In 2018, the California State Senate passed Senate Bill 328 requiring middle schools and high schools to begin no earlier than 8:00 am and 8:30 am respectively. This law goes into effect on July 1, 2022. As such, the District has worked to create a universal bell schedule that takes into account student transportation, coordination with our elementary district partners, as well as after-school activities and athletics. Additionally, the District’s traditional Wednesday “Flex Day” has been moved to Tuesdays.

Below you will find the bell schedule for each of our eight comprehensive high school. Please note some schools may elect to have two lunch periods and/or snack periods to accommodate school size. SOAR High School, Academies of the Antelope Valley, and Alternative Education sites will send their bell schedule information directly to students in the coming days.

The District Office, located at 176 Holston Drive in Lancaster, will be open for Summer Hours beginning June 6th from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm.

We will return to normal hours, 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, on Monday, August 1st.

Students from six district comprehensive high schools competed at the Aerospace Robotics Competition. This year Palmdale High School scored first and second place and the team from Knight High School finished in third place.

During the competition, students had to present their designs and plans to Lockheed Martin engineers as well as write code to have the drone fly autonomously through a path of waypoints, where it would have various tasks to complete once arriving at each station. The semi-autonomous portion of the contest consisted of students having to have their drone pick up tennis balls and drop them in hoops of various sizes while going head to head against another team. All together the students from the Antelope Valley won $1750 of prize money, and learned many valuable skills related to programming, robotics, and safe unmanned aerial system operations.