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Westlake Schools Change First Day of School

District announces orientation and schedule information

The Westlake City School District has a new first day of school: Wednesday, Sept. 4.

The district has also released information for 
Westlake High School's schedules and orientation. 

As part of the State of Ohio's initiative to encourage best practices and innovative programming, school districts working on new teaching and testing standards, as well as school safety practices, were able to apply for waiver days for the upcoming school year to provide additional time to train staff.

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District administrators created a district-wide plan for staff development that focuses on targeted initiatives and areas of improvement in each building and received approval from the state for three “waiver days” which will slightly change the upcoming school calendar.

The waiver days are Sept. 3,  Jan. 6 and Feb. 14.

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On these three days, school will not be in session so staff members can participate in professional development.

Orientation

Westlake High School students will participate in a student orientation day on Tuesday, Sept. 3.  WHS seniors and freshmen will attend orientation from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.  WHS sophomores and juniors will attend orientation from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

WHS administration will send out a mailing on Aug. 9 providing information on traffic patterns, parking, senior privilege and medical forms.

Schedules

The online portal for high school schedules will be open on Aug. 28. Students can print their schedules off at home and bring them to orientation on Sept. 3, or they can pick up schedules from Aug. 28 to Sept. 3 at the high school. At this time the building will not be open for students to walk through until the Sept. 3 orientation day.


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