All 252 students in the Lyle district are in one building, so they're making the most of an excellent opportunity to serve the community and prepare children for school. They have started a day-care facility in the school. This lets children be introduced to the environment where they will spend twelve years, and allows the school to identify potential problems at an earlier age, where intervention and assistance may have a greater impact. The district is also addressing the needs of its students with a block schedule. There are two 89-minute blocks in the morning and two in the afternoon, with no study halls.
Students take four different classes each semester, for total of eight in the year.
The last block of the day, which is split into two periods of 45 minutes each, is tailored to meet the unique needs of the school. These are elective classes in a more traditional schedule format. It allows music students to take both band and choir and meet every day, and allows other students to pick other electives. School administrators feel this system is more conducive to improved learning, and the numbers bear them out. Overall, student grades have improved significantly this year since the inception of this system.