Flexible Modular Scheduling - Where Used

Where Used

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy has used a modular schedule since it started in 1986. Every school day is divided into 20 modules of equal length. They are 20 min long with a 5 min break between modules. Therefore, 2-module classes are 45 min long, 3-module classes are 70 min long, and 4-module classes are 95 minutes long. Classes run four modules two days a week, three modules two days and two modules two days, two modules every day, or three modules two days, and two modules one day. Between modules 10 and 11, there is a 35 min break, the midday break, usually for eating lunch. The system is used because it increases the flexibility of the students classes.

East High School (Salt Lake City) used a modular flexible scheduling system during the 1970s and 1980, until the Salt Lake School District voted to change back to a more traditional program, as it believed that programming difficulties caused too much time and effort to be feasible.

St. Teresa's Academy (Kansas City, Missouri) has used a rotating modular schedule since the 1970-71 school year.

Westside High School (Omaha) has used some form of modular schedule since the fall of 1967. Rather than study halls, Westside's modular schedule system uses Instructional Materials Centers as work locations for students with unscheduled, independent study time. These are curriculum-specific and are near the desks of each subject area's teachers.

Holland Hall (Tulsa, Oklahoma) uses a modular schedule with eighteen 22 min modules.

Ursuline Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio), in the suburb of Blue Ash, Ohio, has eighteen 20 min modules.

Rochester Lourdes High School has twenty 16 modules, with 4 min passing time between each module.

Cleveland Heights High Schoo switched to a partial modular schedule in fall 2012; there are four 50 min periods and seven 23 min modules.

Wausau West High School has used this system since it started for that purpose in 1970; it has twenty-one 20 min modules.