Seneca Valley Middle School offers a wide variety of academic and exploratory courses for seventh and eighth graders. Many of the classes are mandated because of state or school district requirements.

It is important to follow the registration process in order to understand and to ensure a completed schedule for the following year.

SEVENTH GRADE REGISTRATION

1. Administrators and counselors hold a Parent Orientation Meeting for incoming seventh graders. Parents should be present at this meeting.
2. Counselors meet with each sixth grade classroom to discuss courses and middle school procedures. A Program of Studies and registration forms are distributed.
3. Sixth grade teachers confer and then recommend students for appropriate placement in English and math.
4. Parents review the proposed schedule and return it to the appropriate homeroom teacher.
5. Sixth grade homeroom teachers collect the parent approved schedules and forward them to the middle school.
6. Seneca Valley Middle School counselors provide tours of the middle school and give a brief orientation for all sixth graders.
7. Schedule changes can be made in March, April, and May without serious difficulties. In June, a master schedule is finalized for all middle school students. After this time, schedule changes become extremely difficult because teachers, suppies, books, classroom spaces, and clas sizes have been arranged based on the courses you have selected. Thus schedule changes will be limited and only made for academic reasons. Please consider all decisions carefully.

EIGHTH GRADE REGISTRATION

1. Instructions will be presented by a counselor via video announcements. A Program of Studies and registration materials are distributed.
2. Seventh grade teachers recommend students for appropriate placement in English and math.
3. Parents review the proposed schedules and they may discuss placement with teachers and/or counselors.
4. Students may meet with counselors to answer specific questions.
5. Students hand in completed schedules to homeroom teachers.
6. Schedule changes can be made in March, April, and May without serious difficulties. In June, a master schedule is finalized for all middle school students. After this time, schedule changes become extremely difficult because teachers, suppies, books, classroom spaces, and clas sizes have been arranged based on the courses you have selected. Thus schedule changes will be limited and only made for academic reasons. Please consider all decisions carefully.