This year a community of students and administrators decided to change the class schedules for the 2013-2014 school year. School will start two minutes early and 10 minutes later than it is now. Falcon Hour will also be cut back, making it 47 minutes.

“We had some teachers recommending that maybe it was a little too long,” said assistant principal Dr. Chad Brinton.

The upcoming freshman classes will have a different set up than in previous years. They will have three full-hour classes and two 90-minute classes.

“By doing the freshman hourly,” said Brinton, “The freshmen get around 45 hours of additional instruction per year.”

The community looked through many kinds of schedule ideas such as, blended block, seven period, and mixed block. They then presented them to the board of education and had one approved.

“Some people need more extra time with teachers,” said sophomore Michael Majors. “I think it will have more a positive effect than a negative one.”

Central office will look through the changes one last time on May 22 before they become official for next year.