Neighborhood Connections

In case of any emergency:

• Notify the switchboard (202-939-8800) or Main Office (202-939-8848)
  In any case of emergency the Main Office will make sure that the Division Director has been notified of the situation, and vice versa.
• Give your name, location, and the nature of the emergency.
• If after hours, call Emergency 2-Way Radio (on-campus ext 8812 or off-campus 202-939-8812), after-hours security (202-497-5488), or Director of Finance & Operations Trey Holloway (202-939-8821).

Periodically, Head of School Marjo Talbott will remind our community about Maret's Emergency Guidelines. PLEASE BE ASSURED that our comprehensive crisis management plan remains in place, and our Emergency Guidelines continue to be in line with recommendations from FEMA, the Red Cross, NAIS, phone companies, security firms, and other federal and DC Government agencies.

It IS important that we model good and safe behavior for our children.

Our neighbors are asked to be tolerant of our pick-up and drop-off lines and we, in turn, try to make these periods as smooth as possible.

In addition to getting drivers through car line as efficiently as possible, safety is our top priority. To this end, we would like to remind families and faculty to be both patient and polite when driving to and on campus. Please be mindful of your speed; the speed limit is:

• 20 mph or less in the neighborhood,
• 15 mph starting on the 3100 block of Cathedral Avenue and heading towards campus during school hours,
• 10 mph on campus.

And please obey the officer directing traffic, avoid cell phone use, and watch for students crossing the driveway.

Do not park on or queue on Cathedral Avenue to wait for your child at drop-off and pick-up times. This creates a significant risk to the child, impedes the flow of rush hour traffic, and is in violation of our neighbor agreement. All pedestrians must cross Cathedral Avenue and Woodley Road only at designated crosswalks.

If you have any questions, please call the Main Office at 202-939-8848.

Please Read the following carefully

If you are the parent/guardian of an Upper School student who drives on campus, or have adults other than Maret parents/guardians drop off or pick up your child, please also share the following information with them.

• During drop-off and pick-up times, no left turns onto campus are allowed. Also during this time, left turns off of campus are permitted only at the western exit by the Kindergarten Cottage.
• Always follow the directions of the traffic personnel during drop-off and pick-up.
• We would like all of our LOWER SCHOOL students to arrive on campus by 8:00 a.m. The doors will be open to the building at 7:45 a.m.
• Those picking up LOWER SCHOOL students must have yellow signs displayed in their front windshield to get onto campus for dismissal (2:50 p.m. on M, T, Th, & F; 1:40 p.m. on Wed). If you need extra copies of these signs, please email Chris Appleby at cappleby@maret.org.
• Those picking up MIDDLE SCHOOL students are not permitted on campus until 3:00 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday or 1:55 p.m. on Wednesday. Those picking up UPPER SCHOOL students, given that class schedules vary, are not permitted on campus until 3:10 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, 3:15 p.m. on Monday and Friday, and 1:50 p.m. on Wednesday. If you arrive prior to that, you will be asked to come back later so that you do not get mixed up in the Lower School car line. You are also not allowed to wait across the street on Cathedral Avenue—it causes problems for our immediate neighbors. If you need to pick up a MIDDLE or UPPER SCHOOL student earlier, you should plan to pick them up on Garfield Street.
• Please do not leave your car, even for a minute, on the front drive or on Cathedral Avenue during car line.
• If you are dropping off students at the Activities Building (the Middle School), please do not block the intersection on the driveway in front of the AB Building. If you are going straight down the driveway, stop to let off your child along the curb so that others can circle around toward the Swiss Embassy behind you. If you are turning left to exit the school by the Swiss Embassy, pull as far forward as you can so other cars can pull in behind you.

Please keep Cathedral Avenue passable during pick-up. To help ensure this:

• During drop-off and pick-up times, no left turns onto campus are allowed. Also during this time, left turns off of campus are permitted only at the western exit by the Kindergarten Cottage.
• Those picking up LOWER SCHOOL students, please arrive to campus promptly. If you arrive late, you risk getting caught up in the Middle/Upper School line. Once Middle/Upper School cars begin to back up onto Cathedral Avenue, drivers will be asked to form a second line on the driveway until the Middle Schoolers begin to exit and you will not be able to pass through at all.
• Those picking up MIDDLE/UPPER SCHOOLERS, please plan your arrival for after Lower School car line has finished.
• When leaving campus during heavy traffic, we strongly recommend that you plan to go straight up Woodley or that you turn left onto Cathedral from the western gate by the Kindergarten Cottage. Turning right onto Cathedral puts you back into the car line and causes gridlock.
• Alleyway cut-throughs (such as Cortland at Cathedral directly in front of the School) MUST NOT be used.

• If you are visiting campus, there are a few visitor spaces across from the kindergarten cottage. If you do not see an open visitor space, you should park off campus (but not on Cathedral Avenue in front of the school). Please follow any instructions from Security or Maret employees when parking on campus.
• All other parking spaces are reserved for faculty and students, and cars without faculty stickers may be towed. There is no parking on the circle driveway during the academic day, which is a designated fire lane and must be kept clear.

Metrorail
Maret encourages faculty and older students to use Metrorail services. The School is approximately a 12-minute walk from the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metrorail stop on the Red Line. DC resident students may be eligible for a metro student discount card. Virginia & Maryland students may also be eligible for a commuting stipend. Please see Ms. Zobay for details.

Maret Shuttle
Maret runs a shuttle each morning at 7:40am and 7:50am from the Woodley Park metro for students and faculty.

Metrobus
D.C. Metrobus #96 and X3 stop in front of Maret School on Cathedral Avenue.

Commuter Connection
Learn more about Commuter Connection

• Upper school students who drive must get a parking decal and fill out appropriate vehicle information. There is no parking on Cathedral Avenue between Woodley Road and 29th Street and no parking on Hawthorne Street or Garfield Terrace. UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS may not park on campus at any time before 4:00 p.m. on a school day, including during exams, except in limited, pre-assigned designated spaces.
• Alleyway cut-throughs (such as Cortland at Cathedral directly in front of the School) SHOULD NOT be used.
• If we learn that students are parking in areas where they are not supposed to park, we will have them move their cars and instruct them not to park in those locations in the future. Students typically receive a warning for a first violation and increasingly severe punishments, such as limited off-campus privileges, for repeat violations; however, multiple violations could lead to suspension.