If an emergency requires our schools to close early, this announcement will be communicated to parents through ParentSquare, the district’s electronic voice messaging system. In addition, the information will be provided to the local media and posted on the district website.

In order to keep students safe, district schools will not release students from school during a tornado warning or if the school is in lockdown. Buses will not run until the warning or lockdown is lifted. 

In case of a tornado warning, parents may take their children home before normal dismissal time but are required to come into the office and sign their children out of school. (A tornado watch indicates that conditions are likely to produce a tornado. A tornado warning means there is immediate danger for the warned area, and everyone in the path of the storm is advised to take cover immediately.) In the case of a lockdown, no one (other than emergency response team members) will be allowed to exit or enter the building.