It is not surprising that quality sleep improves academic performance. It may, however, be surprising how much effect it really has on maintaining a consistent sleep cycle.

• Only 20% of adolescents report that they get an optimal nine hours of sleep.
• More than 28% of high school students report that they fell asleep in school at least once a week.
• Only 7% of parents think that their adolescent may have a sleep problem, but 16% of adolescents report sleep problems. One-third of these adolescents never tell anyone about their sleeping difficulties.
• More than one-half (51%) of adolescent drivers have driven drowsy over the past year.