Welcome New Families!

• School Resources: Calendar, directory, resource documents, emergency forms
• Student Resources: Grades, class schedules, attendance, medical info
• Family Resources: Family profile preferences, tuition and incidental payments, Tuition Affordability application

Go to FACTS Family Portal login

FACTS Family Portal Information Guide

The Rockbridge Academy uniform and grooming guidelines reflect a standard of professional learning and modesty. The dress code requirements are outlined HERE, in the Parent/Student Handbook 2024-2025 (coming soon), and on the main website. All uniform items must be purchased through Lands' End or through the uniform exchange, except where noted. 

We strongly encourage permanently labeling all items your children will wear and bring to school, including all clothing, lunch bags, water bottles, instruments, Bibles, etc. Each year, literally hundreds of dollars worth of items end up in the school’s lost and found bin. Parents and students, please check lost and found bins regularly.

Purchase online from Lands' End:

Rockbridge Academy's Uniformee site has gently used uniforms for sale!
Check out this FAQ document for answers to your questions or email uniformswap@rockbridge.org.
 

Take a look anytime to see what we have in inventory. After ordering items through the site, you will receive an email to let you know when they are ready for pickup at school. Items are returnable, and you will not be billed until we are sure your items fit!  Need help figuring out sizing or what you need for your child? Come try on clothes and get individual help. Sign-ups for try-on days are coming soon.

Spirit Wear for Spirit Days! New students use the code: GEAR to receive 20% off when you spend $75 or more. 
 

The Rockbridge Academy School Store offers all sorts of Rockbridge Academy products, including clothing, drinkware, bags, decals, and accessories. Students may wear spirit wear on Spirit Days when we show our school spirit and support our athletics teams! Go Scots!

Junior Kindergarten

The state of Maryland requires that we have these forms on file for your child by the first day of school for him/her to attend. We ask that they be in by August 5, 2024.

The Emergency Form

The Health Inventory Forms

If needed, the Medication Authorization Form

The Immunization Certificate

Lead Testing Certificate

K-12 Health Documents and Emergency Forms

If you haven’t done so already, please log into the FACTS Family Portal to verify your Family Demographics and Annual Emergency information under Web Forms by August 5th.

In order to administer prescription or even over-the-counter medication at school, the parents/guardians and your family physician must complete a consent form each school year. Over-The-Counter medicines include ibuprofen or acetaminophen. Prescription Medications include EpiPen®, inhalers, or insulin. 
 

Medication Permission Form

Athletics

All student-athletes participating in any Rockbridge athletic program must submit a current physical (dated within 12 months of the sports season) by August 5th. 

Health History and Physical Examination Form

Be sure to submit your student's elective preferences by Friday, May 24. Refer to the email from Mrs. Mandy Ball for course descriptions. 

Rising 7th & 8th Grade Elective Preferences Form

Rising 9th—12th Grade Elective Preferences Form

Jr. Kindergarten

Kindergarten

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Grade 6

Grade 7

Grade 8

Grade 9

Grade 10

Grade 11

Grade 12

Electives

Rockbridge Academy has partnered with LLC Lunch and Chick-fil-A Waugh Chapel to provide secure, fast, and easy ways for parents to order, prepay, and manage hot lunch online.

***Your weekly order will be due by the Sunday of that week at 11:59am.  Parents may also order lunches in advance up through the entire school year.***

LLC Lunch ordering:

• Go to https://LLCLunch.com.
• For step-by-step ordering instructions or who to contact with questions, please see the LLC Lunch Ordering Tutorial.
• Select if you want to place an order for a day, week, or month. This will take you to the correct order form where you will place your order.
  Monthly orders receive a 2.5% discount.
• In-school hot lunch will be offered every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of the school year. 

Chick-fil-A ordering:

• Go to https://cfawaughchapel.boonli.com/login (bookmark this page).
• Create your account, using the first time password rock1. You will be prompted to create a unique password later.
• For step-by-step ordering instructions or who to contact with questions, please see the CFA Ordering Tutorial.
• Chick-fil-A will deliver lunch to Rockbridge Academy every Tuesday and Thursday.

Bag Lunch: Students may bring in a packed lunch instead of a pre-ordered hot lunch. 

Snacks: Most children require multiple snacks per day in addition to lunch.  Please send students with healthy snacks to meet your child’s individual hunger level throughout the day. Grammar students may eat snacks at snack time, recess, or other scheduled breaks. Upper school students may eat snacks between classes. 

Water: Adequate hydration is necessary for successful learning. Your child should bring a water bottle to school every day. The Evergreen Campus has several water bottle refill stations for students. Please LABEL ALL water bottles with the student’s name. The bottles do get carried around during the day —from class, to recess, to PE, to lunch, and back again. Students participating in athletics or After the Bell activities after school should plan to refill before practice.

Please note that no glass containers are to be brought to school.

 

Parents will be sent the 2024-2025 Rockbridge Athletics Registration form in July. More information, including dates and registration forms, can be found on the Family Portal.

All Rockbridge athletes are required to have a sports physical completed no more than 12 months before the entire sports season. Sports physicals completed this summer will be good for the entire school year!  Consider scheduling yours now with your family doctor or at a local urgent care clinic. Please email athletics@rockbridge.org if you have any questions.  

Pickup games will be ongoing throughout the summer for Rockbridge students. Come and play with your new teammates and meet some friends.

Athletic Forms

As you know, one of our core values is Parental Partnership, and what makes a partnership grow into a thriving fellowship is active communication.

Please stay up on communication with the school from weekly announcements to volunteering on campus. 

• eSSENTIALS comes out on Tuesdays with weekly announcements and action items. 
• Zipcast is a weekly 10 minute podcast on Rockbridge Academy school events, segments on classical Christian education, parenting help, common questions on education, and even a student submitted joke-of-the-day. Each segment will end with a Scripture meditation.
• Benedictio is the Rockbridge newsletter showcasing events, news, and alumni connections.

We would love to include grandparents and send them the Benedictio newsletter as well. Please send grandparents' contact information to Sonmin Crane, our Communications Coordinator (scrane@rockbridge.org), if you didn't add them as part of enrollment. 

Stay Connected

At Rockbridge Academy, we operate In Loco Parentis, which means our teachers have been given their authority to disciple and train your child with your permission and blessing. Included in our vision statement for parents is that they enjoy the journey of their child's education and grow in knowledge of the classical Christian approach. In fulfillment of these goals, we present opportunities to equip parents along the way. Over the summer, parents can learn what other new classical Christian teachers from across the country come to learn from Rockbridge Academy staff and faculty: how to teach well and inspire the learner. 

Summer Teacher Training and the Best Lessons Series are free to enrolled parents and serve as an insider's look at how our teachers teach and what goes on in the classroom. We encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities to learn from your child's teachers. 

• Get togethers with Mentor Family
• Discover Summer Day Camp
• I Miss Recess and Culture Moments during Summer Academy 
• Summer Teacher Training
• Open Library Hours
• The Best Lessons Series
• Screen Free Challenge

We use the FACTS Family Portal for the school/student information system. Use the login credentials you created upon enrollment. Call Dawn Jeffords, our register and tech coordinator, for any needed assistance, djeffords@rockbridge.org, 410-923-1171 ext. 1009.

Every student must have an Annual Emergency Form—Permissions and Acknowledgments 2024-2025 on file by August 8. The family demographics form and emergency acknowledgment form are in the Family Portal under Web Forms in the main menu. Scroll down to find the emergency form. 

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