Block scheduling is characterized by flexibility and is consistent with middle school philosophy.
The teachers have the opportunity and authority to lengthen or shorten the length of each teaching period, and the team of teachers may switch students among sections as long as heterogeneous grouping is used. It is intended that the block of team time occurs during the morning with exploratory courses being scheduled for the afternoon. The design is deliberate and recognizes that the attention span and concentration level of Middle School students are longer and more productive in the morning than in the afternoon. This has resulted from having to coordinate the middle school course schedule with the high school schedule, since West Greene Middle School is housed with West Greene High School and shares both classrooms and faculty. A PDF version of the schematic diagram of the block scheduling in the Middle School.