Dear Students and Parents,
I hope you have had an excellent Spring Break and are ready for the remainder of the school year. We would like to share exciting news as you return to school in that construction on the new school is beginning in the next week. This is an exciting time to be a Buffalo, but it will bring some changes and challenges to the Junior-Senior High Site. Our great concern is the safety of our students and staff. The construction site will have a fence and students must stay out of this area as it will be unsafe. There will also be limitations to the site for parking. If possible, we would ask that students limit themselves to one vehicle per family. Attached is a top view of the site with an explanation of the construction area and where students are allowed to park. Below is an explanation of the parking and transportation plans. The remainder of operations for the school should be similar to what your students have experienced since moving to the modular campus. I am sure the first week or two will be a learning experience for everyone and we will direct students to additional changes as we learn our new situation.
Our students and staff have shown a tremendous amount of resilience as we have navigated our situation. Every situation is an opportunity for our students to learn how to handle obstacles and I truly believe our students have learned valuable skills that will help them in their future endeavors.
Thank you for your continued support as we move forward with the construction of the new school.
Eric Stoddard
Superintendent
USD 105-Rawlins County
Overhead of Site:
Yellow: Construction Site - Students and staff are not allowed in this area. It is a construction site and not safe.
Red: Staff Parking - This is the same area that staff has used for their parking since moving to the modular campus.
Blue: Transportation and Maintenance - This area is to be left open from parking for Transportation and Maintenance operations.
Green: Senior Parking - This area will be used for Seniors to park.
Purple: General Student Parking - The only change is if the conditions of the hill are not suitable due to construction activities or the weather. Also, a purple line follows the track to the modular campus. Students should go directly from the parking area to the track as there will be construction activities in between the school and the stadium that won’t allow student passage.
If all areas are full, students are allowed to park in the city streets as long as they follow applicable parking laws within the city.
Transportation:
In regard to students who ride the route buses:
Elementary school drop-off and pick-up locations and times will not change
Junior and Senior High students will be dropped off at the elementary school in the morning and shuttled to the high school on the breakfast bus.
Junior and Senior High students will be shuttled to the elementary school in the afternoons. These students will be dismissed at the end of 7th hour (3:21)
Route buses will hold at the elementary school to allow for the shuttled students to arrive.
In regard to band and choir students:
Band students who eat breakfast at the elementary school will simply stay at the cafeteria until band begins.
Please remind those students to be respectful of others while they are waiting for band to begin.
Band students who do not eat breakfast but ride the route buses will disembark at the elementary school and wait in the cafeteria.
Band students that do not eat breakfast and park at the High school will be shuttled down after the breakfast bus has dropped students from breakfast off at the high school.
These students, depending on drop-off time, will report either to the cafeteria to wait for band to start or report directly to the band room IF Mrs. Schmidt is in the room.
Reminder to all staff, that junior high and high schools students should only be in the cafeteria prior to band, they should not be roaming the halls.
Choir students will be shuttled down at the beginning of 6th hour (high school). Junior High choir will be shuttled down at the end of 6th hour and the high school choir picked up to be returned at the beginning of 7th hour.
In regard to lunch shuttles:
Junior High and High School students riding the lunch shuttle will proceed to the bus pick up and drop off location on 8th street.
Pick-up and drop-off times will not change.
Please remind all the Junior High and Senior High students of the increased need to be vigilant when leaving the parking lot in the presence of pedestrians.
In regard to activities/after-school sports:
The 6th grade track participants will still be picked up at 3:15 and shuttled to either the East Hill Drive gate or the 8th Street PU/DO location, depending on construction and fence locations.