Arrival/Dismissal Procedures

Student Safety and Checkout Practices for BNHS

Student safety is our primary concern for Bobcat Nation, including accountability for students during the school day.

Click the box below to Request Early Release For Your Student 

Email Byron Nelson HS here 

Early release requests may only be submitted within 24 hours of requested release time-no earlier.

Early Release Requests in Advance:

• Early release requests should be sent at least one hour before the time of the dismissal request. This email must include the student's full legal name, and the exact date and time of the requested check-out. 
• All parent/guardian emails must be received from an address that is on file. Written authorization from a parent/guardian is required each time someone other than a parent/guardian is picking up. A valid photo ID must be presented at checkout.
• A pass will be prepared and available in the Attendance Office for your student to pickup before school, during passing periods or during their assigned lunch period. It is the student's responsibility to stop by the attndance office to pick upi their pass.
• At the appropriate release time, the student will show the pass to the teacher and go to the Front Office to check out.
• Student are required to sign out in the Front Office before leaving campus. Failure to check out with the Front Office will result in disciplinary action.
• We cannot accept phone calls requesting early release.

• Walk-in requests for check-out will not be taken after 3:30pm.
• Bring your driver's license with you for student checkout and your student will be called down at that time.
• Extra time is required if a pass must be delivered to the classroom. To preserve classroom learning, we cannot call into classrooms requesting a student be released. Please plan accordingly.
• If you are picking up your student during their lunch, athletics or PE period, be aware that you may have to wait until their next class period for their release.
• Written authorization from a parent/guardian is required each time someone other than a parent/guardian is picking up your student. A valid photo ID must be presented at checkout.

• If your student is feeling sick, please have them go to the Nurse's Office.
• The nurse will call if your students needs to be picked-up from school.
• A visit to the Nurse's Office does not automatically excuse a student's absence.

• The campus prohibits delivery or drop-offs of meals or any non-essential items. This includes, but is not limited to: Door Dash, Uber Eats, Tiff’s Treats, floral arrangements, balloons, etc. (this also applies to lunches that students have forgotten at home).
• All items are subject to be searched.

• If you choose to drop off an education-related item, please label the item, and notify your student the item is on the cart, just inside the main entrance. You will need to communicate via email with your student that the item is on the cart. The front office will NOT notify the student. It is your student’s responsibility to pick up their item during passing period or their assigned lunch period only. Any items that have not been picked up at the end of week, will be donated.

• Money will never be an acceptable drop-off item.

• Students will not go hungry. Students can “charge” a lunch on their Aramark account. Parent/Guardian may also add funds to the student lunch account. Click here to access Online Payment instructions.

• Forgotten homework/project: Parent/Guardian may take a photo of the item(s), email to the student to show to teacher as proof of completed work. It will be the teacher’s discretion to accept this method.

• Please be aware if a student is checked out of school to get the item(s), then checks back in, they may be subject to disciplinary action.

Thank you for helping us prioritize student safety and protect instructional time. your cooperation and planning make a big difference.