Transportation Procedures

Gale-Bailey Elementary School Transportation Procedures 2025-2026

ID To Enter Building

As a reminder, in order to enter any school building, you must present your photo ID, which will also be used to provide you with a visitor’s sticker/pass from the visitor’s sign-in machine.

Arrival Times

CHILDREN ARE NOT TO BE DROPPED OFF TO SCHOOL BEFORE 8:55 A.M. We do not have staff available to monitor student safety. Students who are not participating in a school-sponsored activity or AlphaBest should not arrive before 8:55 a.m. All students who arrive after 9:10 a.m. must be signed in at the main office by a parent or guardian.

Dropping off Students in the AM

Begins at 8:55 AM.

All students must be in their classroom seats by 9:10AM in order NOT to be marked tardy. When dropping children off at school, parents must use the designated parent drop-off area which when entering the parking lot, turn right and follow the arrows to pull up curbside (where daycare vans drop off) and two staff members will greet you to help unload. Students must exit from the right of the vehicles onto the sidewalk once the school staff member gets to your vehicle. For the safety of all students and staff, please DO NOT allow your student(s) to get out of the car without a staff member present as our school staff are ensuring all students are exited from cars onto the sidewalk safely. Parents, for safety concerns, are NOT to use the bus lane, or Staff Parking Lot to drop children off.

Parent Pick Up in the PM

Begins at 3:40 PM

Students will not be released after 3:15 p.m. To have your child dismissed early at the end of the day as an early dismissal, you must be in the main office before 3:15 p.m. Calls to retrieve students from class will not be made after 3:15 p.m.

If your child’s afternoon transportation method is changing, you must notify the front office or the Assistant Principal. Parents are required to submit an afternoon schedule change preferably the day before the change is to occur, or by 11 a.m. the same day. You can send your request to Lisa Jones in the front office (limjones@ccboe.com), or you can send your request our Assistant Principal, Ms. Parsons at (mrparsons@ccboe.com).

Those students being picked up by their parents or guardians at the end of the school day will need to park and come sign their student (s) out with their teacher near the flagpole area. Teachers will not bring students to your car. The teachers across all grade levels will be located near the covered walk-way. They will have clipboards in hand for you to sign your child out, and they will be checking for your photo ID and will ensure that you are listed on the Emergency card, as well.

Bus Riders

Students who ride the bus in the afternoon will be dismissed at 3:45 pm. Teachers and designated staff will escort them to their dismissal locations to ride the bus home. Please, remember that transportation is a privilege, not a requirement. School bus privileges can be suspended for behavior problems and violations of school policy. Please, remind your child of the bus expectations to ensure they are safe while they are riding each day.

ALL Kindergarten and Pre-K students MUST be met at the bus stop by a parent. Arrangements can be made for a sibling to pick them up/supervise them at the bus stop – please email Ms. Parsons (mrparsons@ccboe.com) with that information.

Traffic Safety Procedures

1. All traffic is one-way. Based upon feedback, we have tried to provide more options for our parents with the drop-off and in particular, pick-up process, at the end of the day. By having all lanes as one-way, we feel that this will provide a safer environment for our students, parents, and staff. ONLY parents/guardians dropping off in the morning, daycare vans, and school buses will enter through the school lot in one direction (coming in the opening to the right of the school and exiting through the same area (please do not drive through the bus parking lot area). Parent pick up and daycare vans will enter through the back lane near the parked cars to pick up students and school buses will pull up to the front of the school (curb side) to pick up their students. We thank you in advance for following our traffic patterns.
2. Please make sure that you look both ways before moving, as we will have students walking in the crosswalks to enter cars and to load into their daycare vans.
3. We will require patience from all for the first few weeks until we get everything worked out. We appreciate you being patient and following the guidelines provided above to help ensure that all our children return home safely each day.

Transportation Procedures