About 82,000 students — a record number — will arrive at Anne Arundel County Public Schools this week to start the 2017-2018 school year.

The year begins for most students on Tuesday and, with it, start times will be later. High schools will start 13 minutes later while all other schools start 15 minutes later, according to a release from the school system.

County schools are also using a staggered system to start the school year. The first day of classes for students in grades one through five, six and nine will be Tuesday. The remaining students start Wednesday.

Some schools will open a day later due to ongoing construction projects. These include Chesapeake High School, Severn River Middle School, and Arnold, Brock Bridge, Manor View and Shady Side elementary schools. Central Special School, Marley Glen School and Ruth Parker Eason School will open for all students Wednesday as well.

Arnold Elementary School students will find themselves in a new home for the next two years as their replacement school is built. Students who would attend Arnold Elementary will instead go to classes in space at Severn River Middle School.

Other changes are happening at the school system’s administrative level. The county’s nine-member Board of Education will have two new faces when the school year opens.

Lusia Cole, a student at Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School, is the 46th student member of the Board of Education and the first from a charter school to represent students across the county. Cole is serving a one-year term, and is the only student member of a local Board of Education in the country with full voting rights.

And the School Board Appointment Commission recently appointed Colin Reinhard of Linthicum to fill the vacant at-large seat on the board. Mr. Reinhard will assume his seat as soon as he is sworn in. His term expires on Dec. 2, 2018.

chase.cook@baltimoresunmedia group