School Safety Plan

In accordance with SB187 and EC 35294.6, all schools have adopted a Safe School Action Plan. These plans are reviewed annually and are available for public view in the school office. Disaster drills are conducted monthly, as are fire drills.

Hoover School provides a safe and clean facility for our students. In order to ensure the safety of students, we ask that all volunteers and visitors sign-in in the office and obtain a brightly colored visitor's badge. Students and staff members know to look for such a badge on any unknown adult on campus as well as to report adults without badges to the office. Substitute teachers are also assigned a brightly colored badge to wear that shows students and staff that they too belong on campus.

Students are released only to persons whose names are listed on the school emergency cards and who provide picture identification attesting to identity. If a student is ill or has a medical appointment, we maintain a special release and sign-out process. Careful precautions are taken to abide by particular custody arrangements that parents make us aware of.

Each year precautionary measures are taken to notify parents new to Hoover School that after the first few days of school, they need to make arrangements to say good-bye to their children at the front door or front steps of the school, rather than walking on campus to the classrooms. The Hoover staff is responsible for supervising students from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Hoover School has a well-organized disaster preparedness plan that includes updated emergency equipment and supplies. Our Health Aide is trained in First Aid and CPR, as are most of the teachers and the principal. The Health Aide assists students in the event of minor injury as well as in routine health issues. Additionally, a positive relationship exists between Hoover School and the Whittier Police Department. They support us with law and traffic enforcement when needed, as well as providing annual safety assemblies for the students.