Entrance Requirements    

 Students interested in attending Oakwood must:

Session  Dates

Oakwood’s calendar consists of four 45 day sessions and offers 4 class periods per day. An open campus school has no minimum class day requirements. Students have the option of attending one or all four periods (Don't Forget There Is An Attendance Policy) and attending all sessions. With this schedule, students may earn as few as 2 credits or up to 8 credits per year. The school year at Oakwood begins and ends on the same date as the other Cobb County schools. The same holidays are observed. However, teacher workdays are different.

Session Four  March 17, 2008    to   May 23, 2008

 Bell Schedule

Oakwood’s bell schedule is different from most traditional high schools. Each day has four periods with an open campus lunch break between second and third periods. About every other Wednesday there is a shorten schedule, referred to as Common Planning, for teacher collaboration and planning.

Classes start at 8:00 AM and each class meets for 103 minutes except on Common Planning when classes meet for 70 minutes. There is a 6 minute break between classes.