Academic Bell Schedule

Designed for deeper learning and student formation.

A full class cycle will last 7 class days.
Students will eat lunch according to the location of their 3rd-period class that day.
Students with 3rd-period English, History, Theology classes, Counseling or Walton Center will eat first and attend classes after (Lunch 1).
Students with 3rd-period Fine Arts, Health/PE, Languages, Math or Science classes will attend classes first and eat after (Lunch 2).
All students should be in their first-period class by 8:20 a.m. (8:50 a.m. on Wednesdays). AP Science classes are the exception and will instead begin 20 minutes earlier per day.

All instructional periods are 58 minutes, and teachers will see their students 5 times in a 7-day cycle.
The school day begins at 8:20 a.m. and ends at 3:05 p.m. (M, T, TH, F).
Students get each class at different times of the day throughout the cycle, in a serpentine sequence.
Each day, there is a non-academic formation period following period 3 & lunch. It is an Activities period on M, TH, W, F and it is an Advisory period on Tuesdays.

The progression of classes always proceeds in the same order. The seven academic periods never happen all in one day, so wherever a student left off in the sequence today, he picks up with the next class tomorrow. The sequence snakes through from one day to the next, hence the term “serpentine.” See the example schedule and diagram above.
Example: If a day starts with Class C, we refer to the day as C-day and the following classes would be Class D, Class E, Class F, and Class G. Then the next school day would start with Class A, and we refer to the class schedule that day as A-Day.
Your classes always go in order, so once you learn the order, you are all set.