The school’s start time will move up five minutes from last year. High schools will now start at 8:10 a.m. and end at 3:25 p.m. A five minute schedule change will be implemented district wide for both elementary and high schools this year. 

The change is because elementary schools need to change their schedules to  meet the minutes required by state for attendance. Bus routes are being adjusted to ensure that the requirements are met. Superintendent Kevin Rogers let the district know in late April of these changes.

Sophomore Jenna Chang said the new schedule may pose difficulties in the upcoming year.

“We get to leave school earlier, but we have to wake up earlier,” Chang said. “And they didn’t really take a poll or anything, they just decided.”

Attendance clerk Trudy York said that students will take a longer time to adjust to the school year due to the new bell schedule.

“It was hard for [students] to get here at 8:15 but five minutes shouldn’t make that much of a difference,” York said. “It may just take getting adjusted and used to a new time, but they get out five minutes earlier.”