Carpool

If you are looking to carpool with other parents, please visit our carpool page:

Drop-Off/Pick-Up Process

Odyssey Charter School relies solely upon parents to drop-off and pick-up their children from school each day. Every family at Odyssey Charter School is assigned a carpool number.  Odyssey Charter School will give 2 “family” cards to each family at the time of enrollment.  The family cards will have your last name and an assigned number on them. You may purchase additional carpool cards at the front desk for $5.00 per card.

Family cards are placed on the passenger side visor of each vehicle that will be dropping off or picking up students at Odyssey.  Please make sure your card is visible anytime you are in our carpool lanes or at the school.  We have hundreds of children to be picked up each day and we have developed a system that is both safe and efficient, but it requires your support and patience.

*If you are wanting to carpool with another family, please contact the front office at office@odysseycharter.net and we will issue you a separate yellow “group carpool” card to display on your rear view mirror.  This will be a different number that will include every student in your group.

Drop-Off Process

To safely and efficiently drop off the children in the morning, please do the following:

• Students may be dropped off after 8:15 A.M.  If possible, please keep students in the car until the doors open.
• Before pulling into a drop-off zone, please ensure that the children are ready to exit your vehicle (coats on, backpacks in hand, and kisses planted).
• Please pull forward as far as you can before dropping off students.
• Please drop off the students only in the drop-off zones (not on the street).
• After dropping off students, please use the exit lane to depart. You must turn right only when leaving the school. You cannot make u-turns in front of the school or in the cul de sac (see map).
• If you are walking your student to school please say your goodbyes at the front door.

Pick-Up Process

To safely and efficiently pick-up the children after school, please do the following:

• Please have your passenger visor down with your family card visible when approaching your carpool zone. If you are participating in a group carpool, please have your yellow group card hanging on your rear view mirror.
• When you pull up to the school, follow the directions of staff in yellow vests and make sure to pull as close as possible to the car in front of you.  Place your car in park. When the whistle is blown and the STOP sign is in the air, please be alert and not on your cell phone.  Do not move your car, do not get out of your car, and do not leave your car while students are loading vehicles.
• While you are waiting in your car for your turn to come in the loading zone, an Odyssey employee will walk down the line and type in the number displayed on your card.  This number notifies your student you have arrived and are waiting outside.
• When the whistle is blown and the sign changes to SLOW, please move forward carefully following the directions of staff. Remember, you can only go east (right) onto Quality Drive when leaving the school.
• During the pick-up process, please do not ask the teachers for a status report on your student.
• Parents walking to the school to pick up their students must wait outside for students to come out.

Facebook Carpool Page

Parents interested in finding other parents to carpool to school with can contact each other through Odyssey’s Carpool Facebook page .  This is a private group and parents will need to request to be added.

Odyssey’s Safe Walking/Biking Map

For those choosing to walk or bike to school, please see our Safe Routes map.  Odyssey provides bike racks on the south east side of the school for students to safely leave their bikes during school.