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Mukilteo School District explains start times, transportation, meals and family supports for incoming kindergarten families
Summary
District staff outlined school start times, bus eligibility and safety rules, free meals next year, volunteer/background-check procedures and family engagement supports, and described Title I and LAP grant programs and multilingual services.
Mary Williams, the district’s director of equity, family and community partnerships, told families elementary schools’ first bell is at 8:55 a.m. and school starts at 9:00 a.m.; she said Pathfinder kindergarten center schools have a first bell at 9:25 a.m. and start at 9:30 a.m. “It is super important that your child be on time and be in attendance,” Williams said, noting attendance sets routines that support learning.
Williams outlined family communication and supports: families are automatically added to ParentSquare after registration for emails and texts; the district runs a family engagement center at Explorer Middle School (House 3) with family engagement liaisons available Monday through Thursday 1:15–4:15 p.m.; the district offers volunteer opportunities and a background-check process that produces a one-year clearance.
On transportation, Karen Musiker, executive director for district support services, said the district transportation page lists bus eligibility and routes; “generally speaking, if you live more than 1 mile from the school, you will be eligible for bus ridership,” she explained. Musiker emphasized safety rules for kindergarteners, including that kindergarten students must be met by an authorized adult at the afternoon drop-off location.
Heather Frost, director of nutrition, said the district will serve free breakfast and lunch for all students next year, while noting a charge applies for second meals. She encouraged families to complete a lunch application because “the applications help support school funding and your own family benefits” and described menu access through the Nutrislice app and allergen-filtering features.
Becca Anderson, director of special services, described how IEPs transfer into kindergarten and confirmed that students already enrolled in district preschool special-education programs will roll up automatically into kindergarten without reenrolling. Elena Kelly, the director of multilingual education, described the home language survey (available in more than 40 languages) used to identify students who may qualify for additional language supports and promoted a Spanish–English dual-language program at Horizon Elementary that currently has first grade and will add second grade next year.
