Back to School Guide Sections

• Important Links
• Schools Hours
• Elementary Back
  to School Nights
• Middle School Back to School Nights
• Important High
  School Dates
• Other Events
  to Remember
• Club 360 Before &
  After School Program
• Online Registration System
• Home Access Center
• ARAMARK Meal Prices
• MET (McKinney
  Educational Television)
• Football Schedules
• McKinney Education Foundation
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
• Vento Homeless
  Assistance Act
• Special Education
  Services - FAQs
• Where to find
  more information?

Important Links

• Board of Trustees
• Board Meetings Schedule
• 2012-2013 School
  District Calendar
• 2012-2013 School
  Map & Addresses
• 2012-2013 Supply Lists

School Hours

• All Elementary Schools
  8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
• All Middle Schools
  8:45 AM - 3:45 PM
• All High Schools
  7:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Please click here for start times for the programs at Lawson Early Childhood Center.

Elementary Back to School Nights

Club 360 Before & After School Program

Club 360° is a childcare program hosted by McKinney ISD providing quality, safe care for children on school campuses. The program has four opportunities:

• Club 360° -- after-school program on school days (3-6:30 p.m.)
• Club 360° HOLIDAY -- care during school holidays and breaks (7 a.m.- 6:30 p.m.)
• Club 360° SUMMER -- an all day program offered during summer break (7 a.m.- 6:30 p.m.)
• Club 360° MINI CAMPS -- weeklong interest camps during summer break (9-2 p.m.)

Families may be eligible for reduced rates according to the qualifications of the free and reduced lunch program. 

Why should I enroll my child in the program?
Kids and parents love Club 360°! Each member of our staff provides exemplary child care through consistent and secure on-site service. The program offers a wide-range of activities for students that encompass a full circle of child development. These activities enhance the school curriculum, and children receive support for homework by campus teachers. While activities are designed with educational enhancement in mind, the main vehicle for delivery is fun. Students are grouped by age/grade and all activities are age appropriate. This special service is offered for less than $3.75/hour. Nowhere, outside your own home, can you find this kind of care for your child for such a bargain!

What goes on in a normal 360° day?
Club 360° begins immediately after school until 6:30 p.m. Students receive a snack and drink, then spend time with a campus teacher to get homework done. Children then rotate through age-appropriate group activities designed to engage interest and complement district curriculum. This is provided by McKinney ISD employees on the child’s home campus.

How do I sign up or get more information?
To enroll in one of the Club 360° programs, please click here to register online and pay fees. Call us anytime at 972-569-6235.

Online Registration System

The MISD Online Registration System provides a convenient way for parents/guardians to fill out the most common forms your students will need in order to register for school in MISD.

Current MISD Students

For current MISD students, online registration opens August 13, 2012 and closes on September 14, 2012. After September 14, 2012 you will need to go to your student’s campus to complete the required registration forms.

Each MISD parent/guardian has been assigned a login ID and password that will allow you to register your current MISD student using the Online Registration System.

Prior to August 13, 2012 parents/guardians who have submitted an email address to the district will receive an email from MISD with their login ID and password.

If you have not submitted an email address, please contact your student’s campus and provide them with an email address so that you may receive your login ID and password.

Click here on/after August 13, 2012 to log in and begin registration: https://ors.mckinneyisd.net.

New MISD Students

Parents/guardians of students new to McKinney ISD may access the Online Registration System beginning July 27, 2012 to start the registration process.

After submitting your application online, you must complete the registration process in person during a designated registration date:

Elementary and Middle School Students
Date: July 31, 2012
Location: McKinney ISD Central Administration Office
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Registration will resume on August 14, 2012 at your student’s campus. Due to renovations at Faubion Middle School, the FMS administrative offices have been temporarily relocated to Boyd High School. Please call 469-302-6900 to find out where to go for FMS registration beginning August 14, 2012.

You will need to bring the following documents:

• Student’s birth certificate
• Student’s updated shot records
• Student’s social security card (optional)
• Proof of residency: a current utility bill (gas, water or electric); a contract on a home with closing dates and signatures; or a signed apartment lease
  
  

For scheduling purposes, middle school students should bring a copy of their most recent report card or a copy of withdrawal papers from their previous school.

High School Students
Date: July 31, 2012
Location: Campus*
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

* Due to renovations at McKinney High School, the MHS administrative offices have been temporarily relocated to McKinney Boyd High School. Parents/Guardians registering students for MHS will need to go to the McKinney Boyd High School campus to register for MHS.

Registration will resume on August 14, 2012 at your student’s campus. MHS students should call 469-302-5700 to find out where to go for registration beginning August 14, 2012.

You will need to bring the following documents:

• Student’s birth certificate
• Student’s updated shot records
• Student’s social security card (optional)
• Proof of residency: a current utility bill (gas, water or electric); a contract on a home with closing dates and signatures; or a signed apartment lease
  
  

For scheduling purposes, high school students should bring a copy of their high school transcript when registering.

Click here to log in and begin registration: https://ors.mckinneyisd.net.

