Parent Student Handbook

✓ Drop Off and Pick Up - Please park and walk your child to the entry. Alternatively, you may drop off your student at 8:45. Adult supervision begins at 8:45. If driving through the drive through, please pull all the way forward to get cars off the street as soon as possible.

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This group of dedicated Meadow Ridge Ridge parents and guardians actively involved in supporting our school with fundraisers, creative ideas, and lots of volunteer help. Your participation is most welcome.

Students will have music twice per week and PE three times per week.

Our library is well stocked with fiction, non-fiction, and reference materials. Students go to the library with their class once per week. The library is not open before or after school.

Families and Agencies Coming Together is the service integration project of the Greater Albany Public School District. The program's mission is to link school staff, students, and their families with available community resources that best meet their needs.

The Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Albany operates a before and after school program for Meadow Ridge each day school is in session (with limited exceptions). Please contact the school office if you need more information.

▪ First Report: Conference with an administrator. If the report is for fighting or other serious misconduct, more severe consequences may result. School consequences may also be given.
▪ Second Report: Lose the privilege of riding the bus for three days for minor misconduct that does not create...

The school district provides bus transportation for many students. The school board decides which students are eligible to ride a bus based on boundaries it sets. Additional information on bus routes is available at the school office or by contacting the Transportation Department (541-967-4626).

Dress and Appearance Responsibility for a student’s dress and grooming rests primarily with the students and their parents. The district expects student dress and grooming to meet standards that are not a disruption or interference with the classroom learning environment...

Consequences are designed to help prevent future inappropriate behavior. They will vary depending upon the situation and factors such as severity, frequency, previous behavior, cooperativeness, etc. There will always be a reteaching component as part of the response. 

▪ Be safe, respectful, and responsible
▪ Follow adult directions in a respectful manner
▪ Be respectful of everyone’s personal space and property
▪ Walk quietly through the building, on the right side of the hall, keeping hands to self
▪ Use quiet voices inside the building and in the bus line
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Students are not allowed to fight, threaten to fight, or encourage each other to fight. Students who see a fight about to start, a fight in progress, or have information about a potential fight should inform an adult immediately.

Kelso’s Choices is a conflict resolution program taught by our school counselor. The program is a powerful and timely tool to build a vital life skill for the young people in today’s world. The program philosophy is simple: each child is smart enough and strong enough to resolve conflict.

This school-wide program promotes appropriate student behavior in several ways. Safe, respectful and responsible behaviors have been identified for every setting on our campus. Teachers teach these behaviors to their students and practice them.

We expect every student and staff member to act with...

Parents/guardians have the right to expect the school will be a safe and healthy place for students. We all have responsibility for preventing the spread of communicable diseases and illnesses.

Students taking any kind of medication (including cough drops and other over-the-counter or prescription) must have an Authorization for Medication Administration Form completed and on file in the office.

All kindergarten and first grade students are screened for hearing loss in the fall. Any other student may be screened with a parent/guardian request. Parents/guardians will be notified if their student doesn’t pass the hearing test.

Homemade food cannot be shared with your child’s peers. Some students may have life threatening food allergies (such as nuts) that may cause serious harm or death if they ingest or come into contact with the food.

Textbooks are provided to all students depending on subject matter. Students are asked to treat them with care. Students and parents/guardians are responsible for the cost of repair or replacement of damaged or lost textbooks.

Any cell phone brought by a student should be turned off during the school day (this includes lunch and recess) and be stored in a backpack where it won’t be a distraction. If students need to call home during the school day they may do so in the office with permission.

Students are required to have permission from a staff member before going to the office to use the telephone. Permission from office staff is also required before using the telephone.

Every student can be proud of Meadow Ridge’s school campus. To maintain this pride, every student should help to keep the building and grounds neat, clean and safe. Every student has the responsibility as a school citizen to report any damage, accidental or otherwise, of school property.

Breakfast and lunch is free for all Meadow Ridge students.

If it becomes necessary to close, delay the start, or release school early, parents/guardians will be notified through ParentSquare, local radio and television, and the district website: http://albany.k12.or.us/. You may also view closure information on the www.flashalert.net website. 

