8401 Leesville Road
Raleigh, NC 27613
Phone: 919-870-4200
Fax: 919-870-4188
Office Hours: 7:30 am - 4:30 pm
School Hours: 9:15 am - 3:45 pm
8401 Leesville Road
Raleigh, NC 27613
Phone: 919-870-4200
Fax: 919-870-4188
Office Hours: 7:30 am - 4:30 pm
School Hours: 9:15 am - 3:45 pm
The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) is the thirteenth largest school system in the Country, serving more than 118,000 students. WCPSS is committed to ensuring academic success for all students in the system while maintaining fiscal responsibility and accountability. The system was formed in 1976 with the merger of the former City of Raleigh and Wake County school systems. For more information about WCPSS, please visit our website at www.wcpss.net.
Question |
Person Responsible |
Phone |
Attendance |
Ellen Dupre |
870-4185 |
AG Program |
Mary Dishman |
870-4200 |
Buses |
Alvin McNeill |
508-9065 |
Cafeteria |
Afif Antoun |
870-4165 |
Counselor |
Gwen Peterson |
870-4190 |
YMCA (Early Arrival & After School) |
Kim Keith |
845-3875 |
Fax |
870-4188 |
|
Medications |
870-4200 |
|
Principal |
Cecelia Chapman |
870-4200 |
Special Programs |
Penny Nicholas |
870-4200 |
Meals may be purchased daily, but we recommend the purchase of a lunch ticket. Lunch tickets can be purchased each Monday morning in the cafeteria for any amount of meals you choose, at $1.75 per lunch. Milk, snack items, and desserts can be purchased separately. Parents are invited to join your child for lunch any day. No advance notice is required. We do ask that you sign our visitor book located in the office and wear a “visitors” tag while on campus. Please return the “visitors” tag when you leave.
Breakfast is also served in the cafeteria from 8:45 - 9:05 am.
Elementary School Cafeteria PricesAny person doing any volunteer work in a Wake County Public school must register each year through the school system’s volunteer registration program. Registration can be completed at any Wake County public school. LES has several computers in its media center where volunteer registration can be completed. Once the registration information is submitted, it can be several weeks before clearance is obtained, so all persons wanting to volunteer are encouraged to register early in the school year. Examples of duties that require volunteer registration and approval include (but are not limited to): media center volunteer, classroom helper or room parent, field trip chaperone, and tutoring.
Car Riders should use the circle driveway. Drivers are asked to remain in a single file line, letting your child out when you reach the front of the line. Parents choosing to walk their children into the building should park in the parking lot. We ask parents to say good-bye to their children in the front lobby and NOT go down the school hallways. Bus riders should follow the sidewalk and enter through the front door.
No student should enter the building before 8:45 am unless enrolled in early arrival or having permission from a staff member.
Car riders and daycare van riders should exit through the front door. Cars should move single-file through the carpool line. Drivers can also park in our parking lot and meet their children in front of the school. Please do not park along the curbs in the parking lot. Parents can also meet their children in the front lobby after the 3:45 bell rings. We do ask that parents NOT go down the hallways to their children’s classrooms. Daycare van riders should meet their rides at the bottom of the front sidewalk as their vans are called over our in-house TV system. Bus riders should exit through the breezeway doors as their buses are called over the TV system.
Parents should inform the teacher in writing each time a child’s usual means of transportation from school changes. Any phone call regarding a change in transportation home for that day needs to be received in the
office no later than 3:00 pm to ensure delivery to the student.
A late arrival / early dismissal notebook is located in the main office. Parents should sign in or out any child who arrives after 9:15 am or leaves before 3:45 pm. The office staff will assist you in getting your child in or out of class.
At Leesville Elementary we understand that success in school is directly related to regular attendance. We ask that parents respect the instructional day by arriving on time and spending the entire day at school. If students must miss school due to an excused absence (sick, doctor’s appointment, religious holiday, or death in the family etc), please send a note with your child within two days of their absence. If a note is not received within two days or if the absence is not excused as classified by policy 6000.3, it will be marked as unexcused. After six and ten unexcused absences, parents will receive an attendance letter reminding them of Wake County’s attendance policy. The school social worker may also contact the family to better understand the causes for the absences and work with the parent to make a plan for improvement. Continued missed days may result in a court referral or retention. For more information on Wake County’s attendance policy, please visit http://www.wcpss.net/policy-files/series/policies/6000-bp.html.