Have questions? For answers to Frequently Asked Questions, click here or visit http://www.mckinneyisd.net/parents/enrolling/ for more registration information.
For additional information about registration please call your student's campus. If you have questions about school zones, please contact the McKinney ISD Central Administration office at 469-302-4000. Additional information regarding registration, school zones, events and schools are provided at www.mckinneyisd.net.

Home Access Center:

Available for use on September 5

Ready to check grades? Use the web address below to view grades for middle and high school students. The center will be available for access on September 5.

https://hac.mckinneyisd.net/homeaccess/

The HAC can be accessed using the same login ID and password information used for online registration. If you have any questions or need login information, please contact your school’s main office.

ARAMARK Meal Prices

Lunch Prices

School Breakfast and Lunch Pricing for 2011-2012

	Breakfast	Lunch
Elementary	$1.00	$2.20
Secondary	$1.00	$2.45
Adult	$1.30	$3.00

ARAMARK, McKinney ISD’s food service department, will raise prices by a minimal amount on student lunches for the 2012-2013 school year. We are very proud that meal price increases have been infrequent over the last decade while other districts have seen consistent price changes. However, due to the increase in food and labor costs, the food service department can no longer cover the increase in expenses at our current meal price and will make a ten cent price adjustment increase effective on the first day of school.

MET (McKinney Educational Television)

McKinney ISD’s 24-hour informational news and promotional channel is available on Time Warner Cable Channel 98 or streamed online through our MISD Video Portal. The portal can be accessed at http://vp.mckinneyisd.net. Also – follow us on Facebook where we regularly post MET media to the McKinney ISD wall.

MET is home to weekly and monthly episodes of informative and entertaining media: Sports Talk features high school athletics; Studio M spotlights teachers, students and parents within the district; and Dr. Kennedy’s Video Blog offers our superintendent’s perspective on the district and education in general.

MET provides the district an outlet for timely information on a wide spectrum of topics from PTA/PTO meetings to campus events, testing dates and student activities. MET also brings the classroom and performing arts venues directly to you! Catch special programming on the district’s scholastic achievements, like Blue Ribbon schools and the Distinguished Student Award Dinner, as well as fine arts events, such as choir concerts, musicals and art shows – all year long, only on MET!

In addition, keep posted on all things McKinney ISD with MET’s 24-hour computerized information loop featuring school announcements, job postings, candid school photos and several other tidbits of district news. McKinney Educational Television – your schools, your station!

Football Schedules

Click here to download the MISD high school football schedules. (PDF)

McKinney Education Foundation

Now in its 20th year, the McKinney Education Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization dedicated to enriching education in McKinney and encouraging and assisting McKinney students to achieve a higher education.

MEF provides scholarships to graduates of McKinney high schools - over $325,000 awarded in 2012 - and funds MEF Advisors (higher education specialists) in each of the three high schools. MEF Advisors help students apply for additional scholarships and financial aid from sources outside of MEF. In the eight years since the program began, MEF Advisors have helped students secure $54 million in outside scholarship money. Today, 50 percent of MISD high school graduates receive some type of college financial assistance due to the efforts of MEF.

The McKinney Education Foundation also awards Professional Development and Classroom Grants to deserving MISD teachers and staff. Most of these grants are subsidized by MISD teachers and staff themselves in the form of monthly payroll deductions to the MEF Staff Fund. These grants give teachers the freedom to implement innovative ideas that otherwise would go unfunded. In addition, they help teachers take courses, attend seminars and engage in other activities that help them develop as professionals and educators.

Contact MEF today to find out how you can make a donation, create a scholarship or endowment for yourself, a business, a civic organization, or to memorialize a loved one. An investment in the McKinney Education Foundation is an investment in our children and our future.

Tel: 469-302-6313
www.MmEeFf.com

Mark your calendar for these important MEF 2012-2013 dates:
Saturday, September 15, 2012: MISD Night at FC Dallas
Friday, May 17, 2013: Annual MEF Scholarship Awards Night

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. 1232g) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.

McKinney ISD provides notice of the following information to parents of each student at the beginning of each school year or upon enrollment of the student after the beginning of a school year: (1) a written explanation of the provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g), regarding the release of directory information about the student and (2) written notice of the right of the parent to object to the release of directory information about the student under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20U.S.C. Sec. 1232g).

Certain information about district students is considered directory information and will be released to anyone who follows the procedures for requesting the information unless the parent or guardian objects to the release of the directory information about the student.

Parents will be given the opportunity to give consent to the release of ALL or NONE of the directory information listed below. If you do not want McKinney ISD to disclose directory information from your child’s education records without your prior written consent, you must notify the district by filling out the FERPA form that will be sent to parents at the beginning of the school year. Each campus will be sending home the form and we request that this be returned to your child’s campus within 10 days of receiving the form.

McKinney ISD has designated the following information as directory information:

• Weight and height of members of athletic teams
• Dates of attendance
• Enrollment status
• Grade level
• Most recent educational institution attended
• Student’s name
• Date and place of birth
• Photograph
• Honors and awards received
• Participation in officially recognized activities and sports

Directory information cannot include social security numbers or student identification numbers. In addition, the McKinney ISD Board of Trustees has determined certain student information is not considered directory information:

The following IS NOT directory information:

• Physical address
• Email address
• Telephone number

Each campus will distribute a Release of Student Information (FERPA) form at the beginning of the school year for your review. All FERPA forms are maintained at the campus level.

