AREA SCHOOLS INFORMATION
Students living on Fort Rucker will attend school on Fort Rucker at the Fort Rucker Primary and Elementary Schools for grades pre kindergarten through the sixth grade. Beginning in the seventh grade students may attend Danville, Enterprise or Ozark City Schools. All three school systems provide bus transportation from all housing areas on post. The choice is up to each student's family. All three school systems are on a block scheduling system for high school.
For high school students who are transferring to the Ft. Rucker area in the middle of the year who currently have a six or seven period day, Coffee County Schools are the only schools in the local area on a traditional schedule. The New Brockton High School is the nearest Coffee County School to Ft. Rucker. It takes about twenty-five minutes to drive to New Brockton from housing areas on Ft. Rucker. At present there is no bus transportation from New Brockton.
Fort Rucker Schools will release students early on Wednesdays for staff training. The Elementary School will be out at 1:15 and the Primary School will be out at 1:45 on Wednesdays.
The safety record of the public schools in the Fort Rucker is available on the Alabama State Department of Education web site at www.alsde.edu. Select “reports” on the menu-select by school system. On the next screen toggle reports at the top and system, then select either Coffee County, Daleville, Enterprise or Ozark City School System. Select the most recent report card, hit continue. You can go to the previous page and select by school and get a report on each school also. On the lower left side of the first page of each report is the safety and discipline section that covers school safety. School administrators are required by law to report certain incidents. Violence is not tolerated in these schools. The rate of reported incidents at public schools in the Fort Rucker area is less than one incident per hundred thousand student days.
AREA SCHOOL SYSTEMS
For Information on schools in our area click on the links below.
School Registration
To register a child at any of these schools you will need the following documents:
School Bus Schedule
Schools off Fort Rucker have a Bus Schedule for those children living on Post. Click Here for more details
1. The child’s Birth Certificate
2. Child’s copy of the blue immunization certificate obtainable from Lyster Army Hospital or your local doctor or State Health Department 347-9574 or 774-3111 based on shot records
3. Child’s Social Security Card
4. Unofficial copies of school records or transfer / report card grades
5. If the child to be enrolled is not residing with birth parents, copies of court custody documents will be needed
Register your child at the school they will attend. If you do not know which school that is or have other questions, contact the School Liaison Officer 255-9812 |
All dates of holidays that extend over a period of time, start on the first full day students will not be in school and end on the last day students will not be in school.
