AISD School Schedules Are Weirdly Diverse
Important distinction : I'm talking about the structure of classes in a week here, not the structure of periods within a day. Bell schedules don't say much about a school. I'm not sure these maps say much, either, but they're more interesting. The high school map is so simple that making it at all felt like a waste of time. All the zoned high schools in the Austin Independent School District have the same schedule every week. All of these schools use a block A/B day schedule. Mondays and Wednesdays are always A days, Tuesdays and Thursdays are always B days, and Friday rotates between being an A or B day week by week. As far as I know, Fridays are the same A/B day for every school in the district in a given week. [This is wrong. A reader of the blog (didn't know I had those!) let me know that after a schedule disruption, each campus chooses if Friday should be an A or B day, so the schools will probably fall out of sync in a few weeks.] Each week is ABABA or ABABB