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.
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.
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. |
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.
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.