Carpools

Morning Drop Off and Carpool
The carpool lane in our back lot is the drop off location for all students who arrive between 7:10 and 7:40 a.m. Students are not permitted to enter the school through the front doors between 7:10 and 7:40 a.m. If parents have official school business that they need to tend to, they should drop their child off via the carpool lane, then pull around to the front of the school or church, park and come in. Faculty will be in Kattar Hall with students until the 7:30 a.m. bell rings at which time everyone will proceed to class. In some instances, teachers will allow students to proceed to their class prior to 7:30 a.m. The front door to the school is available for student drop off between 7:00 and 7:10 a.m. and after daily Mass; please ring the doorbell for entry.

Afternoon Carpool (All students participating in afternoon carpool must be registered with the office):

• Registered carpools are given carpool signs that display their assigned number. This sign should be visible on the dashboard of the car at all times during student pick up.
• Changes to a student’s carpool plan for the day must be called in to the office by 2:30 PM to ensure proper communication and that the student goes with the correct person.
• At 2:55, all students are escorted to Kattar Hall where they wait with staff until their carpool number is called; they are then dismissed and escorted to their car.
• Carpool gates open at 2:45 p.m. Please do not arrive earlier than this time to line up along Zarthan Avenue as this causes extra neighborhood congestion and inhibits normal travel patterns.
• Because we are using a neighborhood street for our carpool needs, it is imperative that we are respectful of all homes, driveways, pedestrians, and traffic along Zarthan and Alabama Avenues. Please do not block driveways or intersections.
• The first car to enter the carpool line, parks in rectangle 1A, the second in 2A, third in 3A, until column A is full. When column A is full, the next parent begins column B. When line B is full, the Carpool Captain stops all traffic from entering or exiting the lot and faculty assist students into their cars (see illustration below).
• The Carpool Captains communicate with other staff via walkie talkies throughout the procedure to call numbers and do safety checks.
• When all cars are full, and the Carpool Captains have received an all-clear from the faculty assisting children into their cars, line A will begin to exit. When line A is gone, line B will exit.
• Vehicles should alternate turning left then right on to Alabama to avoid traffic congestion onto Lake Street.