Loyal School Board Approves Early Release for Most Wednesdays During the Next School Year

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 -- 11:00 AM

The Loyal School Board approved the 2024-25 School Calendar at their February meeting.

One of the changes, different from this year’s calendar, is the addition of early release days on most Wednesdays throughout the school year. Students will be dismissed around 2:40pm on these Wednesdays.

During this time, staff will be involved with professional development focused on professional learning communities. These communities will be focused on student learning, instructional strategies, and assessments and will involve all teaching staff meeting with a team.

These meetings must take place during the contracted school day. This will not change the number of school days that students will attend. The District understands that this may cause an inconvenience to some families, so the District is looking to continue their Lil’ Dawgs program for any elementary student/family that needs daycare.

All other school programs should be able to continue at their regular times. The District is providing this information now so families can have adequate time to plan for this change. As for those students involved in CCD classes, St. Anthony’s has been involved in this discussion.

CCD students will board the bus at the public school at the early release time and be dropped off at St. Anthony’s. CCD will start at approximately the same time as this year.

Currently, they allow students to leave school early on CCD days so they can get to St. Anthony’s early to start CCD. The new schedule will eliminate students missing instruction time at the public school to attend CCD.

Feel free to contact us with questions and/or comments.