A major, multi-state study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked
later high school start times to significant decreases in teen substance abuse, depression, and consumption of caffeinated drinks.
In November 2013, citing a a national trend for
later high school start times, Garland Independent School District School Board President Larry Glick asked to place the issue of delaying the district's 7:30 a.m. high school start time on the school board's meeting agenda.
The mother of two high school students, Teresa Thompson, protested that the district «already has one of
the latest high school start times in the state of New York -LSB-.]
The Park City school board has determined the change will not happen this coming fall, but it has committed to an ongoing process of studying costs and other logistical changes needed to implement
a later high school start time, a practice a growing body of evidence says is developmentally appropriate for teens.
Not exact matches
In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in
high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years
later, he
started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the
time.
How this relates to the comments above:» Paly... been a Challenge Success poster
school for as long as I can remember: TA, block scheduling, pre-break finals, many class projects, homework free days, now homework
time limits, a
school climate coordinator, more de-laned subjects, fewer APs / student than peer
high schools I've read, and a
later start / no zero period that promotes sleep.
Later start -
times: «The case study for this topic is Menlo - Atherton
High School, which several years ago changed its school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meet
School, which several years ago changed its
school - start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meet
school -
start time from 7:55 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. (and 9:25 a.m. on Thursdays to allow for staff meetings).
Parents and teachers gathered at Annandale
High School Tuesday for the county's first «Sleep Night,» where a sleep expert presented findings from her study on a school that moved to a later start
School Tuesday for the county's first «Sleep Night,» where a sleep expert presented findings from her study on a
school that moved to a later start
school that moved to a
later start times.
Owens believes her data support
later start times for middle
school and
high school, to match the natural shift in adolescents» circadian pattern toward the eveningness chronotype.
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued recommendations in 2014 calling for a
school start time of 8:30 a.m. or
later for middle and
high schools.
«
Later start times better for high school students: Poor self - regulation in teens linked to circadian rhythms: Findings support later start times for middle schools and high schools.&r
Later start times better for
high school students: Poor self - regulation in teens linked to circadian rhythms: Findings support
later start times for middle schools and high schools.&r
later start times for middle
schools and
high schools.»
«There was a moderate and statistically significant difference between students» hours of sleep at earlier and
later starting high schools... this translates to an increase of 83.4 minutes of sleep for students at
schools with
later start times,» the report says.
The report
Later school start times for supporting the education, health, and well - being of high school students, published in December 2017, looked at the results of multiple intervention studies involving starting lessons later in the mor
Later school start times for supporting the education, health, and well - being of
high school students, published in December 2017, looked at the results of multiple intervention studies involving
starting lessons
later in the mor
later in the morning.
It's difficult to know exactly how this disconnect between teenagers» optimal sleep
times and
school schedules affects their classroom performance because
school districts that
start high schools later might be better - resourced or otherwise support students better than do those that
start high schools earlier in the day.
Fewer absences therefore may also explain why
later -
starting students have
higher test scores: students who have an early
start time miss more
school and could perform worse on standardized tests as a result.
If that were the case, then I might find that
schools with
later start times have
higher test scores, even if
start times themselves had no causal effect.
Some
high schools have postponed their
start times because research shows that adolescents are naturally groggy in the morning, and alert
later in the day.
Kenneth Dragseth, superintendent of
schools in Edina, Minnesota, says that students in his
school district who attend
schools that
start later have
higher grades than do students in
schools with earlier
start times.
Because AAP recommends
school start times of 8:30 a.m. or
later for both middle
schools and
high schools, the analyses in this report include public middle
schools,
high schools, and
schools with combined grades.
(Osceola
school leaders consider changing
high school start times (Sept. 10, 2015) WFTV; Jackson, Osceola District looks for solutions to early
school start times (Sept. 9, 2015) Osceola News - Gazette;
Later Osceola
school start times could cost millions (Setp.
The press reports that
high school students supported the
later start times but were concerned about the impact on afterschool programs and their ability to care for younger siblings.
Elementary
schools begin at 8:10 a.m. or
later, except Newport Elementary, which begins at 7:55 a.m. (Roelofs, What happened when one Minnesota
school district let
high schoolers sleep in (May 31, 2016) Bridge Magazine; Wente, Study: More sleep proving beneficial for District 833 students (Jan. 9, 2014) Woodbury Bull.; Lonetree,
Start time changes paying off for South Washington County
schools (Jan. 4, 2014) Star Tribune; Post, Study: Exhausted teens benefit from
later morning
school starts (Dec. 6, 2013) MPR News [includes audio].)
Later start and end
times for Yuma Elementary
School District 1 and Yuma Union High School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016 school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
School District 1 and Yuma Union
High School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016 school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as w
High School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016 school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
School District campuses were approved for the upcoming 2015 - 2016
school year, with the high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
school year, with the
high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as w
high school moving bell time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as
school moving bell
time from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m., saving transportation costs as well.
Option 3: Eliminate three - tiered busing and have the district's 8
high schools on their own
later start time.
Last month, Ukiah
High School began the school year with classes starting 45 minutes later at 8:15 a.m., a move designed to give its teen - age students more time to sle
School began the
school year with classes starting 45 minutes later at 8:15 a.m., a move designed to give its teen - age students more time to sle
school year with classes
starting 45 minutes
later at 8:15 a.m., a move designed to give its teen - age students more
time to sleep in.
(Clarkson,
School board looks at
late start times for
high schools (Dec. 8, 2011) London Community News.)
To give adolescent students an opportunity to obtain sufficient sleep, for 2014 - 2015, Charlotsville City
Schools will delay middle
school start times by 50 minutes to 8:30 a.m.