The LES health room is monitored by our office staff. A student may rest in the health room for 30 minutes before returning to class or leaving school with a parent. A student’s temperature will be taken in case of illness. Parents will be called if the
temperature in over 99 degrees. Therefore it is essential that parents provide us with contact phone numbers. We send home a student release card at the beginning of each school year. Please fill out the new card and return to school promptly.
Our office staff can only apply Band-Aids and ice packs. Any medication,
prescription or otherwise, must be signed in at the main office. Also, a medical release form (Form 1702), available in the school office, must be on file before we are allowed to administer any medication to any child. Prescription medicine to be given must be in the original bottle from the pharmacy. If you keep a portion of the prescription at home, send the school portion in the original pharmacy bottle. Any time a student takes a medication it is recorded in our Medication Log.
We welcomes visitors to our campus. We do ask that all of our visitors and volunteers register using the Ident-A-Kid software program located in the front office upon their arrival. Visitors new to the school will need to provide a driver's license until we become more familiar with you. Also, please wear a “Visitor” tag while in the building, the Ident-a-Kid program will take your picture and print you a name tag after you have register. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that you remember to log out of the software program before you leave the school. This allows us to know who is and is not in the building, which provides a safer environment for our children. Check in the main office to sign your child out if you must pick him/her up early. Anyone checking out a child who has permission will also have to show his/her driver's license. Your child will be called to the office. If you need to get a message to your child, call the main school number, 870-4200.
Found items with no identification in them are placed on display on tables in the cafeteria area. Please have your child check there for any lost items. Labeling all of your child’s belongings will help us return any found items. All unclaimed items will be donated to charity.
Each student should take home every Friday a folder from his/her homeroom teacher that includes work samples from assignments completed and school / PTA announcements. Parents should sign and return the folder, keeping the contents.
Teachers will include a newsletter highlighting upcoming assignments, special events, and
classroom happenings.
It is assumed that homework will be done by students outside of school hours. The amount of work shall increase as grade levels increase and shall be commensurate with student abilities and source content. Total assignments should not exceed specified maximum nightly limits.
K – 2nd - 20 minutes per day and 3rd - 5th - 50 minutes per day.
A standards based (SB) report card has been developed to provide consistency to the grading process and to better inform parents of their children’s progress toward mastering the state’s Standard Course of Study (SCOS). It was also developed to align with the new laws and policies such as the NC Student Accountability Standards and the WCPSS Promotion Policy.
The purpose of the SB report card is to inform students and parents about a student’s performance on the grade level standards. It measures progress against a uniform standard rather than other subjective assessments. Information related to growth and overall strengths and needs is captured in the teacher comment section.
The SB report card provides a consistent grading scale; work habits and conduct are separate; and teacher comments are specific. The student performance levels of 1 to 4 indicate whether students have met the expectations set by the state in the SCOS and indicate whether the student has the necessary skills to be successful in the next quarter.
Here are a few of the features you will notice:
- a rating scale of 1 to 4 to measure student performance instead of letter grades
- specials (music, art, etc) graded twice a year instead of four times
- ratings in specials have two parts, content and participation, instead of a single grade
- conduct and work habits are separate from academic ratings and use a 1-3 scale
On the comments section, the teacher has a space to provide specific feedback on strengths, areas for improvement, and interventions being used at the school.
All students are responsible for complying with and are expected to be familiar with the WCPSS Code of Student Conduct and school board policies governing student behavior and conduct. All Code of Student Conduct policies are contained in the WCPSS Student/Parent Handbook, which is distributed to all students and parents at the beginning of each school year or upon enrollment in the WCPSS. If there is a conflict between the rules expressed in this handbook/agenda/planner and the Code of Student Conduct policies, the WCPSS Code of Student Conduct policies shall take precedence.
Todos los estudiantes son responsables por el cumplimiento y el conocimiento del Código de Conducta Estudiantil y de todas las políticas de la Junta Escolar que gobiernan el comportamiento y la conducta estudiantil. Todas las políticas del Código de Conducta Estudiantil se encuentran en el manual de WCPSS de Estudiantes/Padres, el cual se distribuye a todos los padres y estudiantes al principio de cada año escolar o al matricularse en el WCPSS. Si hay un conflicto entre las reglas expresadas en este manual de Estudiantes/Padres y el manual/agenda/planificador de la escuela de su hijo(a) las reglas expresadas en este manual deben tomar prioridad.