Alternative Schools

Year around schools

• provides a more structured environment, one of consistency and positivity, for students with unsupportive or unstable homes.
• The safety and dependability that school offers doesn’t stop with the onset of summer.

Later Start Time

• support the biological needs of adolescents.
• they increase the amount of sleep adolescents get.
• Improved attendance at school.

Four- day school week

• Some students feel the four-day school week provides an opportunity for extra rest and a less stressful environment.
• Being out of school one extra day per week allows students to relax or to be more productive.
• A four-day school week can improve student and teacher attendance.

The Trimester Plan

• the school year into three portions rather than the traditional semester system
• Although students receive report cards only three times a year under the trimester system as opposed to four under the semester system, many educators believe the trimester system educates students more effectively,
• allows students to take more courses and better prepares them for college.