Bob Sikes Elementary School 2024-2025
Arrival and Dismissal Procedures
School Hours – 7:30am – 2:00pm / Front Office Hours – 7:00am – 3:00pm
Arrival –
For the first 3 days of school (Monday – Wednesday), parents/guardians may escort their child(ren) to class but must promptly exit campus no later than 7:30am. Please be mindful that our teachers must provide proper supervision and will not be able to utilize morning drop off to conference with parents/guardians. If you would like to discuss your child’s needs, please notify your child’s teacher that you would like to schedule a parent conference meeting or a conference call.
Please be courteous to each other and to our neighborhood by not blocking driveways or cutting each other off. When using the car line, please only use Texas Parkway to access our car ramp.
Important! To ensure proper supervision, students are not allowed to be dropped off/arrive on campus before 7:00am. (Daycare Before/Afterschool Options are available – Please contact Ms. Horn 850-833- 7268 Option 4 or lakeyia.horn@okaloosaschools.com) Hours – 6:00am – 6:00pm.
Breakfast begins at 7:00am - Staff members will be in the cafeteria to supervise breakfast students and on the car ramp, until they are released to go to their classrooms at 7:15am.
VPK students (Ms. Warren’s Class) are the ONLY students allowed to drop off in the front parking lot (Bus Only area).
Tardy Bell will ring at 7:30am. After 7:30am, parents must accompany their students to the Front Office to check-in.
Safety First – DO NOT drop your student off on the main road. Please use the car line or park in the front grass parking area and allow your student to utilize the cross walk.
Bus Transportation: Bus Route information can be found on the district website at https://www.okaloosaschools.com/page/bus-routes Use the “Infolocator” or access the routes by selecting “Bob Sikes Elementary School” under the North Transportation Routes section. Important: Download the Bus Bulletin app on your devices and choose to receive text messages, phone calls, and e-mails. The Bus Bulletin sends notifications to parents if there are unexpected delays or schedule changes involving a student's bus. If you want to receive these notifications, please register at the Bus Bulletin website (https://app.busbulletin.com/register.php) .
Dismissal – Updated Procedures!
To ensure that your student follows their correct dismissal procedure, NO early dismissals will be allowed after 1:30pm.
Changes in transportation must be requested through written documentation. Please send hard copy written request to your child’s teacher and include your child’s first and last name, child’s homeroom teacher, your contact information, and detail if it will be a permanent change or temporary change.
New Release Order – Dismissal will begin at 2:00pm
Walkers – If your child is a walker (You live within the 2-mile walking zone then your child is considered a walker and may be picked up at one of the designated grade specific areas)
Please adhere to the following pick-up areas:
Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students will be released across the street in the church parking lot area. (KG, 1st and 2nd graders with older siblings will release with their KG-2nd grade sibling. (Ex. If you have a KG student and a 5th grade student, they will be released at the Church parking lot area.)
3rd, 4 and 5th grade students will be released in our front grass parking area.
Car Riders – To speed up the car line, we will be utilizing a double car line system. Instead of loading 6 cars, our new system will allow us the ability to load 12 cars. Once ALL cars loading come to a complete stop, a staff member will help load your student. Our goal is to be the Chick-fil-a of car lines, but we need your help! The poles are now numbered 1-6. As you enter the car line, a staff member will assign your car a pole number and your child will be taken to that assigned pole to load.
Please do not get out of your car.
Please arrange your vehicle so your child can enter on the passenger side.
Please do not use this time for teacher/staff conferences.
Please practice helping your child remember their car rider tag number. The faster they recognize their number, the faster we can load them in your car.
Please adhere to the directives of the staff and be patient as the first two weeks of school always run longer than usual.
Bus Riders – Staff will escort bus riders to their designated bus.
Daycare – Students attending afterschool daycare will be released at the same time we release walkers.
