As the 2014-2015 school year approaches, the New Albany School District (NASD) Department of Transportation would like to make parents and the community aware of changes in afternoon bus transportation procedures. Lecia Stubblefield, Transportation Director, emphasizes, “Safety is always our first priority in any decision we make.”
For the past several years, elementary students have been transported home on buses separate from middle and high school students. This caused elementary students to ride a different bus from their older siblings. In some instances, students did not have the same bus number and driver assignment for the afternoon as they did the morning.
This school year, NASD will be returning to a single fleet system of transportation. The greatest benefit of this system will be that students will ride the bus with their siblings and will ride the same bus at all times. There will be three bus dismissals at each school in the afternoon. Stubblefield stated, “Home arrival times may vary the first couple of weeks until we get all routes finalized and in a routine. Do not hesitate to call the schools or the central office with any questions you may have.”
Please note how this change in bus procedures will affect each school as it pertains to traffic on campus:
New Albany Elementary School:
- Car rider dismissal will be at 3:00 p.m. Car traffic will be routed the same way as last year for student pick-up.
New Albany Middle School:
- Car riders and walkers will be dismissed at 3:00 p.m.
- Car riders should be picked up on Apple Street. Traffic should enter Apple Street from South Central Avenue.
- Walkers to the Boys & Girls Club will exit the east end of building near the old tennis courts. Walkers to downtown area will exit out the end of the long hallway with car riders.
- Glade Avenue will be closed from corner of Oak/Glade to through traffic from 2:30-3:30 (or until last bus departs school) each day.
New Albany High School:
- Car riders, student drivers, and walkers will be dismissed at 3:00 p.m.
- All traffic should enter on Wheeler Street located at the north end of the campus near the Central Office building each day (morning and afternoon traffic). Buses, Faculty and Senior Parking ONLY will be allowed to turn in front of the Career and Techinical Building in the mornings. All others should drive behind the school and park in the South Student Parking Lot or parents may drop car riders off at English Wing.
- All traffic should exit the south end of the campus across from Chevron each day (morning and afternoon traffic).
- During afternoon, all automobiles must use street between high school building and football stadium.
- Each afternoon, car riders should be picked up at the south end of the campus.
- The drive between high school building and football stadium is a one way drive each day between hours of 7:00-8:00 a.m. and 2:45-3:30 p.m.
Transportation diagrams for car rider pick up and campus traffic are available at each school office for pick-up.
