Thank you for your continued patience as we try to make our car rider line as efficient as possible given the volume of vehicles we have each day. I am working with GCPS Facilities, Planning, and Construction and the Department of Transportation. They designed our traffic pattern and will be tweaking it to find the best route.

Here are a few tidbits to help us in the meantime.

In the mornings:

• If you arrive to school early, your child must remain in their vehicle until 7:45 bell.
• Follow the traffic pattern
• Pull all the way forward before letting your child out of our vehicle
• Only turn right out of the driveway
• Do not remove barricades or cones
• Do not let your child out of the car in the parking lot or on the side of the road
• After 8:15am, please park and check your child in tardy at the front desk

In the afternoons:

• Pull all the way forward before stopping to let your child in your vehicle
• If you’re checking out your child, the cutoff time is 2:15pm but I would recommend earlier to prevent a delay getting out of the parking lot
• Do not remove barricades or cones

Additionally, I am trying to find a crossing guard to help our walkers cross the driveway to the nearby neighborhoods, but there is a shortage. I have also submitted a request to have a police officer to help direct traffic.

If you are willing to volunteer your time to assist our teachers in the parking lot, I encourage you to use this link to indicate your interest.

Again, thank you for adhering to the abovementioned.

Below is our traffic pattern- please review the BLUE arrows on the map for Alcova ES Parent Drop off and Pick Off Plan.

If you have a emergency transportation change request you must email 978.transportation@gcpsk12.org for the change to be processed. Please use this email only for "day of" emergency changes, where you were not able to send a note in with your student. Change request must be received no later than 1:30 pm to guarantee the change request will be processed.