Academic Planning

2024-2025 ACADEMIC PLANNING TIMELIME
Prior to December 2024	All DGS students and families are invited to attend the annual DGS Curriculum Night at the beginning of the school year. During this event, Counselors outline academic priorities and share grade level presentations. Click here to access the presentations. Teachers meet with students and make recommendations for 2025-2026 courses later during the first semester. Please contact individual teachers with any questions or concerns regarding student course recommendations. Counselors will visit students to explain the registration process during this time as well.
January 13th, 2025	Window to view course requests on HAC will close. Course requests and changes will occur in-person when students meet with their individual counselor appointments during grade level appointments. These appointments will begin in December, 2024 and will end during the last week in January, 2025.
December 9th- 13th, 2024 Course Selection for Class of 2026	Counselor Registration Appointments for the Class of 2026 (current Juniors). This opportunity will be used to finalize requests or to discuss potential options with a school counselor. Appointments will be scheduled through the Counseling and Student Support Services Department.
January 13th- 17th, 2025: Course Selection for Class of 2027	Counselor Registration Appointments for the Class of 2027 (current Sophomores). This opportunity will be used to finalize requests or discuss potential options with a school counselor. Appointments will be scheduled through the Counseling and Student Support Services Department.
January 21st - January 24th 2025: Course Selection for Class of 2028	Counselor Registration Appointments for the Class of 2028 (current Freshmen). This opportunity will be used to finalize requests or discuss potential options with a school counselor. Appointments will be scheduled through the Counseling and Student Support Services Department.
January 27th, 2025: Class of 2029 Future Mustang Orientation Night	Class of 2029 Future Mustangs Orientation Night: Incoming 9th grade students and their parents/guardians will receive course recommendations via email the week before, and on Monday, January 27th will have an opportunity to learn more about curricular and co-curricular options. Information will be sent out to families about this event in January.
February 1st, 2025: Course Selection for Class of 2029	Counselor Registration Appointments for the Class of 2029 (current 8th grade students) to review and discuss course requests for the 2025-2026 school year. Appointment information will be shared via email in January 2025.
February/ March/ April 2025	Decisions will be made regarding what courses will be offered at DGS based on courses selected. Some students will be scheduled for an additional meeting to select a different elective if a course has been canceled due to under enrollment or has been closed due to over enrollment.
May 2025	Some students are asked to meet with their counselor during this time to assist in resolving schedule conflicts. Students may be asked to select a different course to resolve the conflict in their schedule.
Summer 2025	Be on the lookout for 2025-2026 school year enrollment information from our District 99 Administrative Service Center. All parents will need to complete their student enrollment process before schedules can be finalized and posted to Home Access Center. To complete enrollment, you must activate your Home Access Center account (if necessary) first. Please follow this link to do so. Once you have completed HAC activation, look for enrollment information via email or Parent Square for your next steps.
August 2025	All students should receive their schedule via Home Access. At this point, schedule changes are only considered for a limited number of reasons and need to be communicated to your student’s counselor prior to the first day of school. Approved reasons include: scheduling error (ex. 2 PE courses appearing in one semester), students not scheduled for a graduation requirement and need to be (ex. no English course scheduled), change in post-secondary pathway or information (ex. on a college visit, recommendation that a student needed to take AP Statistics for college admission). Once the school year begins, a student must go through the formal drop process in order to have a class removed from their schedule. It is rare to drop a course at any point; requests are only considered for a limited number of reasons. A student will not be allowed to drop a course, if, in doing so, they would fall below the 6 credit class minimum requirement. Course drops cannot be initiated until the end of the 4th week of school.