Arrival and Dismissal

               In the pursuit of excellence…     

   Kettle Lake Elementary School

               Address: 8451 Garbow Dr., Alto, MI 49302

               Telephone (616) 868-6113 - Fax (616) 868-0021 - www.calschools.org

Arrival and Dismissal Procedures

Students are dropped off and picked up outside the school in designated areas.  We use a number system for parents to pick up in our parking lot by the main entrance.  Families are designated a number and will be provided with two sets of laminated numbers to display in their vehicles.  Contact our office if you need more than two.  For the safety of our students, please keep the line moving forward and stay in vehicles at all times.  The loading zone will take place once you approach the main entrance.

If you are a late drop off or early pick up, enter the main doors into the vestibule and push the button on the speaker to speak directly to the office staff.  You will sign-in or sign-out your child and the office staff will open doors for your child to enter or exit the building.  

Thank you in advance for your cooperation with our arrival and dismissal procedures!

Arrival: 8:45 AM Start Time - Students enter through designated entrances beginning at 8:35 AM.  Students eating breakfast may enter the main doors starting at 8:30 AM and go directly to the cafeteria.

  • Drop Off - Students begin entering the building at 8:35 AM if traveling by car, bike, or walking through their designated doors to their lockers and then entering classrooms.
  • Kindergarteners will stay lined up with their classes in the main hallways until classroom teachers walk them to their classrooms.  
  • Bus - Students stay seated on the bus until 8:40 AM  
  • Students eating breakfast may enter the main doors at 8:30 AM and go directly to the cafeteria.  
  • Bus drivers will let Kindergarteners off first to enter through the side doors at 8:40 AM.  Kindergarteners will stay lined up with their classes in the main hallways until classroom teachers walk them to their classrooms.  
  • All other students will enter through their designated doors going directly to their lockers and then entering their classrooms.
  • YMCA before care will go directly to the cafeteria. (more information will be provided by the YMCA)

Dismissal: 3:40 PM End Time - Students will be dismissed at 3:40 PM to the buses and those being picked up will be in the gym until their number is called to dismiss.  

  • Pick Up - All families will be assigned a number and display that number in their vehicles when picking students up through the pickup line in the front of the building. (laminated number signs will be available at Open House or be sent home on the first day of school)
  • Bus - Teachers walk students to the bus through designated exits.  
  • YMCA aftercare will go directly to the cafeteria. (more information will be provided by the YMCA)

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*Pick Up Numbers to be displayed in cars in the pick up line at dismissal

Principal: MEGAN BALLMER ~ Secretary: CRYSTAL BELLGRAPH ~ Secretary: HAILEY METZ