Some last minute wrangling over schedules seems to have worked out in the favor of students at Piner and Maria Carrillo High Schools.

A crew of students from Carrillo showed up at last week’s Santa Rosa School Board meeting to protest the announced cancelation of their Advanced Placement biology class because the number of students enrolled was below the new threshold put in place by the district as a money saving measure.

The students, and a parent, complained that the rigorous class was key to their schedules and that many of them could not make the changes needed to shuffle their entire courseload to make it work.

Turns out the same thing was happening with Piner’s AP economics class.

Emails have been going back and forth between parents and students, and school and district officials in the meantime.

But at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, assistant superintendent Mark Klick said everything at both Maria Carrillo and Piner will go back to the way it was before the confusion started last week.

“The classes will remain, that issue is solved,” he said.

The first few weeks of school are often rife with minor to major schedule changes, depending on how student attendance shakes out and whether students actually show up for the classes they requested last spring.

But concern ran high last spring when the district increased the number of students that would be required to be in an advanced placement class to make it viable. There was widespread fear that many AP classes would be dropped at schools where too few students signed on.

Apparently that almost happened at Carrillo and Piner.