Master Schedule: Gym Use Issue

An issue that may warrent attention from Department Heads is the effect our current master schedule has on gym usage. Bottom line, between grade level lunches, block schedules, grade level exploratory classes and grade level planning we are making inefficent use of our gym facilities.

1. most of our gym classes must be schedule periods 1 and 2...5 classes at a time which is overflowing and best use would be 4 classes per period all day.

2. then other periods mid-day only 2 or 3 classes are using the gym

There are also other effects on the master schedule to consider such as:

3. each year, 9th grade first and second period classes are very small compared to other periods because of foreign language, music, exploratory 7th grade rotation etc....so class size is 15-19 while other periods average 30 students.

These are issues that should/could be studied by Department Heads this year.