The safety of students and staff is our highest priority. When a student is injured at school, we will contact you if it appears the injury is more serious than a bump, bruise, scrape, or minor cut.

Students should not bring personal items to school unless pre-arranged with their teacher for sharing time. Staff will hold these items until returned to a parent or guardian. Some items, such as pocket knives, may result in the student receiving serious consequences.

In alignment with Executive Order 29-05, recently signed by Governor Kotek, and the Greater Albany Public School Board’s adoption of Board Policy JFCEB: Personal Electronic Devices, Albany schools will be implementing a new policy regarding personal electronic devices.

Please read our volunteer guidelines and policy here.

Please see the district website for more information on being involved as a volunteer as well as the link to the mandatory criminal background training, which is required yearly. https://albany.k12.or.us/about/volunteer 

In addition, the district shall promote nondiscrimination and an environment free of harassment based on an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status or age or because of...

Students are discouraged from bringing money or items of value to school. If it is necessary to do so, bring these items to the office for safekeeping during the school day.

In certain circumstances, representatives of law enforcement agencies or the Children’s Services Division may interview students on campus during school hours. These representatives must tell a school administrator which student they wish to interview.

Information will primarily be sent home via ParentSquare. We may also send home information via email or papers in a student’s backpack.

Reading performance, as early as the second grade, is a reliable predictor of future academic and/or career success. The staff at Meadow Ridge recognizes the important role parents/guardians play in developing your child into a life-long learner. Children learn to read by reading.

Homework is one of many educational approaches used to assist student learning. It encourages students to be self-disciplined, independent, and responsible learners. Homework also increases students’ academic achievement by reinforcing the concepts taught in the classroom.

Students will receive report cards following each semester break:  
February - Semester I Report Cards

June - Semester II Report Cards

Meadow Ridge PTC and the school sponsor several major fundraisers during the school year. These activities are valuable contributors to student activity accounts and are used to help fund classroom purchases, activity/reward days, and field trips.

Field trips are an extension of classroom learning and will be connected to learning goals in class. All school rules apply while participating on field trips. Students are to remain with their class at all times.

At Meadow Ridge, we love celebrating our students! However, after careful consideration and feedback from families, staff, and health professionals, we have established the following guidelines for birthdays and school celebrations.

Equal education opportunity and treatment shall be provided to all students enrolled in the district. Students shall not be subjected to unlawful discrimination or to insult, intimidation, or harassment on the basis of age, handicap, national origin, race/color, religion, sex, or marital status.

The district may use electronic devices in public areas of district property to ensure the welfare and safety of all staff, students, and visitors to district property, and to safeguard district facilities and equipment.

Meadow Ridge Class Size/Placement Committee:  
School Administrators:  Chris Sullivan- Principal

Specialists: 
Joelle Grossen - ELD
Alex Brooks - Special Education Teacher
Joe Lake - Speech and Language Pathologist
Kathryn Blakley - Speech and Language Pathologist
Brienz Zerby - Counselor

Regular attendance is extremely important to student success. Students who regularly attend school (absent for less than 10 days of school) are better able to keep up with their schoolwork, are more likely to acquire the skills and knowledge expected at their particular grade level, and develop...

Keeping your child safe to and from school is our priority. In the event we discover after school plans were not followed and a student is not where they are supposed to be we will...

To assist our staff in making sure your child gets to the appropriate place for dismissal we ask parents/guardians to fill out the “Go Home Plan” Google Survey we send out before school starts. You are asked to identify how they are expected to get home each day. 

All Wednesdays throughout the school year (except for the first and last Wednesdays of the year), students will go home one hour earlier (2:35 p.m.).

When dropping off your student, please park and walk your child over to the front entrance. Alternatively, you may use the drive through off Somerset. In this case, please pull all the way forward to allow cars behind you to pull in and get off the street as soon as possible.

Students may arrive beginning at 8:45 am. Students may go to the playground or the Commons (cafeteria) for breakfast at 8:45 am. Supervision begins at 8:45 AM and ends at 4:00 PM (unless your child is attending Boys and Girls Club).