Specific Requirements
The total number of instructional minutes offered in the school year, separately stated for each grade level, as compared to the total number of the instructional minutes per school year that are required by state law, separately stated for each grade level.
Education Code Section 33126 (b)(15)
Definitions
List of the total number of overall instructional minutes by grade level in comparison to 36,000 minutes for kindergarten; 50,400 minutes for grades one through three; 54,000 minutes for grades four through eight; and 64,800 minutes for grades nine through twelve.
Guidelines and Data Sources
Instructional minutes requirements are governed by Education Code Section 46201.
The total number of instructional minutes includes actual passing time between classes, not to exceed 10 minutes for any one passing.
Note: To determine passing time for instructional minutes' calculation purposes, exclude the period of time for lunch, breaks, or recess. Count passing time from the class before lunch to the class after lunch, as if lunch did not happen. The same passing time is counted with passing from a class before a break to a class after a break. If the student goes from the classroom, to break or lunch, then back to the same classroom, there is no passing time.
Data provided by the Local Educational Agency (LEA).
