• In the early spring of each school year, students are given the opportunity to choose courses after having met with their counselor for an informational session. In March, students are given an opportunity to verify their course request in Skyward Family Access. After that time the Master Schedule is developed.

    The student course requests are used to make decisions about the number of sections of each course. For example, if 60 students request a particular class, two sections will be offered; if only 30 students request the class, only one section will be offered. Therefore, after the Master Schedule has been created, there are very few slots available to accommodate late request for changes.

    To maintain balance of classroom numbers and to minimize disruptions to the academic process, schedule changes will be made for the following reasons by using the Schedule Change Request Form.

    • A student has already received credit for the class in which they are currently scheduled.
    • A male has been scheduled into a female PE/Athletics, or vice versa.
    • A student is in a class for which they do not have the appropriate prerequisite (i.e., enrolled in Spanish II and has not taken Spanish I).
    • A student is a SENIOR and needs the requested class for graduation.
    • A student is duplicating a class in which they are enrolled through the Dual Credit program at Houston Community College (documentation must be submitted showing the student has enrolled in the course).
    • A student requiring a schedule correction must pick up a Schedule Change Request Form and submit to their counselor. The deadline for all schedule correction(s) is 9 days after the start of each semester.

    In general, elective change requests will not be honored. However, if a student is trying to move from a regular elective into an extracurricular program (i.e. band, choir, and athletics) the request for the change will be considered but must be initiated by the coach/ program director.