At the start of each academic year, we have a procedure in place with our families to obtain updated information for every student enrolled in BCSD. This information is crucial to various departments in the district, such as the main office, school nurse, and technology department. Please log in to your Final Forms account to ensure all details are up to date.

Stay up-to-date on BCSD events by checking out our newly improved District Calendar.

Please refer to the approved calendar when making plans throughout the school year.

2023-2024 School Calendar

2023-2024 Brunswick (Kidder) Preschool

Our parent resources page contains links to forms and information you will need now and throughout the year.

There are only a couple of weeks until the start of school! We hope our students had the opportunity to read a lot over the summer. Click HERE for summer reading information.

All schedules, including the elementary, will be available through ProgressBook. Principals will send information to all parents as soon as student schedules are available.

• If you are new to the district, you will receive an email with detailed directions, including login credentials to ProgressBook.

• If you forgot your password, click on the forgot password link (provided in the portal), and you will receive an email with directions to reset your password.

• If you do not have an account, please contact the building secretary, and they will be able to provide a key for you to create an account.

BCSD will continue to provide breakfast and lunch for students in need. Students who qualify for free breakfast and lunch may also be eligible to have their school fees waived. Students who qualify for reduced breakfast and lunch for the 2023-2024 school year will receive free breakfast/lunch. Should you have questions regarding this process, please contact the Food Services Office at 330-273-0370.

Please complete and return the Household Information Survey application if you wish to maintain other benefits granted through free meal benefits such as P-EBT benefits and school fees waived.

The Federal Income Eligibility Guidelines will be used to determine eligibility. Children from families whose annual income is at or below the Federal Guidelines are eligible for free meal benefits.

Household Information Survey applications are available under the forms section of the website (click here) and at the main office in each school. To apply for free benefits, households should complete the application and return it to the school. A complete form is required. Households that currently receive Special Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits (SNAP, formally known as food stamps) or Ohio Works First (OWF) funds for a child must provide the child’s name and the SNAP or OWF case number and signature of an adult household member on the application. Households that do not receive SNAP or OWF funds must:

• provide the names of all household members

• provide the last four digits of the Social Security Number of the adult signing the application or state “none” if the adult does not have a Social Security number

• provide the amount and source of income received by each household member (state the monthly income)

• an adult household member must sign the application.

The school cannot process the application if any of this information is missing.

Families with children eligible for school meals may be eligible for FREE health care coverage through Medicaid and/or Ohio’s Healthy Start & Healthy Families programs. These programs include coverage for doctor visits, immunizations, physicals, prescriptions, dental, vision, mental health, substance abuse, and more. Please call 1-800-324-8680 for more information or to request an application. Information can also be found on the web at The Ohio Department of Medicaid (click here). Anyone who has an Ohio Medicaid card is already receiving these services.

The information provided on the application is confidential. It will be used only to determine eligibility and may be verified at any time during the school year by school or other program officials. To discourage the possibility of misrepresentation, the application forms contain a statement above the space for signature, certifying that all information furnished is true and correct. Applications are being made in connection with the receipt of federal funds. Therefore, schools or other officials may check the information on the application at any time during the school year. Deliberate misrepresentation of information may subject the applicant to prosecution under applicable state and federal laws.

The Household Information Survey application must be printed, completed, and submitted to the Brunswick Board of Education or printed, completed, scanned, and emailed to Karen Becker, Food Service Coordinator at kbecker1@bcsoh.org.

Households will be notified of the approval or denial of benefits.

You can pay your child’s fees through MySchoolBucks beginning the first day of school and at any time throughout the school year. Please click HERE for more information about school fees.

School supply lists for students in kindergarten through 8th grade can be found under “Quick Links” on each building homepage of the BCSD website or by clicking HERE. Brunswick High School teachers will share their class-specific school supply lists on the first day of school.

Be sure to review the student handbook(s) for the student dress code for your student: Click on the school name below to access your school’s handbook:

Bus Stop and Route Information

Accurate Bus Route Information will be available for Kindergarten through Grade 12 students when face-to-face instruction begins.

• You can find your students' busing information on the transportation department web page: www.bcsoh.org/transportation.

• Please remember that at the start of the school year, the transportation department is extremely busy. Therefore, if you submit an address change or childcare transportation request, please be aware that it may take a couple of days to handle your request.

My Stop App

• The Brunswick City Schools Transportation Department uses the Versatrans My Stop APP to give parents the ability to see their child(ren) 's bus status in real-time. You can download the app via Google Play or the Apple Store to install it on your mobile device.
  
  Parents can log in by clicking here using their primary phone number as the username and password. Parents who cannot log in using their phone number may call the Transportation Department for assistance at 330-273-0227.

Versatrans Login Instructions

• If you have never logged into Versatrans before, please use the student's primary phone number used on Final Forms as the username and password. Once a parent/guardian has logged in, they may change their password. To change the password:

• Click on the "OPTIONS" tab

• Click on the "CHANGE USER PROFILE" tab

• Complete the requested information and then click on the "UPDATE USER PROFILE" tab

• After the initial login, parents/guardians simply click "STUDENT" and "VIEW MY STUDENTS."

• Next, go to the tab on the top titled "Students" and then "View My Students" (students will show up). After the initial login, parents would simply click "Student" and "View My Students" when logging back in.

Board policy 5320 states: In order to safeguard the school community from the spread of certain communicable diseases and in recognition that prevention is a means of combating the spread of disease, the Board of Education requires all students to be immunized in accordance with State statutes, unless specifically exempt for medical or good cause including religious conviction. This policy pertains to students currently attending school in the District and those eligible to attend. Click here to see specific details regarding each immunization needed for school attendance.

If someone other than a person(s) listed as an emergency contact will pick your child up from school, please remember that a phone call and update in Final Forms will be required. Please follow these simple steps:

• Call the school to request that a person not listed as an emergency contact needs to pick up your child. The building secretary will verify the number you are calling from as a number listed in our student system.

• You will need to update emergency contacts in FinalForms before someone new can pick up your child. Changes submitted are immediately viewable.

• The building staff will verify the identity of the person picking up the child; be sure the person picking up the child brings a driver’s license or a state ID.

Interested in attending Blue Devil middle school and high school athletic events AND want to save money? The Athletic Department offers a variety of sport passes for students and adults. For more information, please click HERE.

Thank you to the Brunswick Athletic Foundation (BAF) for making a $7,500 donation to the Brunswick Athletic Department to cover the cost of admission for BCSD students to attend all home BHS and BMS athletic events, excluding Varsity Football and Boys Basketball & Girl/Boy Basketball combo events. BCSD students in grades 6-12 will show their BCSD student ID at the gate to be admitted for free. BCSD students in grades K-5 will be admitted free with their parent's paid admission of an adult ticket or use of a BHS Athletic Pass. To learn more about BAF, please click HERE.

Check out the Athletic Department website to stay up-to-date on schedules and scores!

To learn more about how you can support the Marching Blue Devils, please visit the Brunswick Band Parent Organization WEBSITE.