Frequently Asked Questions

We are always happy to welcome new families to our learning community. Please visit our district Registration page for the information about enrolling your child at our school.

Classes start promptly at 9:10 a.m. each school day. Regular dismissal is at 4:00 p.m. except on early release days, when we we dismiss at 12:15 p.m. 

Please remember that parents may drop off their child no earlier than 8:50 a.m., as there is no adult supervision available before that time.

If your child must miss school, please call the school office on the day of his/her absence. For information about attendance requirements and what qualifies as an excused absence, please refer to our Attendance and Truancy page or refer to our student handbook.

A parent or guardian must sign out and pick up students at the front office if they need to leave before our regular dismissal time.

Ridgefield Public Schools is pleased to provide students at each of our schools  with safe, reliable transportation to and from school each day. We expect all students to adhere to the rules for their own safety as well as the safety of others. For information on bus policies, schedules, and routes, please visit our district Transportation page.

We welcome parents and community members to be a part of our school community in many capacities. For security reasons, we require all parents or other visitors to first sign in at the security desk and wear a visitor’s badge while in the school or on school grounds (i.e. the playground).

Visitors do affect the classroom environment, so we only allow authorized persons to come into our classrooms. We authorize parents to be in classrooms when teachers invite them to visit or volunteer. Parents may not go to classrooms, therapy rooms, the health room, the cafeteria, or to our playground without prior authorization from the principal and without a reason to do so that is acceptable to the teacher or principal.

PowerSchool is one of the ways we keep communication between home and school strong. It provides you with almost real-time access to your child’s grades, attendance history, and other important information. To receive your log-in information, please contact our front office.

Your child’s safety is extremely important to us. To help keep everybody safe, we ask that all visitors to our campus follow our security procedures. Visitors must enter the school grounds via the main entrance and show a photo ID. We will provide a temporary photo ID to wear while on our campus, which will expire at the end of the school day. We ask that visitors check out when leaving the school. Thank you for your support of this important security procedure.

We ask that all visitors to our school enter only through the main entrance. Only staff members may use their ID badges to enter through other entrances.

Students can access the Internet for homework and school-related research from our computer lab, library, and some classrooms under the supervision of qualified school personnel. We require all students to abide by our Acceptable Use Policy (which can be found in our student handbook). We expect our students to behave responsibly on school computer networks.

It is important to us to keep you informed about the guidelines related to COVID-19. To accomplish this, please review RPS' COVID-19 practices. This document will supply you with RPS' protocols and policy as well as advice for parents related to COVID-19.

Thank you for your close attention to the following reminders to keep RPS safe.