Getting to School

Regular and punctual attendance is required for student success. Students must be in class in order to receive instruction. A good education requires continuity of instruction; there is no way to make-up the instruction that is presented and missed on any specific day. We will follow all School Board Policies regarding attendance. There are a limited number of days a student may be absent before retention in a grade is mandated by the district and/or transfer status is reviewed.

Please contact the school office at 918-746-8700 by 7:45 a.m. when a student will be absent. Click here for more information about elementary student absences.

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Make-Up Work:

When a child is absent from school, it is their responsibility to get the assignments missed. Teachers will provide missed work after a 24-hour notice.

We face many traffic challenges as parents drop off and pick up their children. Please display patience and courtesy at all times. Please observe the following procedures to ensure our students get to and from class safely.

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Arrival Procedures

• All students should be dropped off at the designated door between 7:15 and 7:25 a.m.
• Drivers should remain in the car during drop off.
• Drivers should park in the designated areas only (southwest side or side streets).
• Please do not block or drive into faculty lots or neighbors.
• Safety patrols will be available at the front door to help students enter the building.
• Doors on 36th Street are locked at all times.

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Bobcat 5-Alive Campaign

Students	Parents
Always use the crosswalks	No cell phone use in traffic
Always stay on the sidewalk	Drive clockwise around Eliot
Cross 36th Street with the guard only	Avoid backing up
Never cross between parked cars	No double parking
Exit/enter your car curbside only. Do not cross traffic.	Obey parking signs.

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Dismissal Procedures

Students will be at the following exit locations:

• Pre-K & Kindergarten
  • Exit at the southwest doors (west cafeteria door) on 36th Place
  • Parents should plan to walk to the faculty parking lot gate to pick up students.
• First Grade
  • Exit at the southeast corner doors on 36th Place.
• Second & Third Grade
  • Exit at the front doors on Rockford.
• Fourth Grade
  • Exit at the northeast doors on 36th Street
• Fifth Grade
  • Exit at the northwest doors on 36th Street

Pick-Up:

• Remain in your car during pick up (except for pre-k and kindergarten families).
• Park in designated ares only.
  • Southwest side or side streets.
• Do not park or drive into faculty lots.
• All students and teachers will promptly leave the building and go to their dismissal area outside:
  • Pre-k and kindergarten (2:30 p.m.)
  • First through fifth (2:35 p.m.)
• Teachers will keep students together until each student is picked up.
• Students who have younger siblings will walk to their sibling's dismissal area and wait to be picked up as a family.
• All teachers will be outside to supervise dismissal.
• Obey the crossing guard.
• All students should be picked up by 2:45 p.m.

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Inclement Weather

Students will remain inside the normal dismissal doors, sitting on the floor. Parents will need to display your car card. Teachers will communicate to the inside teacher, who will call the students' name. Your student will then walk to the car as usual. 

We provide bus transportation for:

• Non-transfer elementary students living 1.5 miles or more from their school; and
• Non-transfer middle school or high school students living 2 miles or more from their school.

Buses may arrive up to 15 minutes after the scheduled stop time. Students should remain at the stop up to 15 minutes after the scheduled stop time. If students wait longer than 15 minutes, call 918-833-8100.

All students must be checked out through the office prior to normal dismissal time. Family members or other approved adults must be listed on the student's emergency form and show proper I.D. to sign a student out.

Please note, when a child is picked up early, he/she is missing the day's closing instruction from the teacher, causing the entire class to be disturbed. Please make every effort to schedule doctor and dentist appointments after school hours.

Tardiness not only deprives your child of valuable classroom experiences, it also disrupts the continuity of the lesson for the other students. We are asking that you help your child develop a responsible work ethic by making sure he/she is present on time and ready to learn.

• Students should be sitting at their desk in class at the 7:30 a.m. bell.
• Students not in their seats at this time will be marked tardy or absent by the teacher.
• Students arriving to the building after 8:00 a.m. must be signed in by a parent/guardian in the office then head to class.

Breakfast

• Breakfast will be served beginning at 7:15 a.m. until 7:45 a.m. in the cafeteria at no cost.

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Certified safe and healthy school

• Please send only healthy snacks. Please refrain from sending sugary snacks such as cookies, cupcakes, and candy; these items are not conductive to the learning process.

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Drinks in school

• Plain water only in class and hallway.
• Do not send your student to school with coffee, cocoa, soda, energy drinks, etc. in the morning.

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Lunch

• Lunch is served to students at not cost.
• Please stop by the office for a visitor sticker if you choose to have lunch with your child.

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Peanut Free School

• Eliot is a peanut free school due to a large number of students with peanut allergies. Please keep peanut products out of the building.