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For this high school in West Virginia, building time for clubs and tutoring into the school day means happier, higher-achieving students.

Founded in 2013, Spring Mills High School in Martinsburg, West Virginia, is the newest school in the state. The administrators and teachers faced a familiar challenge: How do you inspire students to come to school regularly, especially when there’s no established school culture or traditions? When chronic absenteeism reached 33% in 2023, school leadership knew they needed to act—and the biggest change that Spring Mills made was to alter the bell schedule to allow for a single, schoolwide lunch hour, called Cardinals Connect.

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