Students

Course selection is an important process that requires planning. We encourage you to work with your counselor, teachers, and parents to plan and select the right courses. Think with the end in mind.

What are your goals when you leave SHS? What courses will help you meet your goal? What areas do you excel? Are you taking the advanced level courses in these areas (honors or AP)?

If you are debating whether or not to take and AP or honors level course, ask you teachers. However, if you are planning on attending college, we strongly encourage you to take honors and AP level courses in order to prepare for the challenges of college. Think about this, when we get our surveys from SHS graduates, they never complain about being too challenged in high school; however, many students do tell us they wish they picked more challenging courses while in high school.

There are important timelines associated with the scheduling process. These timelines are communicated in the Course Selection Guide, on the Home page of this website, in letters to your parents, on the morning announcements, and on posters throughout the school. Failure to meet these deadlines forfeits your ability to select your courses. Students who do not select their own courses will not have the opportunity to make change requests. These timelines have been created to make a better master schedule, to get you the courses you are asking for.