Study Proposes Later School Start Times For Oregon City Schools

From the Oregon City School District:

Why should the district consider a later start time for high school students? A committee of Oregon City educators has spent the last year studying how later school start times can help improve the health of high school students. The American Academy of Pediatrics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association all agree that later school start times have potential benefits to physical and mental health, safety, and academic achievement. To learn more, checkout a flyer about school start times (English PDF, Spanish PDF).

A proposal to change school start times as early as Fall 2020 will be presented to the School Board at their regular meeting on December 9th. The Board may adopt the proposal as soon as January 13th.

The current draft proposal would impact our schools in the following ways:

• High Schools would start about one hour later. (Bus pickup and dropoff times would shift accordingly).
• Middle Schools would start about a half-hour later. (Bus pickup and dropoff times would shift accordingly).
• Elementary Schools would start about 5-10 minutes earlier. (Bus pickup and dropoff times would shift accordingly).

This press release was produced by the Oregon City School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.