Welcome to Patriot Oaks Academy!

Drop off in the mornings:

• Parents may walk their children to their classrooms on the first day of school only if they choose. (Kindergarten is an exception. Please see kindergarten section below).
• We ask that you drop your child at the classroom door and say your quick goodbye as you head back outside. Please do not linger.
• Our students can arrive to school between 8:00-8:25am (no earlier). We recommend that you aim more towards 8 am so you are not held up trying to manage the drop off lines. They both get longer the closer it gets to school start time (8:25).
• Students may be dropped off in the morning in either lot- red lot (entrance on Long Leaf Pine Pkwy) or blue lot (entrance on Islesbrook). Both are open to all ages in the mornings. Our students enter using two doors in the front of the building only- one in the red lot and one in the blue lot. Bikers and walkers head to the front and enter with the car line students.
• Access Classroom students are to be dropped off in the blue lot in the mornings. That is where we will have additional staff ready to take your child to class. Please have your pink cards in your windshields so we can see that you are pulling up. If your child needs a bit more time to get out of the car, you are free to use the two handicapped parking spots in the blue lot to allow you more time.

Parents, meet your children across the street from campus. We will get them settled with their bikes at their exits and then get them to you. Parents are asked not to cross onto campus.

• Elementary students are picked up in the red lot (entrance on Long Leaf Pine Pkwy).
• Middle schoolers with siblings in kindergarten or 1st grade also are picked up in the red lot. Middle School students will sit on the red benches and wait for their car to be called.
• Please make a sign for your front windshield or use the sign given to you when you joined PTO. Write large (filling the sign) and in thick black marker so we can see it from a distance! Your sign needs to have your child’s/children’s names and grades clearly written like below (Signage for your windshield is only needed for the red lot).
• Middle schoolers and middle schoolers with elementary sibling(s) grades 2-5 are picked up in the blue lot (entrance on Islesbrook). Middle school students are instructed to watch for their cars and keep their siblings with them.
• Access Classroom students: Your children will be dismissed at 2:30 in the blue lot. If they are bus riders, we will escort them to the bus. If you are picking them up, please have your bright pink placard in your windshield and Deputy Beasley will wave you through the car line in blue lot so you can get to the curb where we will assist your child in getting in the car. We ask that you are here at 2:30 so we can safely have your children in the car and on their way prior to the rest of the school dismissing. If you have other children at the school, we ask that you pick up your ESE child first and then join the blue lot line or red lot line to pick up your other children.

In the event of a rainy-day dismissal, please watch your phones as a messages about delayed dismissals will come via text. We will always delay dismissal for lightning. Please opt into text messages to stay connected. For more information on inclement weather click here.

Please fill out the Dismissal Form for any changes to your student’s current dismissal plan.

All early dismissals need to be completed prior to 2:00 (1:00 on Wednesdays).