Wayzata High School doesn't assign lockers to its upperclassmen anymore, and junior Ellie Olmanson doesn't use one. "I would say maybe one out of every 100 students uses theirs," she said.

In the bustling halls of Wayzata High School, rows of metal lockers line the hallways, just as they have for decades — the quintessential backdrop of teenage life. But almost all of the lockers ...

A less textbook-focused curriculum was adopted by the Lexington-Richland Five school district, which stopped issuing high school students lockers in 2013 due to the usage of tablets and laptops.