The Knoxville School District is changing the time school starts at the high school.

Starting tomorrow school will begin at 8:05 a.m. instead of 8 a.m., Tuesdays through Fridays. Monday will stay the same, 10 a.m. This year as an attempt to get students more involved in the decision making process at the high school, a Student Advisory group was created at the beginning of the school year. The group is made up of students from each grade and meet several times per month to propose ideas to improve KHS from a student lens. One of the proposals that was made near the end of 1st semester was to change the school start time from 8:00 AM to 8:05 AM, Tuesday through Friday. The students found a way to push the school start time back by 5 minutes without altering the amount of instructional time used during class periods. A survey that was created by the Student Advisory garnered over a 65% approval rate from the students to make the change to the new school start time.