Rocky Point School District General Information

Acceptable Use Policy	Code of Conduct	Health Info	School Report Card
Attendance Policy	School Based Planning and Shared Decision Making	HS Rules/Regulations	Star Tax Relief Program
Breakfast/Lunch Program	Financial Statements	Megan's Law	Working Papers
ChildFind	FOIL	Registration	Taxpayer ID Code
District-Wide Safety Plan

District MISSION STATEMENT & DISTRICT GOALS

The mission of the Rocky Point Union Free School district is to develop each child's full potential in a nurturing and supportive student-centered environment that will promote a foundation for lifelong learning.

The Rocky Point Union Free School District goals are:

♦ Academic Excellence
♦ Organizational Development
♦ Fiscal Sustainability

School Registration

New Registrants grades K - 12 please call the
registration office at 849-7244 for information.

Kindergarten Registration 2011-2012

In order to register for Kindergarten in the 2012-2013 school year, children must be five years of age on or before December 1, 2012. Registration is ongoing from January to May, by appointment only. An online pre-registration form will be available on the District website after January 1, 2012.

ROCKY POINT UFSD REGISTRATION INFO

If you have any questions and/or you would like to make an appointment, please call our Central Registration Office at 849-7244.

TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION CODE 540 (for your New York State Income Tax Return)

The NYS Resident Income Tax Return requires you to enter the name and code number of the public school district where you were a resident on December 31st of the prior year. You must enter this information even if you had no children attending school. Adjusted gross income is assigned to school districts and is used as a wealth measure in various formulas for the apportionment of State Aid based on tax codes entered on tax returns. In other words, when the school district tax code is entered incorrectly or not at all, the Rocky Point School District receives less State Aid than it is entitled to receive.

Attendance Regulations

As of September 2003, there is a new comprehensive attendance policy in effect. Please click here to view the entire policy online. The policy can also be downloaded in Adobe PDF format.

The State Education Department requires the teacher to keep an accurate record of every student's attendance at school. Such records must show the true cause of absence. For this reason, all students are required on their return to school to bring written excuses from parents or guardians in every case of absence or tardiness.

The following excuses are legal:

Sickness of child
Sickness of the family
Remedial health treatment
Impassable roads
Religious observance
Required court appearance
Approved cooperative work programs
Approved college visits
Military obligations

All other absences must be classified as:

Unlawful detention--this occurs when the student is absent from school with parental knowledge and consent, stated or implied, for other than legal reason.
Truancy--this occurs when a student is absent from school without parental knowledge and no legal excuse for the absence applies.

Regular attendance and punctuality are vital to the educational well-being of each child. Parents are urged to insure that each child attends regularly and arrives at school on time.

You are also asked to inform the school if a child is to be absent or late. Parents of elementary and secondary students should call the district main number (744-1600) and follow the instructions for individual schools. In all instances due to absences or tardiness, a note must be forwarded immediately to the homeroom teacher stating the reason when the child returns to school.

Do not send your child to school so early that he or she will arrive before the scheduled opening time. We request that students remain at home rather than play on an unsupervised playground.

Breakfast/Lunch Program

All district schools have student cafeterias. Breakfast and hot lunch are provided for all students at nominal cost. Milk and other beverages are available for students who bring lunches prepared at home. A registered dietitian and trained staff are responsible for the planning and preparation of the district's breakfast/lunch program.

Cost of Regular School Lunch

Frank J. Carasiti School	$2.10
Joseph A. Edgar School	$2.10
Rocky Point Middle School	$2.35
Rocky Point High School	$2.35
Milk (All Schools)	$ .40
Note: The above is subject to change. Please check your child's monthly menu for current prices.

Health Programs

The School Health Program provides services and health education to our children, staff, home, and community with emphasis on prevention. Good health contributes to learning ability; therefore, we are mainly concerned with helping children attain the best possible physical and mental condition.

Our programs include NYS mandated yearly vision, hearing, and scoliosis exams. You are responsible for medical care of a problem reported by the school physician and should return all forms as soon as they have been completed by your physician. Injuries and infections that occur at home must be treated at home or by a physician.

Communicable health problems (such as head lice, pinworms, scabies, “pink eye,” and strep infections) along with any immunizations, tests, injuries or unusual illnesses, must be reported to the Health Office, enabling us to better protect your child’s health.

Medications must be brought to the Health Office and dispensed there, enabling us to better protect your child’s health. All medication must be properly labeled and accompanied by a signed note.

Immunizations

Under NYS Public Health Law, all children must be properly immunized prior to their entry into school. Minimum immunizations include 3 doses of DPT, 3 doses of polio, 3 doses of hepatitis B, 2 doses of measles, and one dose of mumps and rubella vaccine. The immunizations required by the State include: poliomyelitis, mumps, measles, diphtheria, rubella, varicella, Haemophilus influenza type b and hepatitis B .

