For nearly 20 years, Oak Park High School has maintained the same bell schedule. Starting next year, students must adapt to a new bell schedule with longer days, 0-periods and no 7th period. 

According to Senate Bill No. 328, the school day for high schools may not begin earlier than 8:30 a.m. by July 1, 2022. This posed a problem to our schedule since 0-period currently counts towards the instructional minutes required for public schools to operate.

To satisfy the new state requirements, OPHS elected to lengthen each period by twenty minutes as a replacement for seventh period. 0-period is not gone, but will start at 7:15 a.m. rather than 7:20 a.m. It will end at 8:25 a.m. rather than 8:20 a.m. Lunch will be pushed back at least 40 minutes. School will end at 3:35 p.m. rather than 2:25 p.m.