LaBrae Local School District

For children residing in the LaBrae School District who will be 5 years old (Kindergarten) by August 1, 2025, you will need to call 330-898-3041 after August 11, 2025 when the Bascom secretary returns to schedule an appointment to register.

You will need to have the following information:

• Child’s Birth Certificate, Social Security Card and Immunization Record.
• Valid driver’s license or state ID for parent/guardian registering the child.
• Custody papers (if applicable) with court date and time stamp and signed by Judge. Must submit the complete document.
• Two (2) valid proofs of residency one (1) MUST be a utility bill. All proof of residency documents must have the parent/guardian’s name, address, and be currently dated.

Valid proof of residency are as follows: Monthly Mortgage Statement, Lease/Rental Agreement (whole document, all pages, must include signature of both parties), Purchase/Construction Contract, Current Pay Stub, Proof of Car Insurance, Government Assistance Program Paperwork, Official Voter Registration Card from Board of Elections, and/or Monthly Bank Statement. Nothing handwritten will be accepted (example: receipts, notes, etc.) Post Office Boxes are also not acceptable. We do not accept driver’s license, tax forms, or junk mail for proof of residency.

In an effort to improve safety and limit the number of building entry points during the morning M.S./H.S. drop off, LaBrae asks our families to review the following drop-off/pick-up instructions. Students are not permitted to enter the M.S./H.S. at the doors located on the west side of the Complex.  The three points of entry for all students are the main high school entrance, the middle school entrance adjacent to the bus loading zone, and the main Event Entrance. When dropping off your middle school or high school student(s), we are requiring that parents use the driving lane directly along the M.S./H.S. entrance, if you enter the school campus from N. Leavitt, or the drop-off location in front of the Board of Education Office, if you are entering the school campus from Eagle Creek Dr.  Also, all student drivers must use the M.S. entrance or the Event Entrance.

The drop off zones will be marked with cones, and we encourage multiple vehicles drop off students at one time in the designated zones.  This should help expedite the drop off process and move the traffic through more efficiently.  Additionally, students are not to be dropped off in the main drive of the Complex or in the visitor/staff parking lot in front of the high school.  Doing so creates an unsafe environment where students then have to cross traffic in the main drive and/or the visitor parking lot in front of the Complex.

In order to prevent students from crossing through traffic, we ask that parents do not park along the main drive for student pick up.  Parents picking up their M.S./H.S. child are to use the driving lane adjacent to the school, or the parking lot in front of the Board of Education Office, which is directly behind the bus loading zone. Vehicles are prohibited from being in the bus loading zone during student drop-off/pick-up times.

It is important to eliminate, as practical as possible, any practices where students have to cross traffic as they enter or exit the building. Therefore, we kindly request that our parents join us in helping to make the morning/afternoon traffic environment at LaBrae a safe place for students.  Your cooperation in this matter is greatly appreciated!

Please refer to the map below for the designated areas referred to above.

The Free/Reduced Meal Application for the 23-24 school year is now available and can be completed online at payschoolscentral.com. If you do not have a PaySchools account, information for creating one can be found under the Quick Links tab in Cafeteria Accounts/Fee Payments. If you submitted an application for your child in the 2022-2023 SY that status will be carried over for the first 30 days of school. To determine if your child is eligible for free/reduced meals a completed application must be received by October 11, 2023. If you do not submit a new application that is approved by the school or you have not been notified that your child is eligible for free/reduced meals, your child will be charged the full price for meals. If you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact Cafeteria Supervisor, Sally Deehr at sally [dot] deehrlabrae [dot] school.

Parents,

In preparation for the upcoming school year the clinic needs a few things in order to help keep students safe at school.

• Please review/complete FinalForms for each of your students prior to the first day of school
• Provide current action plans for students with asthma, seizures, or anaphylaxis as well as needed rescue medications. These need to be in the clinic before school starts. If your student carries their inhaler etc on them during the school day we still need the action plan on file in the clinic.
• If your child has a food allergy make the cafeteria aware. If substitutions are required a doctor’s order is needed if not already on file.  Contact sally [dot] deehrlabrae [dot] school for cafeteria issues.
• Medications that are required to be given daily in school require a written doctor’s order. An adult must bring the medication to school.  Do not send medications to school with students.
• Generic action plans and medication orders are available at the Nurse’s Notes & Forms page.
• Finally, students in grade 7 need to show proof of a Tdap & meningitis shot, Students in grade 12 must show proof of a meningitis booster shot or, if they were over 16 when the first shot was given, the date of the first meningitis shot. Any K student who was not up to date at the time of registration must provide a current shot record.  All students newly enrolled in the district, regardless of grade level, need an up to date shot record on file also.  Immunization records are due by September 30.

Elizabeth Sutliff MSN, APRN, FNP-C
School Nurse
liz [dot] sutlifflabrae [dot] school

Yard signs for display honoring LaBrae seniors are now available for sale at the Board of Education Office between the hours of 8:00 to 3:00.  Signs are $10.  These are a perfect way to publicly acknowledge your graduating senior.  Also, if your child is a senior next year, buying your sign now allows you to display it during the coming school year.  {Signs are paid for by the LaBrae Levy Committee; Karen Ancell, Treasurer}

Students now have access to electronic books and audiobooks from NEOMIN and the Warren-Trumbull Public Library through SORA.  No library card is required.  Students simply use their LaBrae Google log-in and go to Gmail.  Locate the SORA app in the Google “Waffle” at the top right and then check out e-books from the “NEOMIN NE Ohio Management Information Network” library—or add the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library by selecting the menu (3 horizontal lines) in the upper right corner of the screen and adding that library.  Electronic materials may now be checked out.  Happy reading!!!

This year LaBrae is foregoing the printing and mailing of our community newsletter in an effort to reduce expenses.  Please access the newsletter as a PDF below.  Should you have any questions, you are encouraged to contact the Superintendent's Office.

As we prepare for the coming school year, parents need to keep the following information in mind regarding immunization requirements for school attendance.

• Students entering grades K, 7, & 12, as well as students in any other grade who are newly enrolled at LaBrae, have immunization requirements.
• We do not know yet what school will look like in the fall but we must continue to prepare.
• Students entering 7^th grade must show proof of a Tdap & Meningitis vaccination.
• Students entering 12^th grade must show proof of a second Meningitis vaccine. * If the student is older than 16 & has not had the first Menigitis vaccine they will only need one. Please discuss your child’s vaccination status with his/her healthcare provider.
• Shot records are due in the clinic by September 30, 2024.
• Shot records may be mailed to school, faxed to 330-898-7808 ( grades 3-12), or 330- 898-1448 (grades K-2), or emailed to Mrs. Sutliff, the school nurse, at liz [dot] sutlifflabrae [dot] school