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Back To School Resources
Our website includes year-round information about academics, support services, and resources. Schools also provide specific communication to families just before the school year begins.
Below is information that you may find especially helpful as you prepare for a new school year. This information is updated each summer as your official Back to School Guide and can be referenced throughout the year.
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- August 28 - School Open Houses -3:30 - 5:30 PM
- September 3 – First Day of School for Grades 1-12
- September 3 -5 – WAKids Conferences for Kindergarten
- September 8 – First Day of School for K, Pre-K, TTK, HC/OHVA,
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Our district and each school have several ways to get involved! Whether you want to volunteer in the classroom or an event, join or support the PTA, join an advisory committee, or become a district employee, we encourage you to learn more.
Each school website has a calendar on its home page with the latest events and activities. Each school website also has a “Get Involved” section where you can learn more. Check back on these pages often as new opportunities pop up throughout the year.
Get Involved with the District
Explore school-specific opportunities
- Get Involved at Oak Harbor High School
- Get Involved at North Whidbey Middle School
- Get Involved at Oak Harbor Intermediate School
- Get Involved at Crescent Harbor Elementary
- Get Involved at Hillcrest Elementary
- Get Involved at Oak Harbor Elementary
- Get Involved at Broad View Elementary
- Get Involved at Olympic View Elementary
- Get Involved at Hand-in-Hand Early Learning Center
- Get Involved at Exceptional Academy
- Get Involved at Oak Harbor Virtual Academy
- Get Involved at HomeConnection
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Resources to help families with early learners entering preschool and kindergarten
Early Learning, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten Readiness
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We are committed to providing the necessary school supplies and programs to make sure students receive a quality education in Oak Harbor Public Schools. We are able to provide school supplies to all classes and academic and extracurricular programs free of charge to our students through the incredible generosity of our community through the support of our local levy. Our schools will purchase the basic supplies students need for learning, as we do with books and other materials. You are welcome to provide your student with their own personal supplies.
Elementary & Intermediate Schools
School supplies provided in the classrooms.
Supplies from home:
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Optional: Backpack and water bottle
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Required: Headphones (wired preferred, but wireless will work as well.) Please contact your school’s front office if you are unable to provide these to your student.
Middle School
School supplies provided, as needed.
Supplies from home:
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Optional: Backpacks
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Required: Headphones (wired preferred, but wireless will work as well.) Please contact your school’s front office if you are unable to provide these to your student.
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Encouraged: Pencils and Pens
High School
School supplies provided, as needed.
Supplies from home:
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Optional: Backpacks
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Required: Headphones (wired preferred, but wireless will work as well.) Please contact your school’s front office if you are unable to provide these to your student.
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Encouraged: Pencils and Pens
Donations
The main purpose of this initiative is to reduce expenses for families. If you would like to continue to support our students, we encourage you to make a monetary donation to the Oak Harbor Education Foundation.
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ParentSquare provides a simple and safe way for everyone at school to connect. With ParentSquare you can:
- Receive all school and classroom communication through your preferred notification settings via email, text, or app
- Communicate in your preferred home language with automatic translation
- Direct message teachers and staff
- Comment and ask questions on posts
- View upcoming events on your school’s calendar
- Access your school's documents and pictures/videos that come in your ParentSquare messages
- Easily sign up to volunteer and/or bring items
- Easily fill out required forms online
When you log onto ParentSquare over the summer you should see your student’s school, but the class lists will not be available until they are released by the schools individually at the end of August.
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Regular transportation is provided for students residing outside the one-mile walking area of their home school attendance area. Please fill out the Transportation Request Form to request student transportation or to request a change to your current arrangement throughout the year. If you submit a form over the summer, the transportation team will contact you in late August.
Oak Harbor Public Schools will be using a new app called BusRight that will allow you to keep track of your student's school bus route to and from school directly from your smartphone.
For any questions, please contact our transportation team at 360.279.5570.
