When at all possible, please notify us when your child is absent. A phone call is just fine and we ask for the call to come in before the first half of the day, or even before school begins. Absent students need to return with a note explaining the reason for being gone. An absence note is a must! Otherwise, we will record your student's absence as "unexcused."

Check in with the front office to let us know you want to take your student out of school early. Once you arrive in our office, we will notify the classroom teacher to send your student to the office. We will not dismiss students to walk alone to either go home or to appointments. You must be present to check out your child.

We know that a full stomach is the right way to start the day. So we serve a free breakfast every day in the cafeteria to any Fourth Avenue Jr. High student. We also serve lunch each day, and the cost is $1.00 per meal.

We ask that students come to school dressed ready to learn. Please wear clean and modest clothing. Wear your pants or shorts at the waistline. Shirts should be long enough that the student can tuck it in.

Please do not bring the following items to school: radios, tape recorders, electronics of any kind, expensive jewelry, large sums of money, or toys.

We try our best to return lost items to students, but we need your help. Whenever possible, please label your children's belongings. Be sure to label coats, sweaters, lunch pails, and anything else you would want returned to you if they were to get lost. Lost items will be stored in the front office, so please come by to claim your missing item.

 Yes. City law does require your student to wear a helmet for safety reasons. We also have bike racks available for parking the bikes, and we require students to lock their bikes. Fourth Avenue Jr. High is not responsible for lost, stolen, or damaged bikes.

Yes. Yuma Elementary School District offers bus transportation to students who live north of 1st Street and south of 8th street. Please remind your students that riding the bus is a privilege. Students who misbehave on the bus will lose their bus riding privileges.

Please label all of your child's medications properly and keep them in the school health office. Only our school nurse will hand out the medicine to a student. Prescription medicines must be prescribed by a doctor and have documentation telling how much and how often the medicine must be taken. Please be sure to contact the health office ahead of time if you want your child taking over-the-counter medicines, too.

We divide the school year into four grading periods and send out grades on the Thursday following the end of each period.

School begins at 8:15 a.m. and ends at 3:19 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Every Monday is an early release day on which students leave at 1:49 p.m. Please be on time to classes!