A Barrington Area Unit District 220 survey shows positive trends such as more sleep for students and reduced unscheduled nurse visits since later start times were enacted for high school and the middle schools in 2017-18.
District 220 took its first poll of the students, employees and teachers toward the end of the 2016-17 academic season to establish bench marks for results before the first year of the later start times.
In 2017-18, the high school and the two middle school students were shifted to later start times, with the younger children beginning earlier, in a move that officials hoped would boost academic performance and student well-being. Barrington High moved its start time from 7:20 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and District 220’s two middle schools shifted to 9 a.m. from 7:55 a.m.
When asked whether they were getting an optimal 8½ to 9½ hours of sleep per day, 24% reported doing so in 2018-19, compared with 15% before the later starts. The most recent survey distributed toward the end of May also shows 402 unscheduled nurse visits by the students in 2018-19 compared with 483 in 2016-17 before the shift.
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