Kirkbride School

09/08/2026

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, September 9th from 5:00 to 7:00pm.

08/23/2026

Kirkbride teachers and staff are excited to welcome back families and students for the 2026–2027 school year. Below is some helpful information for admission and dismissal. See you tomorrow!

First Day of School Grades 1-8
8:50 AM–3:39 PM
Breakfast begins at 8:15 in the Night Garden lunchroom.

Arrival:

Grades 1-4: Students should line up in the schoolyard with their classroom, between 8:30-8:50 am.

Grades 5-8 Students: Students should arrive at the 7th Street door. Staff will es**rt students to the cafeteria or gymnasium, where they will be supervised by Kirkbride staff until the official start of the school day.

Dismissal is at 3:30pm

Grades 5-8 students and students in AS classes will be dismissed from the 7th Street exit. All students are to walk directly home. If an older sibling is responsible for picking up a younger sibling, they should meet the student in the schoolyard immediately after they are dismissed.

Grades 1-4 students will be dismissed in the schoolyard. Students will be dismissed by class and released to the parent or adult on the pickup list. Children are directed to remain with their teacher until the teacher can verify that the proper adult (or sibling) has arrived.

05/26/2026

05/20/2026

Kirkbride is open for a regular day of good ol’ fashioned in-person learning.

05/07/2026

Tomorrow, Friday, May 8th is an early dismissal day and a $1 Dress Down Day. Students will be dismissed at 12:30.

04/15/2026

Spring is here, and that means it’s time to take the Philly School Experience Survey, the annual survey for all Philly public school parents and guardians!

Your thoughtful responses on this year’s survey will help us to improve communication with families and track our progress in improving school safety and climate.

The parent survey is completely anonymous, and you do not need a student ID number to take the survey. Just go to the link below, select your student’s grade level and school, and get started! The survey will take about 5-10 minutes, and you can enter a raffle for a $25 gift card at the end.

Click here to take the parent/guardian survey now!
https://prdwebapps2.philasd.org/parentsurvey/

This is how our school name appears in the survey’s dropdown list:
Kirkbride, Eliza B. School
The survey is translated into multiple languages.

We only need your household to take the survey one time for our school, even if you have multiple students here. You can take the survey with your oldest student at our school in mind.

With your help, we can reach our goal of 15% parent and guardian participation to ensure that your voices are heard!

04/14/2026

This Friday, April 17th, is an early dismissal day. Please pick your student up at 12:30.

Kirkbride will also be celebrating Autism Awareness Month on Friday, April 17 by wearing BLUE. We will have a FREE dress down day to celebrate!

04/07/2026

Families:

Unfortunately the construction on the mini-pitch is still in process. We will be using our alternate dismissal procedures again this week, until the construction is complete.

Thank you for your patience and flexibility.

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Alternate Admission and Dismissal Procedures for Week of March 23

Monday March 23: Business as usual.

Tuesday - Friday (March 24-27) will use the following procedures:

Admissions:

We will use the inclement weather admissions for grades 1-8. The school yard will be blocked off, students can enter through the 7th Street door.

Grades 1-6: line up in the gym
Grades 7 and 8: in the lunchrooms

Dismissal:

Kindergarten will dismiss students at 3:20 normally at the Main entrance (Dickinson side). ALL parents will line up on the right side.

Grades 1-3 will be dismissed from the main entrance on Dickinson street on a staggered schedule.

Grade 1: 3:25
Grade 2: 3:30
Grade 3: 3:35

Grades 4-8 will be dismissed from the 7th street door on a staggered schedule.

Grade 8: 3:15 pm
Grade 7: 3:20 pm
Grade 6: 3:25 pm
Grade 5: 3:30 pm
Grade 4: 3:35 pm

You can view these digitally here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wfqYrhbxZZVdcpMRzmFVZrhodqxYW9lHUQbT6sD0z08/edit?usp=sharing

04/07/2026

April calendars were distributed and can be found here in multiple languages:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15MolQN3exkgkrwRElhG5EkoBaUS_fvKq?usp=drive_link