McKinney Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvement Act

The federal McKinney Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvement Act and Texas State law (Texas Education Code Chapter 25) protect the right for homeless children and youth to receive a free and appropriate public education.

Homelessness includes children and youth who are living with a friend, relative or someone else because they lost their home or can’t afford housing, children and youth who are staying in a motel or hotel due to lack of adequate alternative accommodations, children and youth who are living in an emergency or transitional shelter or a domestic violence shelter. It also includes children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations or many other similar settings.

Under the law, no student shall be stigmatized by school personnel due to homelessness. For additional information contact P.J. Holland, McKinney ISD Director of Student Services at 469-302-4000.

Special Education Services - FAQs

“My child received special education services in a previous school district. How do I make sure those services continue in my child’s new school?”
If a child was receiving special education services in a previous school district, it is important to notify the child’s new school of this immediately upon enrollment. It is helpful to provide the new school with a copy of the child’s most recent evaluation and the student’s current individual education plan (IEP).

Once notified that the student received special education services, the campus staff will review the child’s most current IEP and implement comparable services. The child’s most recent evaluation will be reviewed to determine if additional testing is needed. The campus will convene an IEP meeting within 30-school days of verification that the child was eligible for special education services to develop and adopt an IEP for the remainder of the school year.

If you need additional information related to special education services for students new to MISD please contact the Special Populations Department at 469-302-6302 or at misdsped@mckinneyisd.net.

“My child’s previous school district initiated a special education evaluation, but it was not completed before we moved. What should I do?”
If a child was being evaluated to determine if he or she was eligible for special education services, it is important to notify the child’s new school of this immediately upon enrollment. The MISD campus will contact the child’s previous school in an effort to coordinate the prompt completion of the evaluation.

If you need additional information related to special education evaluations that were already in progress for students new to MISD please contact the Olga Pace at 469-302-6302 or at opace@mckinneyisd.net.

“My child can’t keep up in school. I just don’t know what to do...”
If a child is experiencing learning difficulties, the parent should contact the child’s campus to learn about the district’s overall general education referral or screening system for special services. This system links students to a variety of interventions to support students who struggle with reading, math, or behavior. Students having difficulty in the regular classroom should be considered for tutorial, compensatory and other support services that are available to all students.

At any time, a parent is entitled to request an evaluation for special education services. Within a reasonable amount of time, the district must decide if the evaluation is needed. If it is determined that an evaluation is needed, the parent will be notified and asked to provide consent for the evaluation. The district must complete the evaluation and the report within 60 calendar days from the date the written consent was received. The district must give a copy of the report to the parent.

Where to find more information?

misdGO

In August 2011, McKinney ISD launched its mobile application, misdGO. With more than 11,000 downloads to date, misdGO is believed to be one of the most comprehensive k-12 apps in the country, providing a host of information to MISD students and parents – news alerts, calendars, lunch menus, access to grades and much more. Push notifications enable the district to send out vital, up to the minute information about school closings due to inclement weather. For more information and download links, go to www.mckinneyisd.net/misdgo or visit the iPhone App Store or Android Market to download the latest version of misdGO today!

McKinney ISD Online

The McKinney ISD website, www.mckinneyisd.net, is the main information hub for the district. Find up-to-date news, departmental and school information, district calendars, teacher and student feature stories and much more!

www.mckinneyisd.net features a clean, organized design, one-click access to district news and events, important quick links, organized departmental web pages, one page access to all district calendars and an all-inclusive multimedia slider that creatively updates visitors on current district news and events through video and audio presentations.

MISD E-Mail Extra

In addition to posting news and information on misdGO and the district website, the McKinney ISD Communications Department sends out a periodic e-newsletter called MISD E-Mail Extra.

More than 10,000 subscribers receive the e-newsletter, which provides timely information about everything from district issues to notices about school closings due to inclement weather. In addition, the e-newsletter includes school board meeting updates, actions and decisions, student and staff achievements and recognitions.

E-Mail Extra is also a way for the district to notify subscribers when incidents may occur, such as a precautionary evacuation of a school.

Subscribing to MISD E-Mail Extra is free and easy. Simply visit the McKinney ISD website at www.mckinneyisd.net and click on the mail icon under “Follow McKinney ISD.”

ParentLink

The ParentLink phone system enables the District to inform parents about school and district events, attendance concerns and safety and emergency notifications. There is no need to sign up, as phone numbers are automatically uploaded from campus information systems.

If your phone number should change, please contact your child’s campus and ask the registrar to update your number.

The system is primarily used for four purposes: to provide parents with important district information (such as upcoming TAKS and STAAR testing dates), to provide parents with emergency notifications (such as school closings due to inclement weather), to provide parents with attendance notifications when a child is absent and to notify parents when lunch account balances are low.

Facebook/Twitter

Current and breaking district news, as well as fun pictures and videos posted weekly.

FeedBurner

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