1. Lunches: Lunch Tickets can be purchased each Monday for $10 per week. Students may also purchase single meals for $2.00. Breakfast can be purchased for $1.00 and milk (1/2 pint) will cost $.35.
2. Bookstore: Classroom supplies may be purchased in the school bookstore before 9:00 a.m.
3. Newsletter: "The Eagle Speaks" issued every nine weeks on the day report cards are issued.
4. Books: A textbook receipt listing the books, identification numbers, and conditions will be sent to you on your child's first day of school. Please sign this form, and return it the next day. Be certain to list any damaged conditions on this form. Parents are held financially accountable for damage to textbooks assigned to their children.
5. Absentee Homework: Homework assignments can be obtained by calling the lesson line. This is a home-to-classroom communications system that enables parents to communicate personally with their child's teachers. By dialing the lesson line number 432-1264 and then the Elmore Park School number 373-2642, parents can hear the individual teachers message from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. weekdays and anytime on weekends. This will make parent-teacher communication easier. The office will keep parents informed of general school announcements through this system as well. We hope that you will call the Lesson Line often!
6. Medicine: Medicine should be administered at home whenever possible. When absolutely necessary the parent may bring medicine to school. A form must be on file in the school office, and the student must take the medicine directly to the office when arriving at school. Medicine will be maintained in a locked cabinet or the refrigerator. The child must be responsible to come to the office when he/she needs to take the medication.
7. Sign Out: A parent or guardian must sign the student out in the main office in order for the student to leave early.
8. Visitors: ALL visitors MUST report directly to the main office upon arrival!
9. Conferences: We are happy to have parent conferences; however, these must be prearranged. Please call the school office to schedule a conference with your child's teacher.
10. Dress Code: All students are expected to dress in a manner that meets reasonable standards of health, cleanliness, modesty, and safety. The length of shorts and skirts worn to school may be no more than four (4) inches above the knee with no holes or frayed ends. Pants must be worn above the hips at all times. Students not complying with the dress code will be assigned in-school suspension (ISS) for that day. Please refer to other appropriate sections of the Shelby County handbook for additional information.
11. Student Backpack Procedure: In order to provide for the safe transportation and comfort of all students, we ask that the size of backpacks be limited to one which can be easily handled by the student. Backpacks that are too large and heavy for the students to pick up and/or hold in their laps during their ride will not be allowed. These items interfere with assigned seating, movement inside the bus, and pose a safety risk. In case of am emergency, passengers must be able to evacuate through the rear exit.

It's the law: If you have drugs in your possession or you physically assault any school employee, you will be arrested and suspended for 180 days. If you miss 10 consecutive unexcused days, or 15 total unexcused day per semester, or if you don't pass at least three (3) subjects each semester, you will lose your driver's license.

Warning: Electronic screening for weapons - All students on Shelby County School campuses are subject to unannounced electronic screening for weapons.

1. Buses (Regular and Special Education): The front drive is reserved for buses. We transport our students by means of 15 buses and 6 special education buses. Therefore, no allowances are made for car riders to be picked up in this area. No buses leave before 4:00 p.m.
   
2. Car Riders: Car riders should be dropped off and picked up on the East side of the building via the East drive. Parents should enter the drive, circle and pick up students at the door.  Please do not drop students off in the street. This creates a traffic problem and a safety concern.
3. Walkers: Walkers are classified as those students who walk to and from school or whose parents drop them off or pick them up at the church parking lot, teacher's parking lot, behind the school, or any location other than the East drive. These students are generally dismissed with the second row of buses and should follow the directions of either the crossing guard or supervising teachers.
   
4. Bike Riders: Bike riders should follow safety directions given by the crossing guard and park and secure their bikes on the bike rack located in the parking area behind the cafetorium.
5. Visitors/Volunteers: Please do not park in front of the building before 9:30 A.M. and after 3:00 P.M. Buses will be present during this time frame and other moving vehicles are prohibited.

1. Students will report directly to homeroom upon arrival at school. (Exceptions are bookstore, office business, or breakfast. Students should attend to these needs before going to homeroom). Once in homeroom, students may not leave until they are dismissed to first period.
2. Hall Passes are required whenever a student is in the halls for any reason during scheduled class time.
3. Students may not leave school until normal dismissal time unless checked out by a parent or guardian using standard check-out procedures in the office. No student may be released to anyone other than a parent or legal designee.
4. Every person at EPMS is expected to be respectful of others at all times.
5. Students will be orderly, courteous, attentive, on-task, and prepared to participate productively and appropriately at all times.
6. Candy and 12 oz. can drinks are permitted during lunch time only. Gum, glass bottles, and drinks larger than 12 oz. are strictly prohibited in school and on the bus.
7. Students will be respectful of school property and the property of others at all times.
8. Gambling, in any form, is strictly prohibited at school and on buses.
9. Tobacco, tobacco products, lighters, and matches are strictly prohibited at school and on the bus.
10. Students may not have radios, tape players/recorders, CD players, cassette tapes, CD's, video games, beepers, or cellular phones at school or on the bus.
11. Students may not bring materials to school which are not directly related to the instructional program or necessary for the student's participation in the instructional program.
12. Students are not allowed to sell any item(s) to another student while on school property or on the bus.
13. Parent conferences must be scheduled in advance with teachers and/or administrators. Parents must report to the office for administrative authorization before going to any classroom.
14. The school's dress code is the same as Shelby County Board Policy 6205 with the additional restrictions against the wearing of shorts which are shorter than arms length (fingertips extended) or more than four inches above the knee. Additionally, the wearing of hats and/or sunglasses inside the school building is prohibited

1. Students will enter the cafeteria and move through the serving line in a quiet and orderly way.
2. All food purchases should be made upon entering the cafeteria. Once seated, students will have to get permission from cafeteria monitors to get up again. No student will be allowed to get up more than once after being seated.
3. Volume of cafeteria conversation should be kept at moderate levels.
4. Students are expected to use good manners and be respectful while in the cafeteria.
5. Students are expected to leave tables, seats, and floors neat and clean when leaving the cafeteria.
6. Students will not be allowed to eat or drink once they have been dismissed from their table.
7. All trash should be disposed of when students have been dismissed from their tables.
8. While waiting for their teacher, students will conduct themselves in a quiet and orderly manner.
9. All students will sit in assigned seats until cafeteria behavior demonstrates readiness for further privileges.
10. Violations of cafeteria rules will result in one or more of the following consequences:

• warning
• conduct check (home room teacher)
• lunch detention
• after-school detention
• disciplinary referral top