The content found within the Royal Intermediate School Handbook can be found on this web page and its sub-pages. You can also download a PDF version of the RIS Handbook (English) or (Español).
Visiting Campus (due to COVID-19, this is currently on hold)
(Board Policy 4311)
We encourage visitors. All parents and other visitors sign in at the office before visiting our facilities. A visitor pass will be issued to the parent/guardian/visitor to ensure staff that this has been done. Parent/guardian/visitor may be asked to present photo identification upon request.
Volunteers
(Board Policy 3440)
Royal Intermediate needs and encourages parents/guardians to be involved in their child’s education. Parents formed a PTO in Royal City because they wanted to support academic and cultural programs, as well as enhance communication between home and school. There are a variety of opportunities to become involved. Volunteers will be asked to participate in a background check that can be conducted by the school secretary.
Personal Devices and Valuables Policy
Large sums of money and valuables must be left at home. If students bring any valuable item to school they do so AT THEIR OWN RISK. School personnel will not be required to investigate the loss or theft of those items. The school and district assume no responsibility for loss of students’ personal property. If cellphones are brought to school, the expectation is that they are turned off and left in backpacks/lockers during the entire school day. Cellphones may not be taken out of backpacks/lockers at all during the school day. Failure to adhere to this policy will result in disciplinary action.
Student Check Out
(Board Policy 3200)
No student shall be removed from the school grounds or from school buildings during school hours except by a person authorized to do so by a parent or legal guardian who has legal custody of the student. If a parent is picking up a student during school time, he or she must be checked out of the office with a signature and may be asked to present photo identification upon request.
Student’s Responsibility
(Board Policy 3200)
Students should come to school with the desire to learn. The school staff’s goal is to help children to succeed. However, the student must make personal effort to learn and participate in school. It is the student’s responsibility to cooperate with the teacher and to do the best that they can to learn. When students make a positive effort to learn, they find success.
Always try, cooperate with others, respect others, and manage yourself.
Student Rights
The mission of the district is to assure learning experiences to help all students develop skills, competencies and attitudes fundamental to achieving individual satisfaction as responsible, contributing citizens.
- A student shall have the right to educational opportunity and treatment in all aspects of the academic and activities program without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, pregnancy, previous arrests or incarcerations, or non-program-physical, sensory, or mental disabilities.
- A student shall enjoy freedom of speech, press, and assembly, providing such expression is not libelous, obscene, or disruptive.
- A student shall not be deprived of educational rights without due process.
- A student shall be punctual and regular in attendance unless officially excused.
Discrimination
Royal School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employee(s) has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:
Effie Dean, Civil Rights Coordinator, 504 coordinator, Title IX Officer, edean@royalsd.org, 901 Ahlers Rd. Royal City, Wa 99357, (509)346-2222
You can report discrimination and discriminatory harassment to any school staff member or to the district's Civil Rights Coordinator, listed above. You also have the right to file a complaint (see below). For a copy of your district’s nondiscrimination policy and procedure, contact your school or district office or view it online here.