Arrival & Dismissal Plan
Justin Elementary 2022-23
Safety First!
- Parents can WALK students up to the school in two locations; the front entrance and up the sidewalk through the ballpark to the bike rack. Parents may not cut through the playground or up to the door at the South Entrance of the building due to traffic patterns and no crossing guard.
- Parents/Guardians may walk their child to class for the first three days. After that, JES staff members are posted in each hallway to greet students, answer questions, and help them get safely to class!
Tardy Bell - 7:40 am.
The doors will close at 7:40 am, so if you arrive in the car line after that time, please drive around to the front of the building to drop off your child. Our counselor, Mrs. Aiduck, is a great resource if you want ideas or need help with morning routines.
No Cell Phone Use in School Zones from 7:00 am. - 4:00 pm. is strictly enforced by Justin PD.
Car Riders
**Morning Car Riders
Your children can be dropped off around the back near the cafeteria and gym or on the south side of the building near K-1 wing.
Students should sit on the passenger side of the vehicle and know how to release their seat belt to exit the car. For everyone's safety, drivers must remain behind the wheel with their car in park while loading and unloading. Do not exit your vehicle to assist your child. JES staff members will be on the sidewalk to greet students and will be available if your child needs assistance.
When the car line stops, all students exit the car (like Six Flags) and walk along the sidewalk to enter the building. Due to time constraints and backed up traffic, your child should be ready to jump out when the car stops. We need to unload 12 cars at one time around the back and 6 cars at a time at the South entrance. JES staff members will be on the sidewalk to greet students and will be available if your child needs assistance.
All students eating breakfast and Pre-K students should be dropped off around the back of the school and walk down the sidewalk to enter the building through the Cafeteria door.
***The car line from the Back and the South must alternate traffic to keep the lines moving. Two lanes exit the school property turning left and turning right on to Boss Range Road. (Please refer to the map below.)
**Afternoon Car Riders
Pick up your 2nd - 5th graders in a single file line wrapping around the BACK of the school from Boss Range Road.
PreK, Kinder, and 1st graders load into cars that come from Ovaletta Drive and are parked along the curb of the South exit doors.
Six cars are stopped while 6 teachers walk students to their car, loading on the passenger side of the vehicle. Once everyone is loaded safely, all 6 cars are released at the same time. Drive slowly because the carpool line from the back of the building merges with PreK, K, 1st car line.
***If you have a child in an upper grade AND a lower grade, pick up both children with the youngest at the SOUTH PreK/K/1st grade door. Older siblings will walk down the hall to sit with their younger siblings. Please arrive after 3:05 pm. so that your older child has time to reach the south door. If you arrive earlier and your older child is not present, you will need to exit and then re-enter the carpool line again.
A JES employee reads the student names from a car sign hanging from your rear view mirror and radios the student GRADE and NAME to the waiting area. Car signs will be handed out at "Meet the Teacher" and the first morning of school.
The car line normally takes 15 minutes to completely finish, but please expect it to take 45 minutes during the first few days of school. If cars are backed up on Boss Range Road, do NOT block the front entry and exit driveway in front of the school or the intersection at Ovaletta. The school buses must dismiss on time to stay on schedule.
Walkers
NORTH walkers will be supervised while crossing the JES carpool line on the sidewalk between the school and the Hardeman neighborhood from 7:20-7:40 am. and after school.
EAST walkers and bikers travel on the sidewalk through the City of Justin baseball fields. JES staff will cross students through carpool traffic to enter and exit the school. **After school, JES staff will walk students to the yellow pole at the edge of the school property. If you want to meet your child as a walker/biker, you can wait at the yellow pole or sit on the metal bleachers. Please do NOT attempt to walk across the car line traffic to wait near the building.
**Be aware that if you are waiting for your "walker" in the parking lot across Ovaletta Drive or your child walks/bikes home alone, your child will be unsupervised after leaving school property. There is not a crossing guard supervising the students. The City of Justin purchased a "lighted pedestrian crosswalk" near the park in Ovaletta Drive. If your child is a bike rider or a walker, we encourage you to come practice having your child stop on the sidewalk, wait for the light, and then assess when safe to cross.
**All walkers/bikers will proceed in the rain unless you call the front office before 2:00 pm. to let us know about a ride change. 817-215-0800.
Daycare
Afternoon Daycare students will be walked to the parking lot near the playground to meet representatives from the various day cares that pick up.
**AlphaBest students will walk to the cafeteria for their afternoon program. When parents pick up, park in the back of the school and ring the doorbell on the cafeteria door.
Bus Transportation
**AM Buses line up at the front of the school in the morning to drop off between 7:20-7:30 am. JES staff members are there to greet your child at the front door of the school. Students that ride the bus arrive early enough to eat breakfast.
**PM Buses are double stacked in two rows at the front of the school starting at 2:40 pm. If you are parked in the front parking lot at that time, you will be blocked in and cannot get out until buses drive away at 3:10 pm.
There is a JES staff member assigned to each bus and holding a colored Bus # sign. Students in K-2 will have a bus tag taped to their backpack strap with a color that coordinates with their bus color. Kinder and 1st grade students start a few minutes before the dismissal bell and are walked out to the buses in a single file line to make sure they find their bus.
Bus routes are determined by the students home address. Students cannot ride home with friends on another bus unless prior approval is granted ahead of time.
**If your child has a problem on the bus, please communicate the specifics with the driver and call JES to speak with an administrator. All students should feel safe on their bus route to and from school. Riding the bus is a privilege, not a right. Students can have consequences or removal from bus service if misbehavior is persistent.
Ride Changes - Deadline 2:00 pm.
Justin Elementary
Email: JustinElem@nisdtx.org
Website: www.nisdtx.org/Justin
Location: 425 Boss Range Road, Justin, TX, USA
Phone: 817-215-0800
Facebook: facebook.com/JustinElementaryFamily
Twitter: @JustinJags