School Hours

School Start & Release Times

Standard Elementary Schedule

Normal Schedule

  • Grades K - 6
    • 8:45 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
      • (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 
    • 8:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. (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
  • Hawthorne
  • Hillcrest
  • Lincoln Early Learning Center 
  • Lowell
  • Morley Nelson
  • Shadow Hills
  • Riverside
  • Whittier

Normal Schedule

  • Grades K - 6 
    • 9:15 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Early Release

  • Grades K - 6: 9:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. (lunch served)


Junior High Schedule

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

Normal Schedule

  • 7:45 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

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: 7:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (no lunch served)
  • Without Elementary: 7:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. (lunch served)


Senior High Schedule

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

Normal Schedule

  • 7:45 a.m. - 3:07 p.m.
    • Frank Church High School releases at 3:10 p.m.

Early Release

  • 7:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (no lunch served)