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The following schools will have free school meals for all students for the 2025-2026 school year:
- Broad View Elementary
- Crescent Harbor Elementary
- Oak Harbor Elementary
- Olympic View Elementary
- HomeConnection
- Hand-in-Hand Early Learning Center
To maintain free meals, applications for free and reduced lunch must be submitted by families every year. Be sure to set up an e-Funds account to make payments and monitor account balances.
Monthly school menus are available through your school's website on the home page. Additional information about nutrition and meals is available on the district website under resources.
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Schedules are implemented with consideration of ongoing feedback from transportation services, staff, and families.
Our district observes early-release Mondays.
Individual schedules are available in the "Our School" section of each website. A comprehensive schedule is available on the district website under "Resources."
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Class schedules will be made available at school sites, ParentSquare, and Skyward Family Access closer to the start of the school year. Contact your school’s front office if you have any questions.
This page will be updated once schedules have been released for the 2025-2026 school year.
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All health plans and healthcare provider orders are good for one school year only.
If your child needs a health plan or needs to take medication during the school day (this includes any prescription, over-the-counter medications, or inhalers used at school, or after-school activities), please download the Parent Information and School Medication Form from the district website. The district's Health & Wellness page also has information regarding inhalers and Epi-Pens at school.
Forms may also be picked up at your school’s front office.
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Oak Harbor Public Schools is proud to issue one Chromebook for each student in our K-12 programs thanks to the generous and continued support of the community through local levies.
Students who are transitioning buildings will return their Chromebook devices yearly as will our Homeconnection and Oak Harbor Virtual Academy Students. All students who are leaving the district will need to return their devices before leaving.
Students who will return their Chromebooks at the end of the year:
- 6th Grade Students (or 5-6)
- 8th Grade Students
- 12th Grade Students
- OHVA
- HomeConnection
Please call our Information Services (IS) office at 360.279.5589 with any questions.
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Attendance matters! Start the school year off strong with good attendance practices.
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The safety of our students and staff is always our first priority in Oak Harbor Public Schools. Our school adopted the “I Love U Guys” Standard Response Protocol (SRP). Students and staff are trained for procedures on five specific actions: Hold, Secure, Lockdown, Evacuate and Shelter. More information on our safety procedures can be found on our website.
Check Your Emergency Contact Information
Back to School time is a great opportunity to double check that your student’s emergency contact information is up to date in our Skyward Student Information System. In order to receive emergency phone calls and text alerts, you will need to make sure you have a cell phone listed in the second phone number line in Skyward. If you are not sure how to update or check your phone number listed, please contact your school’s front office for support.
Door Intercoms
With the exception of Crescent Harbor Elementary and Hand-in-Hand/HomeConnection schools, who will be receiving this safety enhancement in their new school buildings, all other Oak Harbor schools will implement a new door-locking system and related procedures in the 2025-2026 school year. Olympic View Elementary and Oak Harbor Intermediate School piloted the program during the 2024-2025 school year.
Signage with instructions will be installed at all of the schools to inform visitors of the new procedures. When you arrive at one our schools piloting the program after school begins, you will need to be buzzed in to be able to enter the school through the front door. You will see a device with a button and a camera near the front door entrance, you will then press the button the device, which will alert our front office staff that someone needs to be let into the building. Visitors should prepare to state their name and purpose for visiting when they arrive. Once you are buzzed in, you will proceed to the front office to be checked in. More information and frequently asked questions can be found on our website.
Visitor Management System
Keeping our students and staff safe means knowing who is in our school buildings at all times in the unlikely case of an emergency. The visitor management system allows us to electronically screen visitors, contractors, and volunteers coming into our schools. The system replaces the old paper visitor sign-in sheets. All visitors will be asked during regular school hours to present a form of identification to enter school grounds or to check a student out of a school site.
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Share your back-to-school photos on your first day!
Print a Back to School Sign, take a photo, and post it on social media with hashtag #OneOakHarbor to be a part of our Back to School photo gallery.
Even if you don’t print a sign, we’d love to see your back-to-school photos! Make sure to tag @OakHarborPS on Facebook and Instagram!