Walking through the silver-lined doors of the school before the first-period tardy bell rings, the two siblings struggle to find their way to their classes in the unfamiliar, crowded hallways.

“I got lost a couple of times,” sophomore Lisa Basset said.

After attending private school for the past six years, Lisa and Aaron Basset changed to public school at the second semester.

“Kintergarten through first grade I was home-schooled, second through third grade I went to Gideon and then I went to Summit International Prep from fourth up until last semester,“ Lisa said.

Lisa said they still find everything a public high school has to offer astounding.

“We had one gym that doubled as the cafeteria, auditorium and anything that we needed it for,” Lisa said. “It was just a really small campus.”

Lisa said that it’s not just the school’s outer appearance that they had to adjust too, but what goes on in the classrooms as well.

“I am in AP World History, and we have an inverted classroom so we watch the videos at night and do the homework in class,” she said. “It keeps me accountable for actually knowing the information.”

Aaron said he was intrigued by all the classes he had the opportunity to take here.

“There are a lot more options for electives that you can take and even for core classes,” he said. “At my old school, all the science classes we had were physics, chemistry and biology.”

He said they moved because of administration and academic changes.

“The main reason my sister and I moved schools was because the school we came from kept changing the administration,” Aaron said. “The teachers didn’t really teach anymore and the ones that did were leaving.”

Lisa said transferring during the middle of a school year could have been confusing, but they had students to support them.

“I knew people here already, but I didn’t have any classes with them,” she said. “Marilyn Downing is in some of my classes and she came up and introduced herself to me.”

The faculty members also helped them to adjust.

“I was behind (in PreCalculus) and so (teacher Erica) Marburger worked with me to get me caught up and (told) me to come to her if I needed help with anything,” Aaron said.

Marburger said she had experience with students who have transferred from prep schools before.

“I figured out what they had already learned, so that I could catch them up with what my class was doing,” she said.

Marburger said Aaron is adapting well.

She said, “He’s doing great, plus he knew some of the kids already.”