To improve afternoon pick-up, the following adjustments will be made beginning tomorrow, Thursday, August 22, 2024.
Pick-up Student Readiness
Students should be alert, attentive, and readying themselves to get in cars as quickly and safely as possible. Having students of all ages ready to get in vehicles when it's their turn keeps the pick-up line moving.
Pick-up Time - All Buildings
For the first school day, families arrived as early as 2:15pm to pick-up their children. No one should arrive on campus to pick-up students until at least 2:50pm, and in some situations discussed below, families should arrive even later.
Car Window Tags - Elementary
For parents and families picking-up multiple students in the elementary car rider line, please remember to have your children's names and grade levels displayed on the inside of your windshield. If you are picking-up middle and high school siblings in the elementary line, their names and grades should be posted as well.
Car Rider Location
Elementary children are released earlier than middle and high school students to allow additional time for organization and staging. Middle and high school students being picked up in the elementary, car rider line must wait with the youngest child in the family. Meaning, an 11th grader, 5th grader, and 2nd grader will all wait together with the second-grade class to be picked up at the same time.
Elementary Car Rider Timing
Mrs. Blankenship will not begin "calling cars" until 3:00pm. Middle and high school students are not released until their last period classes end at 3:00pm. Therefore, Mrs. Blankenship will begin calling cars transporting elementary children only at 3:00pm.
Parents and families planning to pick-up middle/high school students with their younger children should not arrive and enter the elementary pick-up line until at least 3:05pm. This will allow middle and high school students enough time to travel from the other side of the facility.
Walker Pick-up Location
For walkers, middle and high school students will meet elementary siblings at the kindergarten doors (if planning to walk across Milton-Potsdam Road toward home) or outside the elementary gymnasium (if planning to walk through Lowry toward home). Parents and families meeting student walkers will wait outside the elementary playground gate near the gymnasium or the kindergarten doors. Parents and families meeting their walkers should avoid the sidewalk/car rider pick-up line.
Thank you for your patience!