Welcome! We are excited that your family will be joining our community. We hope this information will help your transition to The Hudson School.
All THS students complete summer reading and assignments before the start of school. Summer reading bags are available to new students in June for pickup by appointment or if they are coming in for assessments.
In July, you will receive a hard copy packet in the mail with an Openings and Closings calendar, as well as a few needed forms for the start of school.
Most of the critical information we need will be available on your FACTS Family Portal under webforms. We will send out instructions on how to provide medical information and demographic updates, as well as provide links to order THS clothing, registration for individual music lessons, and anything else needed for September.
THS provides all school supplies for students, including a School-owned Chromebook for grades 5-12 and iPads for the Lower School. The only thing students need to bring on the first day is a backpack and a lunch.
Lower school families will attend listening conferences the week before school begins. You'll receive registration information from the Lower School Head in August.
New middle and upper school students are invited to orientation on Wednesday, September 9. This hour-long activity will introduce you to teachers and staff and orient you to basic rules and procedures, as well as the important places in the building.
Upper school students will receive their lockers, Chromebooks, and any needed accounts for the first day of school.
Most school communications will come through your FACTS- Family Portal account. In August, you will receive sign-in information through the primary email that you provided on your application. You can update contact information and see trimester grades/narratives through FACTS. Once school begins, you will also be able to see your child's schedule. This is the school’s digital library for documents and links that you will find useful throughout the year, such as: Anticipated Absence Form, Lunch Orders, and Calendar information. There is a dashboard for easy access to these documents.
FACTS is also how we send alerts when there is a snow day or local emergency. It is very important that your contact information is accurate.
Every Sunday, we send out an All-School Newsletter with announcements/events for the upcoming week and reminders about other upcoming events.
The most accurate calendar will always be the online events calendar. We also have an Openings and Closings Calendar.
Lower School: Doors open for Lower School students at 8:10. Early dropoff is available by pre-arrangement starting at 7:30. Preschool-4 are marked tardy if they arrive at the classroom after 8:25. Dismissal for full-day students is at 3:15. The preschool morning program ends at 11:45. Extended Day students must be picked up by 6:00 PM.
Middle School: Doors open for Middle School students at 7:50. Grades 5-8 must be in homeroom before 8:15. Afternoon homeroom for middle school ends at 3:25. After-school activities run from September-May, M-F, from 3:30-4:10 or 5:00. A sign-up form for Fall activities will go out via email in August or early September and again for Spring activities in January.
Upper School: Doors open for Upper School students at 7:30. Students are marked tardy if they arrive at school after 8:15. Upper School students may leave after their last class of the day.
Students in grades 5-12 should complete the Anticipated Absence Form | PDF 109KB if they know they will be out in advance. This is designed to give students ownership and responsibility in communicating with teachers about upcoming absences.
If you need to inform us of an unanticipated absence, early dismissal, or late arrival, please email or call the main office at 201-659-8335. Parents are contacted by 9:00 am if we have not received any notification.
The Hudson School encourages families to provide students with a healthy bagged lunch from home each day. However, if you wish to order your child lunch, we have set up service with the following lunch providers.
Students can order through Alessio's Cafe or Catering Solutions.
All students who commute through NJ Transit are eligible for student rates. Pick up a carbon copy discount form at your local station, and we will validate it at school. If you are commuting from NYC, we can provide you with a student MetroCard.
Many school districts in NJ participate in a state transportation reimbursement program, which provides families with roughly $800 per student each year toward their transportation costs.
Jersey City prefers to use its own form. Jersey City residents must live 1.5 miles (lower/middle school) or 2 miles (upper school) from The Hudson School to be eligible for reimbursement.
To submit, please print/complete the form and return it to The Hudson School’s main office to submit to your home district on your behalf. Reimbursement forms are only considered by the BOE if they have funds left to allocate, so it is important that you submit this as early as possible. Submit your B6T form here.
Below is a list of participating counties:
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The following forms are for use by parents to inform the school nurse of important medical information about their child:
If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to email the nurse
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