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Block Schedule
In our on-going effort to help all our students achieve to the best of their abilities, we've adopted a new schedule called the 4 X 4 block. This innovation allows students to tale only four (instead of the traditional six) classes each eight weeks. With two fewer classes, students have more time to concentrate upon completing their homework and thoroughly learning their subjects. Each class is now 95 minutes, giving the teachers time to delve deeply into the important concepts and really help the students master them.

Because the class periods are so much longer now, each semester is only eight weeks and an entire year's course of study sixteen weeks (the time we used to spend for just a semester!), it means that each day us equivalent to two days on the old system. It is therefore crucial that all students really cannot afford to miss school or come unprepared. The first bell rings at 7:15 am; students must be seated in their classes by 7:25 am or they will be picked up in the tardy sweep. Each time they are late, they not only miss valuable instruction but they will also receive detention and phone calls home.


REGULAR DAY BANKED TIME
Breakfast 6:45am - 7:15am Breakfast 6:45am - 7:15am
1st & HR 7:25am - 9:15am 1st & HR 7:25am - 8:53am
Passing 9:15am - 9:22am Passing 8:53am - 9:00am
2nd 9:22am - 10:57am 2nd 9:00am - 10:13am
Lunch 10:57am - 11:34am Lunch 10:13am - 10:50am
Passing 11:34am - 11:42am Passing 10:50am - 10:58am
3rd 11:42am - 1:17pm 3rd 10:58am - 12:11pm
Passing 1:17pm - 1:25pm Passing 12:11pm - 12:19pm
4th 1:25pm - 3:00pm 4th 12:19pm - 1:32pm