New Drop-Off/Pick-Up Plan Goes into Force This Week at Lavonia Elementary School

A reminder for parents of Lavonia Elementary School students who drop off and pick up their students that changes take effect when school starts this week on how that will work.

Beginning Thursday, there will be a new route for vehicles and school buses.

At their work session in December, the Board of Education heard from Lavonia Elementary School Principal Kasey Haley who explained that she was recently contacted by the Georgia Dept of Transportation that the daily drop-off and pick-up of students at the school has become a major traffic issue on the 77 Extension.

Haley said working with Assistant School Superintendent of Operations Carl Dekker, Lavonia Police, and G-DOT they were able to come up with a plan that would ease the traffic congestion on the Hartwell Highway.

Under the new traffic system, parents will drop their students off at the back of the school building and busses will unload and load students at the front.

Parent vehicles will turn down Brickyard Road to the back entrance on Misty Mills Road, turn into the school back lot, drop off their students, then turn around and go back out onto Misty Mills Road, and make a right to the 77 Ext/Hartwell Road.

Haley said new traffic signs will be posted, and no parent vehicles will be allowed to use the front entrance from 3:10 – 3:25 for pick up.

Also, all buses must use the front entrance of LES from Hwy. 77 and use the loop as a holding place for drop-off and pick-up.

Signs will be put up before the holiday with a QR code for parents to access a map of the new traffic route.

Again, the new vehicle pick-up and drop-off system will take effect on Thursday, January 4 when students return from the Christmas holiday.