6 More Palmdale Schools to Become Year-Round : Education: The change this summer will mean half the district’s 18 campuses are on the non-traditional calendar.

Six more elementary schools in the Palmdale School District, the largest in the Antelope Valley, will be converted to year-round schedules beginning this summer, officials said Wednesday.

The move was one in a series by area districts prompted by a March 1 deadline for requesting state funds to help finance and encourage such schedule changes.

The move would bring the number of year-round schools in the Palmdale district to nine, or half of its campuses.

About 7,300 of the district’s 13,350 students will attend classes on year-round schedules.

The governing board of the Antelope Valley Union High School District was also scheduled to consider Wednesday night switching Antelope Valley High School to year-round classes in mid-1992.

Highland High School this summer will become the first of that district’s five regular high schools to go year-round.

The governing board of the Lancaster School District also decided Tuesday to designate four more of its 14 campuses as possible year-round sites starting in mid-1992.

The Lancaster district has two year-round campuses now, and plans to add four this summer.

The flurry of activity this week was due to a March 1 state Department of Education deadline for year-round grant applications.

The districts won’t know for some months, however, if they will receive any additional funds.

The state has been pushing year-round education because it allows schools to serve one-third to one-quarter more students than campuses on traditional schedules.

The result is that fewer new schools have to be built in rapidly growing communities, easing the statewide shortage of school construction funds.

The Palmdale schools that will go to a year-round schedule this summer are Ocotillo, Manzanita, Yucca, Joshua Hills, Chaparral and Tumbleweed.

The Lancaster district listed Desert View, Monte Vista, New Vista and Sierra as schools that may go year-round starting in mid-1992.