High school students will begin 5 minutes
later, at 9:05 a.m. Elementary
school schedules will be advanced by 30 minutes to 8 a.m..
Superintendent Conley, who has a daughter at the
high school, says she is «absolutely in favor» of
later starting times for teens but that there are «lots of moving parts» including bus schedules, staffing, athletics, clubs, and transportation costs.
North Olmsted
High School will
start 40 minutes
later starting in the fall of 2014 The new
start time will be 8:00 a.m. Middle
School will
start at 7:45, which is 22 minutes
later than in prior years.
The district is considering a plan to delay the 7:35 a.m. middle (grades 5 - 8) and
high school start time to 8:15 a.m. Oyster River has spent two years considering options for
later start times, aiming to balance sleep needs with busing schedules, after -
school care, student jobs and extracurricular activities.
Currently, Robert Bateman
High School has the earliest starting time of all Halton public high schools at 8:05 a.m.; Georgetown District High School has the latest at 8:58 a
High School has the earliest
starting time of all Halton public
high schools at 8:05 a.m.; Georgetown District High School has the latest at 8:58 a
high schools at 8:05 a.m.; Georgetown District
High School has the latest at 8:58 a
High School has the
latest at 8:58 a.m..
Glenn Hills
High School Principal Wayne Frazier is asking the Richmond County
School System to
start his students at 9:15 a.m., two hours
later than the current
start time.
Starting next year, all Seattle
high schools will push their
start times later — most of them by almost an hour — and most elementaries will
start significantly earlier under an overhaul of the district's bell schedule
school board members approved Wednesday night.
(Narcisse, Changes coming to
schools this fall (Apr. 18, 2012) theadvertiser; Hummel, Lafayette School Board Approves Turnaround Plan (Apr. 18, 2012) KATC.COM; All Lafayette schools proposed to start 15 minutes later (Apr. 18, 2012) KATC.COM; Superintendent Cooper's plan (Apr. 7, 2012) theadvertiser.com; Fernandez, New School Times Possible for Lafayette Parish Schools (Apr. 5, 2012) KATC.COM; Narcisse, More zzz for high - sch
schools this fall (Apr. 18, 2012) theadvertiser; Hummel, Lafayette
School Board Approves Turnaround Plan (Apr. 18, 2012) KATC.COM; All Lafayette
schools proposed to start 15 minutes later (Apr. 18, 2012) KATC.COM; Superintendent Cooper's plan (Apr. 7, 2012) theadvertiser.com; Fernandez, New School Times Possible for Lafayette Parish Schools (Apr. 5, 2012) KATC.COM; Narcisse, More zzz for high - sch
schools proposed to
start 15 minutes
later (Apr. 18, 2012) KATC.COM; Superintendent Cooper's plan (Apr. 7, 2012) theadvertiser.com; Fernandez, New
School Times Possible for Lafayette Parish
Schools (Apr. 5, 2012) KATC.COM; Narcisse, More zzz for high - sch
Schools (Apr. 5, 2012) KATC.COM; Narcisse, More zzz for
high -
schoolers?
At that
time, most district
high schools began at 7:30 a.m., with J.W. Mitchell High (8:40 a.m.) and Ridgewood High (8:30 a.m.), starting la
high schools began at 7:30 a.m., with J.W. Mitchell
High (8:40 a.m.) and Ridgewood High (8:30 a.m.), starting la
High (8:40 a.m.) and Ridgewood
High (8:30 a.m.), starting la
High (8:30 a.m.),
starting later.
A task force recommended an 8:30 a.m.
high school start time, concluding students would be «more alert in class and be better prepared to learn if they are able to attend
school later.»
Start times for high schools would be pushed back 65 minutes, middle schools will start an hour to 50 minutes later, and elementary schools would begin 65 minutes ear
Start times for
high schools would be pushed back 65 minutes, middle
schools will
start an hour to 50 minutes later, and elementary schools would begin 65 minutes ear
start an hour to 50 minutes
later, and elementary
schools would begin 65 minutes earlier.
The district's middle
school begins morning classes at 8:45 a.m.; four elementary
schools begin at 7:50 a.m., one elementary
school (Westmere) begins at 7:45 a.m. (Matson, Should
high school start times be
later?
One of the items in the 2018 - 19 budget is a placeholder to fund
later school start times for junior
high and
high school.
For years, through my experiences and conversations with my teaching friends, we know attendance, tardiness, behavior and even student achievement can be positively impacted by a
later start time for
high school students.
Changing all middle
schools to
later start times without also changing elementary and
high school start times would require 50 to 55 additional bus routes, at an estimated increased cost of $ 2 million per year, said Karen Kepler, chief of
school operations, in a memo to board members.
National research suggests
later middle and
high school start times can lead to a host of better outcomes, from
higher attendance rates and fewer behavior problems to improved scores on state tests.
For that reason and more, I am delighted that District 6 will be able to provide a
later start time for all our
high school students next year.
It will also be difficult news for many of the Extended Learning
Time schools that currently
start at 9:30, ending after 4:10, and particularly for the many families who were happy about the
later starts for
high schools.
In a few more years, his son will
start high school just in
time for an 8:30 a.m. or
later start time.
A report published by The Brookings Institution associated a significant increase in test scores with
later middle and
high school start times, with benefits roughly twice as great in disadvantaged students
The May issue of
School Administrator examines
later start times for
high schools.
Supporters point to research that suggests
later start times better align with the lives of
high school students, and could improve students» health, safety and academic success.
Some
high schools are beginning to acknowledge the research, and have
later start times, but they are few and far between.