APHS Letter from Principal Quiles

Dear APHS Students, Parents and Guardians, 

 

I hope this email finds you and your family healthy and well!   It’s been a busy summer at the high school, and we are excited to soon see our students and staff back in the building for what we expect will be an amazing year at Averill Park High School.  We are also pleased to share that our instructional schedule for the 2022-2023 school year is where we would expect it to be at this time.  

Today, you will find the SchoolTool Portal has been opened so that students and families may view their course schedules for the 2022-2023 school year.

As you review your schedule, please know that our Counseling Team has made every effort to reduce student conflicts, and maximize enrollment in the courses which students most selected.  From a statistical standpoint, I am pleased to report that this year’s schedule yielded the smallest number of student-level course conflicts we have ever experienced.  Of course, a complex schedule of this size will always have conflicts, and some students have needed to, or will still need to, make some choices.  Counselors will continue to work with students on these issues, as they arise.  

Please keep in mind that student schedules will not be changed prior to our official Add/Drop period, which will occur between September 19th and September 30th.  You may request a change of your schedule between now and then, ONLY if one of the following circumstances have occured:  

• a student has failed a prerequisite course and needs the next course in the sequence,
• a student went to summer school and no longer needs the assigned course,
• a student is repeating a course with the same teacher, 
• a clerical error has resulted in two courses being scheduled at the same time,
• a student would like to enroll in a credit-bearing course in place of a study hall,
• there are special medical considerations, documented by a physician.