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School Hours, Arrival, and Dismissal

Daily Drop Off – Grades PK-4th will arrive between 7:45 and 8:10 am and will enter the building through either the Rotunda doors (PK-1st Grades) or the Ashley Priddy Commons doors (2nd-4th grades). Please review the carpool map for the entrances for both carpool lines. If you have multiple daughters in Lower School, you are welcome to drop off all Lower School daughters in either of the carpool lines, and we will ensure that your daughters enter through the appropriate entrance. Upon arrival and health check, girls will report to their homeroom classrooms. Each family will be asked to display their carpool signs during morning carpool to help us more easily identify your child as you wait in the carpool line.

Dismissal – Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, and Primer dismiss at 2:45 pm, and First Grade dismisses at 3:00 pm exiting from the Rotunda doors. Second Grade dismisses at 3:15 pm, and Third and Fourth Grades dismiss at 3:30 pm exiting from the Ashley Priddy doors. Afternoon carpool will utilize the same carpool lines as morning carpool. Each family will be asked to display their official carpool signs during afternoon carpool to help us more easily identify your child as you wait in the carpool line. Students will dismiss from their homeroom classrooms to the outside carpool stations when their name is announced in their classrooms. Members of our security staff will help direct you to specific Lower School grade-level lines and when you are picking up multiple children at different dismissal times. Each grade-level carpool period lasts 15 minutes. All students are expected to leave campus at dismissal time, as we are only able to offer after-school care at this time for children of faculty and staff.

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Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.

The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.