Good evening Green Devil Families,

This is St. Pete HS Principal, Darlene Lebo calling to welcome all of our parents, students and families to the 2024-2025 school year.

Here is your August 12^th weekly update for school events and information:

*Reminder that the first day of school is tomorrow, Monday,  August 12^th.  School hours for this year are 7:25AM to 1:55PM.

*Parents, our student drop off is located on Devil’s Drive, the road that runs through the middle of our campus and is accessible off of 5^th Avenue N (just past the teacher’s parking lot).  NO students should be dropped off in the front of the school, on 25^th Street or in our teacher’s parking lot.  Please note that Devil’s Drive will open each morning at 6:30AM for morning drop off and again at 1:30PM for afternoon pickup.

*Parents, please note that the State of Florida has new laws in place that now affect all school campuses in the state.  This law requires many of our external gates and doors to always remain locked.  Additionally, many of our interior building doors that lead to the main courtyard will now be required to be locked and/or manned.  We ask that you please have this conversation with your students and  encourage them to work hard to get to class on time so that they will not have issues getting into buildings.  Additionally, I would like to stress the importance of making sure your child is attending school EACH and EVERY day and that they arrive to campus on time.  Our front doors will now need to remain locked and everyone will need to be buzzed in.  When students are late this is quite an inconvenience for our front office staff.

*NO students should be dropped off on campus prior to 6:30AM and all students who are not involved in supervised after school activities MUST be picked up no later than 2:30PM.  This is especially important this school year as the state of Florida has new laws that took effect July 1^st requiring additional security measures be followed on all campuses statewide. 

*Please note that our district has a new CELL phone policy that will be strictly enforced.  Please make sure that your student is aware of this policy so as to avoid any consequences.  Students are ONLY allowed to have their phones out before/after school, during class transitions and lunch.  They are NOT permitt4ed to have phones out during class time.  Furthermore, students are NOT permitted to have earbuds/headphones in at all during the school day.  Students will be hearing more about this policy and the consequences for violating it this coming week.  We ask that parents work with us to support this new policy as cell phones are a major distraction during instructional time.

Additional notes for this week:

*Students, as you arrive on campus on Monday, you should report to your assigned homeroom. The homeroom list is attached to this email.  Otherwise, you can either check it out on our SPHS website or on any of the many posters that will be

*Please note that students are expected to be in compliance with the school’s dress code policy beginning day one.  Parents we ask that you please make sure your student is properly dressed when they arrive on campus.

*All students are eligible for FREE breakfast and FREE lunch each and every day.  We do still encourage all families to fill out the free/reduced lunch application if you think you are eligible as this will qualify you for free testing waivers and additional scholarship opportunities.  Please fill out the free and reduced lunch form at:  www.myschoolapps.com

*Parents please be sure to keep your contact information updated in Focus so that you will receive all school communications.  Please take note that many of the back-to-school paperwork is online this school year.  Students will still be receiving a first day packet with all of the forms on paper this year and please note that even if you fill out forms online, there are still some forms that must be physically filled out and returned.  Students should turn these in to their 1^st period teacher.  Online forms can be found at www.pcsb.org/backtoschoolforms

That is all for this week’s update.  We look forward to seeing everyone ON TIME tomorrow morning!

Have a great Green Devil night!

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