Tryouts begin for boys and girls soccer begin Monday, Aug. 14th at 4:00. All students must have a completed physical packet in order to participate.

Parents - If you have not registered for Skyward, please visit:

https://horizonwestms.ocps.net/parents/skyward_and_canvas_family_access for directions.

On Thursday, students will report to their first period teacher that is indicated on their schedule. A finalized schedule will be provided on the first day in their first period class.

Students will not be allowed to enter the campus until 9:00am, unless they are registered in the Boys & Girls Club. Students will enter through the cafeteria area or bus loop. For car riders, please follow the traffic patterns and drop off in the designated area located right outside the cafeteria. There will be several staff members and a resource officer there to assist. To ensure the traffic runs as smoothly as possible, only parents who need to register their child will be allowed to park outside of the front office and enter the campus.

Take a few moments and discuss school behavior with your student. You can review some policies and procedures in our OCPS Student Code of Conduct that can be found at ocps.net.

At the start and end of each period, students will hear a bell to transition to class. Each student has 4 minutes passing time to get from class to class before being marked tardy. We will not start the tardy policy until the second week of school so students have an opportunity to learn their schedule. Excessive tardies can result in administrative detentions, Saturday school and other disciplinary consequences. We need our students in class on time to receive their instruction.

Students will move in the hallways all following the same direction. This helps with flow of traffic and efficiency getting from class to class. Everyone goes in on the right side of the hallway and exits on the left side. Right stairwells are for going up, the left is for going down.

If you need any help during the day, please just ask an adult. We are all here to help you and get you where you are supposed to be. See Bell Schedule below:

All students will have a scheduled lunch (A, B, or C).  Lunch is approximately 25 minutes long. Students may sit where they would like.

We believe every student deserves access to healthy and nutritious meals regardless of socioeconomic status. Therefore, it has been decided that for the upcoming 2023-24 school year ALL existing OCPS schools will be implementing the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), allowing ALL students to receive ALL school meals at NO CHARGE.

To ensure your student is getting a nutritious meal, students can choose three to five components. If three to five components are not selected, then items will be charged at the A la Carte price. The five food group components are: Proteins, grains, Vegetables, Fruits, and Milk.

For breakfast, students may select a minimum of three out of four offered food items, where one of those items must be a 1/2 cup fruit of vegetable.

For lunch, students may select a minimum of three out of five total food group components and one of those components must be a 1/2 cup fruit or vegetable.

Each day at 4:04PM the school day is over, 2:54PM on Wednesdays. Students will be dismissed and are expected to leave campus immediately, unless they are participating in an extracurricular event or school sport. Students should not be wandering the campus or waiting for friends.

All Car Riders will be dropped off/picked up in the designated car loop located by the cafeteria. Car riders will not be able to be dropped off/picked up in front of the Administrative Building and car riders will not have access to the front administrative parking until after 9:30PM, unless you have a scheduled appointment. Car Riders will be given car tags to assist with an efficient dismissal. For parents of car riders, we ask that you please follow the traffic patterns and remain in your car until you pull up to the curb for your child to get in. We ask that all car rider parents pull up as far as you can so that we can load as many students into cars at one time. We want to be respectful of our community neighbors and follow all arrival and dismissal patterns. Please also be very cautious and aware of the busy crosswalk at the entrance of the school-car loop. We have several students that utilize this daily and we want to ensure they are safe at all times.

Families of walkers and bike riders: Please remind your student to be cognizant of the busy crosswalks at the entrance of the school and by the bike rack in the front of the school. Students should walk their bicycles/scooters across the cross walk rather than riding them.

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Remember Hornets, if you should ever see or hear something suspicious or unusual this year, please say something to any teacher, coach, or administrator right away. Thank you.

The list shared by St. Johns County Sheriff's Office includes social media apps, dating apps, and even games with chat functions. View the short news video (posted by First Coast News, Jacksonville, FL)

Superintendent Dr. Maria Vazquez is pictured above on the set with Nancy Alvarez, WESH news anchor. Please click here for the latest back-to-school information from our superintendent of schools. (Dr. Vazquez is beginning her second year as superintendent and typically puts out a short "Monday's with Maria" each Monday morning on YouTube with topics which will be of interest to our Horizon West community.)

In this one-on-one conversation with Nancy Alvarez (click here), Superintendent Vazquez talks about the recent OCPS reorganization that eliminated geographic learning communities and how the move will help provide better support to schools.