School days at Oak Ridge High School will be five minutes longer starting today, Oak Ridge High School Principal Jody Goins said in a Sunday e-mail to students, parents, staff, and others.

High school students will now be dismissed at 2:55 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. They will be dismissed at 1:40 p.m. on  Wednesdays, a shorter school day in Oak Ridge.

The new schedule will be in effect through the rest of the school year, Goins said.

“As mentioned previously, it was recently brought to the attention of the Oak Ridge Schools’€™ Board of Education and Superintendent’s office that we need to modify our existing schedule slightly to fulfill the requirement set forth by the Tennessee Department of Education and the Tennessee School Boards Association regarding minimum instructional minutes per day,” Goins said in the e-mail. “In accordance with this requirement, we will be lengthening our instructional day by five minutes every day.”