• Sign posted inside all entrances “All visitors are required to report to the Principal’s office upon entering this building”.  All visitors must sign in and receive a visitor’s pass from the office.

• Teachers have been instructed to inquire of any person (Except school personnel) if they can be of assistance and direct them to the office if they are not wearing a visitor’s pass issued by the office.

• The office is to be notified of any strangers loitering on the premises including the parking lot.

• Students are not permitted on the playground without teacher supervision.

• Parents picking up students are required to come to the office and sign them out.  Students are not permitted to wait outside for them without supervision.

• All outside doors with the exception of the main entrance will be locked during the school day.

• These doors will open to the outside but will not reopen after closing.

• Surveillance cameras (audio & visual) are located throughout the school for security and safety purposes.

• Lockdown and Tornado drills will be held throughout the year.

• Bomb Threats - The Page County Public School System takes bomb threats very seriously and we always keep the safety and security of our students and staff as our primary objective.  Students and their parents should be aware that if bomb threats occur (verbal or written) PCPS will seek the most severe dispositions possible.  These actions include, but are not limited to expulsion from all public schools in the State of Virginia, prosecution in a court of law, juvenile detention, and complete financial restitution to the school system and to Page County as a whole.

Plan For Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic

Recognizing that safety requires the same planning and consideration as sound instruction the following vehicular traffic plan provides the necessary guidelines at Grove Hill Elementary School to insure the safety of all students as they enter and exit school property.

• All school buses will load and unload students in the parking lot behind the school at the handicapped loading area.  Instructional assistants and teachers will supervise students.
• Staff parking will be the parking lot next to Route 340.
• Parent and visitor parking will be in the parking lot next to Route 340.
• Handicapped parking spaces are located in the parking lot in back of the school.  Parents of and handicapped individuals will utilize this area.
• Emergency parking spaces are available in the parking lot of the Community Center.
• Service vehicles may use the access road entering through the gate.
• A member of the safety patrol with a staff member’s supervision will escort to and from the parking lot students being delivered and picked up by parents.  Parents need to sign out students being picked up.  The staff member will also record the student’s departure.
• A staff member and safety patrol will operate the gate controlling the traffic entrance to the back parking lot in both the morning and evening arrivals and dismissals.

Out of District Enrollment

Parents who wish to enroll their child(ren) in a school other than the school in their school attendance area must complete an application form and submit it to the receiving school.  The Principal of that school must certify that the enrollment of the student will not cause the pupil-teacher ratio (excluding self-contained students with disabilities) to exceed 18-1 at grades K-3 and 23-1 at grades 4-7.  Parents must reapply each year thereafter.  Renewal applications will be given preference over new applications.  If re-applications exceed available spaces at a grade level, no such application will be approved.

School bus transportation will be considered on a case by case basis.

Adopted: June 26, 2002
PAGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS