District & School Policies

Carnegie Middle School does not allow or accept food deliveries from any delivery services, such as restaurants,  Doordash, GrubHub, Uber Eats or any other vendor delivery service-  

All such deliveries will be refused. 

Carnegie Middle School will not be responsible for any cost or loss of food associated with food deliveries.

FREE breakfast and lunch are available to ALL students. Breakfast is available in the cafeteria from 7:30-7:55.  Lunch is available for pick up in the cafeteria during your scheduled lunchtime.

Parents/legal guardians may deliver food to the front office for their student only..

On occasion a parent may feel the need to visit their child's class(es). Please be advised that Carnegie's parent visitation policy requires the parent to request a visit 24 hours in advance. Once the teacher(s) have been advised of your visit, you will receive a phone call confirming your appointment. Parents should check in at the front office and have a short orientation with one of the administration (going over the rules about classroom expectations). At the conclusion of your visit, please check out at the front office and, at the parent's request, you may desire to debrief with one of the administration. 

Carnegie follows the SJUSD Board Policy #1250

All of the Carnegie rules are reviewed in Homeroom classes. Students are expected to know the school rules and follow them. A copy of the rules is provided on the website under "School Rules." Please refer to this when looking for school policies.

We recommend families use the Q Parent Connection (parent portal) for ALL attendance needs.

If a student has an absence that needs to be cleared, or is unable to attend a school day or a class period, please notify Carnegie by one of these methods:

Please follow these guidelines to clear your student's absences-

 1 - Log in to the Q Parent Connection (parent portal) and click on Report Absence in the upper right corner.  Complete the required fields and be sure to click on SUBMIT to transmit the information to our Attendance Office. 

 2 - Send an email to the Attendance Office at carnegieabsence@sanjuan.edu

 3 - Phone Carnegie's 24-hour Attendance Line at (916) 971-7853, extension 1 and provide the following information: student's full name, your relationship to the student, date(s) of the absence(s), and the reason for the absence.  

For early dismissals, please come into the main office to request an early dismissal for your student.  Your student will need to be signed out by the person that is picking them up, for any reason.  The person picking your student up MUST be on the student's contact list with the school, unless prearranged with staff.  Contacts can be added through the Parent Portal or by coming into the office and requesting the office staff add them. 

For the safety of all students the office cannot take early dismissal requests by phone, except in cases of emergency.  If an early dismissal MUST be phoned in, please call when you are no more than 5 minutes away so your student will not miss valuable classroom time. 

If possible, please advise your student before school that you will be picking them up early and what time you will be here, especially if you will be picking them up during their lunchtime.  If you need to pick your student up during their lunchtime, it will typically take much longer than if they are in their scheduled classroom. 

Please plan accordingly and allow plenty of time for early dismissals.