Later Start Times?

Waking up in the morning at 7am can be a huge struggle for teens in this generation. With increasing homework, competitiveness, and once-in-a-while all nighters is putting stress on high-school-age children. 

While some argue that delaying school start times would just cause teenagers to stay up later, however research does not support that idea. Six studies, two of which were randomized control trials, showed that delaying the start of school from 25 to 60 minutes corresponded with increased sleep of 25-77 minutes per week night. In simpler terms, students were waking up later, while still going to bed at the same time. 

Although this might seem like "a dream" in highschool, there are obviously costs to pushing back start times. For example, delaying start times does mean extending school till later. With later school end times, this results in later after-school activities which may interfere with parent's work schedules and run into evening hours. For activities such as football and soccer, outside sports, the instillation of lighting may be necessary. Other costs such as public transportations for most likely low-income families may be an issue. It has been estimated that increased transportation costs would most likely be $150 per student per years. 

Although this may seem like an issue, the added academic benefit of later start times would add up to about 2 additional months of schooling, which would be around $17,500 to a student's earnings over the course of a lifetime. Clearly, the benefits out-weight the costs. To an economic national scale, delaying start times to 8:30 or later would contribute to around $83 billion within a decade. As measured through car crash mortality and increased student lifetime earnings. 

So, the question I have is, is Los Altos Highschool ever going to take this into consideration?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/upshot/the-economic-case-for-letting-teenagers-sleep-a-little-later.html