• Students may be dropped off between 7:30 & 8:00 am. 
• When dropping off students, please pull your car as far forward in the pick up/drop off lanes (right and left lands).
• As soon as the student is dropped off, please pull forward to prevent other traffic issues.
• For the safety of students and parents, please cross the driving lanes at the crosswalk.
• Children always have the right away. They may forget to look for you so please watch out for them.
• Do not park and leave your car unattended in these lanes. They are designed for pick up/drop off only.
• Parents/guardians will not be permitted to  walk students inside the building until further notice. Thank you for your patience & understanding. 
• Breakfast will be open for students beginning at 7:30. 

 

 

 

The options for students to be picked up for the 2022-2023 school year are: 

Please think about the following pick up methods offered:

• Car Rider-Remain in your car and drive to front of school. (Line can be very long. Students wait in classroom until your are announced in PIkMyKid) . Parents will stay in their cars in line A or B. Parents are to stay in their cars. Please do not get out and help your child get into the car. Please do not get out to help buckle carseats. 

• Park and Ride-Park in the neighborhood and walk to side garden area to pick up your child (Moves very quickly and students wait inside until you announce yourself at the gate.

• Bus-Student rides a GISD bus

• Day Care-Student is picked up by daycare 

• Walker-Walkers are led across the street by a staff member and walk home.

 

• Car Line
• Bus 
• Daycare
• Park and ride will be released to the garden gate. 
• Independent walkers

 Park and ride has returned this year! Please park across the street at the restaurant or in the neighborhood. Do NOT park in the bus loop or staff parking spaces, thank you. 

Car Line: In our ongoing efforts to enhance your children’s safety, we have chosen to use the PikMyKid Dismissal Application. Throughout the country, it has been proven to simplify dismissal, reduce traffic congestion, and most importantly, improve overall safety.

The unique features of PikMyKid allow you, as parents, to easily change pick up modes, quickly delegate to an alternate individual for pickup, change to an ‘After School’ program, and even schedule for future pickup mode, pickup individual, and after school programs. This app allows you to be in full control of your child’s dismissal and it gives us, the school, complete information regarding dismissal and the ability to acknowledge every change and to instantly check your child’s dismissal status should you have a question.

We are very excited about this addition and know you will be too. To learn a little more on your own, please check out the following link that will show you a few of the PikMyKid features. PikMyKid

Thank you for your attention to this matter. The students, teachers, and staff strive for a safe environment to learn. Please do your part to make sure every student at Hillside Academy has the opportunity to arrive and leave school safely.

Any changes to your child's transportation MUST be provided in writing. In making changes, the following should be included:

• Student's I.D number
• Bus number
• Student name
• Date of change requested
• Days student will not ride

If a student is not bus eligible, the bus can not be a method of transportation.

A student must be in the front door by 8:10 a.m. to avoid a tardy. Tardies, according to GISD policy, will be reflected on the report card whether they are excused or unexcused. For accounting purposes, a tardy is equal to a partial absence. Excessive tardies can become an attendance problem.

All students must be checked out of school by front office personnel. Before releasing a student to an adult, the adult must sign the student out and a picture I.D. shown. Parents who call to give us a message about releasing their child to walk home or be picked up by someone other than parent must give the office the student's ID number and person picking up the student must be one of the student's contacts on our student information card.

The following list of daycares pick up from our campus after school

• Kids Kingdom
• Mt. Hebron
• New World
• Oak Park Day School
• First Baptist CDC
• Taxi Mom
• Student Taxi
• Willis early Learning Center
• Kids Green Acres
• Lake Cities
• Salvation Army
• Blue Ivy
• Ms. Gonzales

• Pecan Ranch

• Happy Days

• Rowlett Martial Arts Center 

• Little Butterflies Daycare Center

By law, the district must have an immunization record for each student on file. These records should be up-to-date at the time of registration. Records must show the month, day and year of each dose of vaccine and must be validated by a physician’s signature or a public health clinic card. Children entering Garland ISD for the first time must present written verification of the required immunizations at the time of enrollment.

Required Immunizations

All medications brought to school by a student shall be prescription only, and in a properly labeled bottle. Medications should be accompanied with a Medication Policy-Parent Permission form filled out requesting that the medications be taken at school. Medications will be kept in the clinic in a locked cabinet. It is the responsibility of your child to report to the clinic to take his/her medication. Please alert us if your child has a special medical problem. More information can be found at the GISD Health Services webpage.

We welcome your visits to our school.

Lunch will be open campus this year; however, there will be limited seating per lunch period. You will be required to sign up to reserve a space to join your child for lunch. Please utilize the sign up link that is in this correspondence and will be available on our school website. You will not be permitted to have lunch with your child if you are not on our sign up, which will be monitored daily. 

Writing a note to the school is the best way to manage changes in your child' routine and to emphasize the safeguard of students. We do know there are times and situations when parents must call and have messages given to their children. When these occasions do arise, the office staff will ask you to identify yourself by giving your child's student identification number. The ID number is on student report cards and students use this number in the cafeteria and in the computer labs. If the caller is not able to give the student identification number of the child, the message will not be given to the student. This is a district policy and is implemented for the safety of your child.

At the end of the first three weeks of a grading period, the school district provides notice of progress to the parent or guardian of a student whose grade average in any class if lower than 70 or whose grade average is deemed borderline.

Report cards will be sent each Thursday following the end of a nine week period. Students in Speech will receive a speech progress sheet to send home each nine weeks in the child's report card. Please contact your child's teacher with any questions or concerns. 

It is vital to keep information current. If any information changes during the year, please report to school with the changes. We must be able to contact you if your child has an emergency.