Rio FAQs

Rio's daily schedule is available on the RDM School website under the About Us section. Follow this link for the current schedule.

The school calendar is posted on the PVUSD website.

Rio Del Mar's website is riodelmar.pvusd.net

Students can be dropped off from 7:15am until 8:50am, when the bell goes. Students will not be supervised before 7:15am.

All grades gets out at 2:15pm Monday-Thursday, and at 12:15pm on Fridays.

Drop-off

Car drop-off - pull carefully into the parking lot using both lanes until the merge point at the curve. Please do not stop on the ramp, as this blocks access for the buses. Students must be dropped off at the yellow curb, and must be able to get out of the car by themselves on the right hand-side of your vehicle.

Parking lot - please do not park in any spots marked STAFF, or Auction Winner parking spots.

Park drop-off - you can drop your student off in the Rio Del Mar Playground, they will walk up into school by themselves.

Bikes - there is one bike parking area in the RDM Playground, and another behind the cafeteria. Park bikes in the direction you enter from. Bikes should not be ridden through the parking lot, or pushed along the sidewalk in front of school.

Pick-up

Please make sure your child know how they are getting home. If arrangements change during the day, please call the school office and they will get a message to your child.

Car pick-up - pull carefully into the parking lot using both lanes until the merge point at the curve. Please do not stop on the ramp, as this blocks access for the buses. Students must be picked up at the yellow curb, and must be able to get into their car by themselves on the right hand-side of your vehicle. If your child needs help buckling up, please consider meeting them in the playground instead.

Once you reach the curb area, a teacher will ask you which student(s) you are collecting and will radio up to the quad where the students are waiting. Your student will then walk down to meet you.

Park pick-up - you can pick your student up in the Rio Del Mar Playground, they will walk down from school by themselves.

If your child is sick and will be missing school please contact the school office to inform them of your child's absence. Call (831) 728-7838.

You can also email your child's teacher to let them know, but for the absence to be marked as sickness you must contact the office.

If you have an appointment, such as a doctors or dentist, during the school day, you should come up to the school office to collect your child. You will need to sign them out and hand a form in to the office. The office will call your child down for you.

All PVUSD students are offered one FREE breakfast and lunch every school day. No meal applications are needed.

If your child wants breakfast or lunch they can visit the cafeteria during their allocated recess/lunch times to collect food.

More information is available at pvusdschoolfood.net.

PVUSD bus services are provided to students for FREE, but students need a bus pass to ride the bus.

Bus passes applications are available through the district, or once school begins, families can also get their bus pass from the school office.

You will find bus route information here.

Each year Rio gets funding from PVUSD to run the school. The amount of funding depends on the number of students enrolled. (Funding for teachers and staff is separate).

We also get funding for some projects from specific grants. For example, our art teacher (two-days) is funded through Prop 28 money.

The rest of the funding comes from the RDMPA.

In 2023-2024, Rio was given $21,000 from PVUSD. The RDMPA budgeted $131,000 to spend.

Rio Minders is the weekly e-newsletter sent to parents from the school principal, Ms Green. It goes out at 5:00pm on Sunday evenings, via text and email.

The newsletter contains everything families need to know about what is going on at school.

If you are not receiving the newsletter please contact the school office to make sure your contact details are entered onto the mailing list.

There are approximately 420 students enrolled at Rio,