Hoover Access

The only entry for cars to the Hoover campus is near the Carlson Street intersection at East Charleston Road. You can only enter the school driveway by driving west on Charleston (from Middlefield). Taking a left turn onto campus going east on Charleston (coming from Alma Street) is illegal.
On foot or with a bike there are several ways to get to Hoover: through Mitchell Park, by the bike path along JLS and Hoover (on East Meadow at Waverley; on Charleston just East of Carlson, next to the cars' entry), and there is a small gate to the Schoolyard just off Charleston near Stevenson House. (This gate and the schoolyard gate between the Kindergarten classrooms and the Portables are only open in the early morning.)


ENTERING HOOVER CAMPUS BY CAR

The first leg of the roundway has two lanes:
In the morning, the right lane is for the Kindergarten drop-off (if it's empty you may use it to get through); the left lane ("keep clear") is for cars going to the grades 1-5 drop-off or looking for parking
At the end of school, the line for pick-up forms on the right side (there is no Kindergarten or any other pick-up on the first part of the roundway); the left lane is for cars looking for parking and should be kept open for emergency vehicles.

Please use main transportation arteries (Middlefield Road, Alma Street, El Camino Real, East Meadow Street, East Charleston Road) when transporting children to and from school. Be civil and do not cut through or park in the neighborhoods, if possible.
If you wish to park on campus, you must go to the parking spaces to the left of the pick-up lane or next to the Child Care Building; please use the walkway along the sport fields fence and around the Child Care Building to and from the schoolyard, and cross only at the designated crossings.

KINDERGARTEN DROP-OFF

The Kindergarten drop-off is between the portables and Kindergarten classrooms. It's for kindergartners only, though all children in a car with a Kindergartner may unload to avoid a second unloading event. Traffic monitors will be helping children out of the cars and into the schoolyard.
We need three volunteers here every morning 7:45-8:00. To help with Kindergarten traffic-duty please contact Randy Scarborough at 424-8135.

New Kindergarten parents don't have to worry yet about the Main Loading Zone; that'll only start for you in November, when the Kindergartners start some full schooldays. I hope to have a notice out to you by that time.

PICK-UP

At the end of their school day all students should be picked up at the drop-off and pick-up area in front of classrooms 1-8. The Kindergarten Drop-Off area is not a pick-up zone.
Please pull all the way forward or close to the last car in line against the right curb. Do not let children into your car on the second lane from the curb. Do not leave your car unattended in the drop-off/pick-up area.
If your student passengers are not in the pick-up waiting area, either park in designated parking or exit and circle through again.

GENERAL

Children may not leave the school grounds unless accompanied by an adult.
Cross only at the designated crossings, do not cross in the middle of the street.

ATTENTION DRIVERS

Please consider carpooling or parking in Mitchell park (enter at East Meadow or Middlefield): park at the tennis courts opposite the library for a six-minute walk to Hoover.
Do not let children or adults out of or into your car in the second lane from the curb.
Do not drop off or pick up students on Charleston: it would block the bike lane and interfere with cars entering and exiting the campus.
Making a left turn leaving the campus at Charleston is not allowed in the morning; in the afternoon it is not recommended.


Hoover Traffic Home

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These traced maps are a professional embarrassment to me but it's the best I can do at the moment; in the eighties I worked with AutoCAD in my job, also writing my own fonts and menus, but on a sad day in 1996 my 386 broke down and that was the end of that.