All children enrolled in 6th grade after January 2005 must be immunized with 1 dose of varicella and DTaP booster.

All children enrolled in 7th grade on or after September 1, 2000, must be immunized against hepatitis B infection. The hepatitis B vaccine is available in a 2- or 3-dose regimen for adolescents. Immunizations may be waived in cases of medical contraindication with proper physician documentation.

MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

NYS Public Health Law requires a physician’s order for the nurse to dispense over-the-counter or prescription medications to a student. The following guidelines must be adhered to:

A written request from the prescribing physician.
A written request from the parents or guardian.
Medication must be brought to the health office by the parent or designated adult. Children are prohibited from transporting medication on the bus.
The medication must be in the prescription bottle/vial clearly indicating the child’s name, frequency, dosage and duration of the treatment.
Medication that is ordered once, twice, or three times daily can be managed at home.
Parents/guardians should report any changes in the course of treatment, as well as any change in your child’s health to the health office.

Child Find

Child Find is a continuous process of public awareness activities, screening and evaluation designed to locate, identify, and refer as early as possible all young children with disabilities and their families who are in need of Early Intervention Program (Part C) or Preschool Special Education (Part B/619) services of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

This site offers information and resources related to the earliest possible identification of young children and their families who may benefit from early intervention or education services.

Child Find is a component of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that requires states to identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities, aged birth to 21, who are in need of early intervention or special education services. This Child Find web site is mainly focused on Part C of the IDEA, the Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities. However, much of the information and many of the links listed on the Child Find web site can be useful in conducting child find for all young children, not just child find for infants and toddlers.

Parents for Megan’s Law--Sex Offender Email Alert Program (Nassau and Suffolk Only)

Parents For Megan's Law (PFML) will actively notify you by email each time we are notified by either the Suffolk or Nassau County Police Departments (New York) of a moderate or high risk sex offender. You must download a form by visiting: www.parentsformeganslaw.com and mail it to:

Parents for Megan's Law
P.O. Box 145
Stony Brook, New York 11790
OR
call their help line at 631-689-2672 to
have a form mailed or faxed to you.

Working Papers

Students that have reached the age of 14 are eligible to get working papers. To obtain working papers you must first... Get information and an application form from your high school guidance office:

GUIDANCE COUNSELORS
Call 744-1604
between 7:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Monday - Friday

If a student plans to work, he or she must observe the following regulations:

If he/she is 12 or 13:
He/she may deliver newspapers. A newspaper permit is required. When school is in session, he/she may work a maximum of 5 hrs/day . He/she may work between the hours of 5 AM and
7 PM (or 30 minutes prior to sunset, whichever is later.)

If he/she is 14 or 15:
He/she must get working papers. When attendance at school is not required, he/she may work in stores, offices, and other places, except in a factory workroom. He/she may do delivery or clerical work in an enclosed office of a factory and in dry cleaning stores, shoe repair shops, and similar service stores. He/she may work between 7 AM/7 PM Day after Labor Day to June 20 and between 7 AM/7 PM June 21 to Labor Day. When school is in session he/she may work a maximum of 18 hrs/wk as follows: Monday to Friday 3 hrs/day; Saturday, Sunday, Holidays 8 hrs/day. When school is not in session, he/she may work 6 days a week, up to 8 hours in any one day and up to 40 hours in any one week. (School is not in session if the school is closed for the entire week.)

If he/she is 16 or 17:
He/she must get working papers. He/she may work in a factory. When school is in session he/she may work a maximum 28 hrs/wk as follows: Monday - Thursday 4 hrs/day; Friday , Saturday , Sunday , holidays 8 hrs/day . He/she may not work between 10 PM and 6 AM. He/she must obtain written permission from a parent or guardian and from your school, in order to work between 10 PM and midnight on a day before a school day; and from a parent or a guardian only to work between 10 PM and midnight on a day before a non-school day. Students enrolled in an approved Cooperative Education Program may work up to 6 hours on a day preceding a school day when school is in session as long as the hours are in conjunction with the program. During vacations (school must be closed for the entire week), he/she may work six days, 48 hrs/wk, 8 hrs/day between the hours of 6 AM to midnight.

Steps in Obtaining Working Papers:

A secondary student may obtain an application from the middle school or high school guidance office.
A parent must sign the application.
A physical examination is required. This examination must have taken place within one year of application for working papers.
The student must sign the Student Non factory Employment Certificate in front of issuing clerk.

Visit http://www.labor.state.ny.us/ for additional information