New School Start Times Being Voted On In Lower Merion Next Week

LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA — Students in the Lower Merion School District could be going to school at different times in the next school year.

The Lower Merion School District Board of School Directors is planning to vote next week on a proposal that would shift school start times.

Parents, guardians, and other stakeholders in the community can attend the meeting in person or virtually.

The meeting will be held at 8 p.m.

View the meeting via Zoom online here and enter the passcode 143492

A livestream of the meeting will be available online here.

The board Monday discussed findings from a start time survey that was launched in February.

Watch that meeting online here.

The new start time proposal has high schoolers starting at 8:40 a.m., elementary students at 9:20 a.m., and middle school students at 8 a.m.

Dismissal times are 3:30 p.m. for high schools, 4:05 p.m. for elementary schools, and 2:50 p.m. for middle schools.

High schoolers and middle schoolers would get 6 hours and 50 minutes of learning time per day, while elementary students would get 6 hours and 45 minutes.

Now, high school begins at 7:30 a.m., middle school at 8:15 a.m., and elementary school at 9 a.m.

Should the board OK the proposed new start times, transportation related to after school clubs, sports, field trips, and other aspects of school logistics could be impacted.

See a full presentation on the start time proposal online here.