Determining what is on every page of your yearbook can be a challenge when you first begin the process. What you can include in your yearbook is determined by when you want your yearbook to arrive. If you want to receive your yearbook before graduation (Spring Delivery), you will need to submit your book early enough to allow time for it to be produced and shipped from the yearbook publisher. Check with your yearbook representative for details. If you want graduation included in the yearbook, then you will have Fall Delivery for your yearbook (books will arrive after school reopens in the fall). The book will be submitted in the summer.
• Take the total # of pages in your yearbook and subtract the title, opening, closing, and division pages for all sections.
• Set a goal as to how many advertisement pages you will sell and subtract that from your total.
• With your remaining total, allocate a set # of pages to each section based upon the average %’s listed here.
• Next, review the chart on the next page to determine if you need to shuffle extra pages from your reserves to any section to meet the needs of a section. Start recording all the pages you think you will need. A great tool for accomplishing this is last year’s book. Just make sure the book did not leave anything out if you use it as a guide.
• Now choose the order you wish to place the sections in for proper impact. Please be aware that you do not need to follow the order sampled in the example. You
can choose to begin your yearbook with Student Life if you prefer, and then follow it with another section.
See the sample ladder listed here. In this example, we took the remaining 28 pages and spread them out to people(10), sports(10), and clubs(8) since this school has a very active student body.
Ending your yearbook on a proper page is important. All yearbooks are made up of either
four-or sixteen-page sheets called signatures (16-page signatures are required for Smyth
Sewn books).
Sample Page Allocation Chart
Total Pages: 288 pages
Title/Division/Theme: 18 pgs
Total Adv Page Goal: 50 pgs
REMAINING PAGES: 220 pgs
25%-30% for People: 66 pgs
15%-20% for Academics: 28 pgs
15%-20% for Sports: 28 pgs
15%-20% for Clubs: 28 pgs
20%-25% for Student Life: 42 pgs
REMAINING RESERVE: 28 pgs
Sample Page Ladder
1 title Page
2-3 Opening/Theme Story
4-5 People Division
6-81 Classes & Faculty (76 pgs)
82-83 Academics Division
84-111 Academic Pages (28 pgs)
112-113 Sports Division
114-151 Sports Pages (38 pgs)
152-153 Clubs Division
154-189 Clubs Pages (36 pgs)
190-191 Student life Division
192-233 Student Life Pages (42 pgs)
234-235 Advertisement Division
236-285 Personal/Bus. Ads (50 pgs)
286-288 Closing & Editor Page