Happy Valley School provides transportation to and from school along specified bus routes and for field trips.  Buses are operated in accordance with state and federal safety regulations.  Parents and students sign an agreement regarding bus policies and acceptable behavior on the bus. 

If students walk, ride bicycles or use other personal means of transportation to and from school, parents need to sign a permission form.  Students must remain in an area of staff supervision at all times, and our staff must know how students go home each day.

In the interest of safety, order and parent convenience, student drop-off procedures for arrival in the morning and pick up procedures at dismissal times in the afternoon have been established and published in our Parent Handbook. 

Students may be signed in for Day Care before school as early as 6:15 a.m.  At 7:15 a.m. school staff members are on the curb to help children out of the vehicles dropping them off.  Other staff members supervise children on the playground, including students who were in Day Care, from 7:15 until they go inside for class at 7:55 a.m.  Day Care is also available in the afternoon after dismissal until 6:30 p.m. every day.   

There are 5 different dismissal times for students, depending upon the class level, beginning at 2:00 p.m. for kindergarten and ending at 3:05 p.m. for bus students.  Class dismissals are  divided into 15 minute intervals, except for bus boarding. 

Staff members help students into vehicles at the end of the day, or take them to their assigned buses.  Many parents carpool and students riding in the same carpool are assigned the same dismissal time. 

Classes begin at 8:00 a.m. each day.  At that time students are to be in their seats working, not just arriving on the parking lot.  Buses are scheduled so that students arrive between 7:30-7:45 a.m.  

For Bus Rules, click here.