Emergency Procedures

The safety of our students and staff is our number one priority. The information below will assist parents and families in the event of an emergency. Please do not come to the school unless you are told to do so. This helps keep everyone—your child, other students, and staff—safe.

To report an emergency at one of our schools or facilities, first call 911, then report it to our safety and security office at 206-631-7600.

Weather or Emergency Closures

Communication

In the event of a snowstorm, windstorm, earthquake, threat to campus or other emergency event, Highline Public Schools will implement safety procedures and may change school start or dismissal times for student safety. 

Here are the ways we communicate emergency information:

• Email notifications. Please provide the school with your current email address or update it in ParentVUE.
• Automated phone calls and text messages. Please provide your school with current telephone numbers to reach you and other emergency contacts or update this information in ParentVUE. 
• Announcements on district and school websites.
• Announcements on social media. Please follow us on Facebook.
• Announcements on TV and radio. 

What to Expect

Here is a list of the type of schedule changes you can expect during weather-related events or other emergencies. Making a decision about weather-related school closures is always difficult. We take the decision-making process very seriously. Learn more about how we make decisions on changing the school schedule. 

Learn more about safety procedures, such as lockdown, shelter-in-place, and evacuation, and in what types of emergencies they are used.

This Family Communication Chart (coming soon) illustrates what modes of communication we use during a threat to campus, depending on the situation.