Class periods vary in length from 42 minutes to 70 minutes and meet an average of 220 minutes per week. To receive a diploma from Mt. Ararat High School, a student must be enrolled in a minimum of five courses per semester and earn a minimum of twenty credits. For vocational students these requirements are adjusted, particularly when they enter the vocation program in their freshman year. Graduation requirements are printed in and disseminated via the Program of Studies . Grades for each course are issued and distributed each quarter.
Class rank is determined at the end of the freshman year and is updated at the end of each semester.
Grades are not weighted, meaning the level of difficulty of a course has no role in determining class rank. The process for scheduling students course selections and determining teacher assignments starts with the development of the Program of Studies in winter. Department chairs, with input of the faculty, work cooperatively with guidance counselors to help determine placement of students in appropriate courses. An orientation is presented by guidance services and administration for entering 8th grade students and their parents. The goal of this program is to assist those students in choosing classes for the next year and to map out a four year plan to carry the student through his or her high school years.