Is transportation available?

With fuel on the rise, everyone needs to save a little money. You will be glad to know that Mason City, Lakota, and Kings Local School districts all currently bus students in kindergarten through grade 8 to LBA. If you are interested in this free service, please contact the local public school transportation office of the district in which you live. Additionally, any family using district bus services will need to complete a Parent Authorization for Public School Transportation form, which is available at our website under “Resources” then “Other Forms”. This form is required before we will release students to buses in the afternoon. You must include the students afternoon bus number, which will be provided by the district transportation office. The form should be submitted to the school office no later than August 14 if you want your child to ride the bus on the first day of school.

The district transportation office phone numbers are provided for your convenience:

Mason City: 398-5646

Lakota Local: 755-5821

Kings Local: 398-8050

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Do you provide lunches?

LBA utilizes  Renaissance Learning’s Accelerated Reader (AR) and Star Early Literacy programs which enrich our students’ reading experience. Accelerated Reader is an incentive program to encourage students to read outside of the classroom. It is an exciting and challenging program that also provides both teachers and parents with individual diagnostic reports through computer-based assessments that identify a student’s zone of proximal development (reading level range). The Early Literacy portion of the program is especially designed to assess young children’s emerging reading skills including phonemic awareness and vocabulary. This is not a reading textbook and does not replace daily reading instruction in the classroom.