The sweltering heat in San Diego County will mean shorter schooldays for thousands of students.
On Monday, the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) will implement “minimum day schedules” at all schools that aren’t fully air conditioned. Click here for a list of affected schools
Each school has its own modified schedule. Parents can learn the hours by visiting their child’s school's website. They can also call the district’s new Quality Assurance Office at 619-725-7211.
The school bus schedule will be adjusted, and the PrimeTime after-school program will remain in place, according to a news release from SDUSD. The district is working with the YMCA to provide additional after-school services.
SDUSD schools with 100 percent AC will operate on normal schedules Monday. The district will announce by 12 p.m. Monday if minimum days will be in effect for Tuesday.
Other districts will also be sending students home early because of the heat. On Monday, more than 3,000 students in the Coronado Unified School District will begin at their normal times, but release students at 12:30 p.m.
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The same is true for several schools in the National School District which serves more than 5,700 students. Ira Harbison, Las Palmas, Lincoln Acres and John Otis will dismiss students at 1 p.m. both Monday and Tuesday. Students at Central, El Toyon, Kimball and Olivewood will be released at 1:25 p.m. Palmer Way, Rancho de la Nación and the preschool center will operate as usual.
Students who ride the bus should follow the Thursday bus schedule, according to the district. The REACH Program will still take place.
The Children's School in La Jolla will dismiss its students, numbered at less than 1,000, at noon Monday.
La Mesa/Spring Valley School District officials said its classrooms have air conditioning. Students will be in class for the entire school day.
The extreme heat impacted students over the weekend, including Saturday at a high school cross country meet at Kit Carson Park in Escondido. As runners pushed themselves to the limit with the sun beating down, their coaches took extra precautions to prevent fainting, heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
"We have misting cooling fans, and we have a full-body cold tub for body immersion in severe cases," said Robbie Bowers, Head Athletic Trainer at Rancho Bernardo High School.
"We turn our focus away from muscular-skeletal type injuries to the life-threatening situations which we wanted to be every bit prepared for," Bowers said.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a heat advisory for areas west of the San Diego County mountains until 7 p.m. Tuesday. NBC 7 meteorologist Greg Bledsoe predicted highs of 88 at the coast and 100 inland on Sunday.
“Triple digits for a lot of our inland areas and a chance to break some record," Bledsoe said Sunday. "We did on Saturday. El Cajon hit 100. That was a record for them.”
