Dear Explorer Families,

As we prepare for the upcoming school year, the excitement is growing among our students, families, and staff! Our team is working hard behind the scenes, finalizing schedules, completing registrations, and making sure everything is in place for a successful start. We are counting down the days until Tuesday, August 11th, the first day of school!

This month’s newsletter is filled with important information to help your family get ready for a great year, including orientation dates and times, school supply lists, meal prices, and key details about arrival and dismissal procedures.

We are excited to welcome our students and families back and can’t wait to begin another amazing year together!

Sincerely,
Mr. Martin

We know you are excited to find out your new teachers, but we are still registering and rostering students. Schedules should go live during the first week of August in the new FOCUS app.

We must have a dismissal form on file for each and every student. We will have them on site during Orientation and/or you may send one to school with your student on the first day of school!

K-1 Dismissal Form

2-5 Dismissal Form

Announcing Our New Student Information System: Focus!

Clay County District Schools is transitioning to the Focus Student Information System (SIS) for the 2026-2027 school year. Focus will become your new hub for checking grades, attendance, and scheduling, replacing Synergy ParentVUE and StudentVUE.

July 6: The new Focus portal goes live!

One Quick Step to Prepare:

Note: You will continue to use the OneClay App for all school communications and Rooms; Only the student information portal is changing!

For full details, helpful FAQs, and updates, visit: oneclay.net/focusinfo

Say hello to even more in the One Clay app with “Rooms.” Parents and guardians should have received instructions via email to create their login to access “Rooms” within the district app. Rooms will be the primary method for school-to-guardian communication for the school year. Please make sure to download the app using the links below:

Download for Android https://aptg.co/GbKvH7

Download for iPhone https://aptg.co/7sy3gF

Be ready for the learning with your school supplies!
Click here for the lists!

Attention Parents/Guardians of bus riders! It's time to register your student(s) for transportation for the new school year!

If your child is moving to a new school, has changed their address, or is enrolled in a Summer School Program, registration will not be available until the week of July 14th.

Please note: The Chipmunk app will provide you with accurate, real-time information about your student's bus location.

Please visit our dedicated Transportation website at https://www.oneclay.net/o/ccds/page/transportation to register your child’s ridership and Chipmunk for bus tracking.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the Clay County District Schools Transportation Department by emailing routing@myoneclay.net or calling 904-336-0001, option 2.

Register today to ensure a smooth start to the new school year!

OVE will be passing out new Car Rider and Parent Walk-Up tags for all students whose parent/guardian wish to have the option of picking up their child(ren) in our car-rider loop A or B or at parent walk-up (for Kindergarten and 1st graders). The new tags will be available at Orientation.

For the safety of our students, previous years' tags will NOT be recognized by our car-rider team, and has always been our practice. Any individual wishing to pick up a student without a car tag or parent walk up tag will be asked to park and visit our front office to show valid ID.

State statute requires fingerprinting for any volunteer who participates in a classroom or school setting where left unattended or without staff supervision or who will chaperone students away from the supervision of CCDS staff. At OVE, parents do not work with students outside of the teacher's supervision, but if they wish to chaperone groups on field trips that may involve separation from the teacher, Level 2 Volunteer Clearance is required. Please click the link below for instructions for fingerprinting through Fieldprint

CCDS Level 2 Fingerprinting Instructions

Breakfast is served from 7:50 to 8:20. All students wanting breakfast should proceed to the B side entry door located closest to the cafeteria door facing The Goddard School.

School Opens @ 8:05 A.M. for all non-breakfast students.

Tardy Bell Rings @ 8:30 A.M.

Dismissal Begins @ 2:37 P.M.

Menus and prices for the upcoming school year can be found here.

The OVE Student & Family Handbook that covers many of the basic school operations and expectations can be found here.

The CCDS Student & Family Handbook & the Student Code of Conduct can be found here.