Roy High's principal outlined a multi-part program to reduce tardies and improve safety that relies on hallway expectations, 'rolling desks' staffed by administrators, tardy stations where students scan IDs, and a graduated consequence structure.

The principal described the approach as a team effort to teach expectations and said staff held assemblies to instruct students about the new rules. She said the school ran a second-quarter trial and reported the number of tardies fell substantially — citing "about 6,500" in first quarter and "42" in second quarter — and that incident counts (fights) also declined once tardy stations were in place. "We feel it helped our instructional time by getting kids into the classroom where they're supposed to be," she said.

Board members asked whether absenteeism changed district-wide; staff said overall absences remained roughly the same and that a district presentation on absenteeism by Jennifer Warren will be provided in February to review school-level data.

The principal said the pilot will continue into the third quarter and the team will keep collecting data to evaluate long-term effects. The district did not present external validation of the numbers during the study session; the data were described by the school's principal as preliminary trial results.