Oak Park and River Forest High School announced on Apr. 17 detailed information about the Semester 2 final exam schedule for the 2025-2026 school year.
The announcement provides students and families with important dates, attendance requirements, and procedures to help them prepare for final exams at the end of the academic year.
Seniors will take their finals during regular class periods on Thursday, May 21, and Friday, May 22. Underclassmen will have their exams from Tuesday to Thursday, May 26-28. The daily bell schedule specifies that exams will be held in three sessions each day: morning (8:00–9:40 a.m.), mid-morning (9:50–11:30 a.m.), and late morning (11:40 a.m.–1:20 p.m.). Make-up exams are scheduled during the last session on Thursday. There is no advisory period during finals week.
Teachers will notify students about exam formats in advance. Students with Individualized Education Programs or Section 504 plans will receive details about accommodations directly from case managers. Attendance is required for all classes during scheduled examination times, including study halls and physical education; teachers will take attendance each period. Any student absent must contact their teacher to arrange make-up exams after the scheduled date. Early exam requests are not permitted except for long-term projects started before finals week.
The South Cafeteria will serve breakfast before school hours and offer grab-and-go lunches during lunch periods on all three days of underclassmen finals. Snacks can be purchased between classes, with cafeteria closing times varying by day. Students may also leave campus for lunch as open campus procedures apply throughout exam days.
Gradebook access in Skyward will be unavailable from Tuesday morning through Friday evening following finals week due to administrative processing.
Oak Park and River Forest High School serves grades nine through twelve with an enrollment of 3,393 students in the 2019-2020 school year according to the Illinois Report Card. In that same year, grade ten had the highest concentration of students at 26.2 percent; grades nine through twelve were distributed as follows: ninth grade made up 25.6 percent of enrollment, tenth grade was at 26.2 percent, eleventh grade accounted for 25.4 percent, while twelfth grade represented 25.3 percent according to Illinois Report Card.
Demographically in the same period, Oak Park and River Forest High School consisted of approximately fifty-seven percent white students, eighteen percent black students, thirteen percent Hispanic students, and four percent Asian students according to Illinois Report Card.
