th. Students/families are responsible to review schedules posted in Campus. This will be the only opportunity to request a change to the schedule for semester 2 courses.
Semester 2 review will occur January 10 - January 20th. Schedule changes requests will be reviewed, modifications will be made if approved. Students will be notified via email, IF a change was made to the schedule.
Changes after the start of each semester are only made for the following reasons:
Student has not met a required prerequisite.
Failure of a course that is a graduation requirement or missing a graduation requirement.
Level change as determined by the instructor.
Student has already taken the course.
A previously requested elective course has available space.
Schedule changes requests will not be available once the request window has closed and/or semester has started. Changes after the start of each semester are made by teacher, counselor or principal recommendation/approval.
Schedule change requests that will NOT be accommodated:
Request for a specific teacher.
Request for a course during a specific class period/hour, this includes Study Hall.
Request for a specific lunch.
Request to be with a friend(s).
Request that would drop a class to below the minimum number of students required or above the maximum allowed in a course.
Request that would drop a student below the pace for “on time” graduation.
No longer interested in a requested course.