School Hours

School Start & Release Times

Standard Elementary Schedule

Normal Schedule

  •  Grades K - 6
    •  8:45AM - 3:15PM (except for Liberty Elementary, which offers a half-time a.m. K program from 8:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.) 

Early Release

  •  Grades K - 6
    •  8:45AM - 1:15PM (lunch served)


Late Start Elementary Schedule

To help ease transportation costs, the District has ten schools that run a later schedule than our standard elementary schedule. These schools are:

  • Amity
  • Dallas Harris (open October 2023)
  • Hawthorne
  • Hillcrest
  • Lowell
  • Madison
  • Morley Nelson
  • Shadow Hills
  • Riverside
  • Whittier

Normal Schedule

  •  Grades K - 6
    •  9:15AM - 3:45PM


Early Release

  •  Grades K - 6
    •  9:15AM - 1:45PM (lunch served)


Junior High Schedule

The following start and release times are approximate. Please check with your school for exact times as they vary by a few minutes depending on the school.


Normal Schedule

  • 7:45AM - 2:30PM


Early Release
Due to bus scheduling, Junior High early release times vary depending on whether or not there is an elementary early release on the same date.

  • With Elementary: 7:45AM - 12:00PM (no lunch served)
  • Without Elementary: 7:45 - 1:15PM (lunch served)


Senior High Schedule

The following start and release times are approximate. Please check with your school for exact times as they vary by a few minutes depending on the school.


Normal Schedule

  • 7:50AM - 3:12PM


Early Release

  • 7:50AM - 12:30PM (no lunch served)