First Day of School Logistics

• The first day of school is posted on the DPS calendar. On the first morning of the school year, all students should gather on the playground on the east side of the school (ECE students and parents should go directly to their classroom). Each classroom teacher will have a sign with his/her name and classroom number, and students will gather with their class to be led to their classroom when the bell rings at 8:50. Parents are welcome to accompany their child to the classroom for a brief time to help them get settled.

• If you have not yet completed registration for your child at Brown International Academy, please go to the front office by entering the doors on the west side of the school. The staff there will help you register and provide you with your student’s classroom location and teacher’s name. You must register your child prior to sending him/her to class.

• Welcome booths with refreshments will be setup outside the school and volunteers will be available to answer questions and provide you with school information.  

• At the end of the day, students in grades 1-5 and kindergartners in room 107 will be gathered outside of the doors on the playground on the east side of the school – parents are asked to pick up their children there. Please do not pick up your child inside the school because it is disruptive to learning that is occurring in our classrooms. Kindergarten students in rooms 108 and 109 will be picked up on the kindergarten playground. ECE students in room 110 will be picked up at the ECE classroom door on the building’s west side. ECE students in room 102 will be picked up outside the school’s main entrance, also on the west side.

• Parking for drop-off is available on all streets around the school. Spaces directly in front of the main west-side doors are reserved for buses, so please do not park there. Also be mindful of the city’s street sweeping no-parking times, which vary by street (April-November).

• Bicycle stands are available to those students who are riding their bike to school. They are on the east side next to the cafeteria doors and Community Garden.

• Lunches cost $1.40 each; the reduced fee is 40 cents.Lunches may be paid online at MyLunchMoney.com, or directly to the cafeteria staff using cash or check. Students are issued a lunch card by their teacher in the classroom, and they give the card to cafeteria staff when buying their lunch. The paraprofessional will return students’ cards to the classroom for them. Children with free or reduced lunch will have a lunch card that works the same way. Lunch menus are distributed monthly by the school and are also available online at http://foodservices.dpsk12.org/menus.html.

• Please have your child bring a backpack (marked with first and last name) for storing homework, weekly take-home folders, hats/gloves and a lunchbox, if he or she brings lunch to school. ECE and kindergarteners keep their backpacks in the classroom; grades 1-5 hang them up in the hallway.

If you have any questions, feel free to call the front office staff at 303-477-1611.