USA: Typically for us, about 7-ish hours, I have to go in the building before classes start before then though, making it about 8 hours. Sometimes, we have half days, but they’re pretty rare. We have all our classes, they’re just very condensed 4-5 hours.
Here, we start at like 07:00 (Mondays 08:10 or so) and we end at 14:50.
Norway: 6-7 hours apparently, from 08:00-14:00 (2: p.m.) or 15:00. (3 p.m.)
We don’t have high school in Ireland.¹
When I was in secondary school in the early 2000s, the day ran from 09:00 to 16:00 Mon to The, and we finished an hour early on Fri. My sister’s school ran from 09:00 to 15:45 every day.
¹I am not being pedantic. Ireland, like Britain, has a two-stage system with primary (5 - 12/13) and secondary (12/12 - 18) schools, in contrast to the tgree-stage system found in France, America, and Japan.
Rural France : 8 to 6, and half-days on Wednesdays.
Or rather, 7.55 (first bell) to 6.
Same for the middle school. My 7th grader’s week goes:
Monday 8-6 (with a free half-period before lunch, and the regular 2-hour lunch break), Tu 8-6
W 9-12 Th 8-5 F 10-5.
(But she’s an overachiever and signed up for several electives. She could shave off 5 hours from her school week.)Anywhere between 8am and 4pm different subjects can be scheduled, each being 50 minutes. Every day can be different, sometimes there’s empty hours between classes. Some days you might have 2 classes, other days 6.
Italy: 5 to 6 h from age 6vro 19. For age 6-11 it’s common to have longer school days (8:00-16:00) to give parents opportunity to pick kids after work.
For age 11-13 it’s almost always from 8am to 13:00.
For age 14-19 depends on school, usually 30 to 36h per week, often on 5 days.
The school I work for runs eight 7 1/2 hours but we could run 7 flat if we had a bigger building or less students. We need three lunch periods to fit them all in the cafeterias.




