Hillwood has been educating children since 1949, and our growing experience continues to help us streamline policies to best benefit students. We also pride ourselves on adapting to the changing lifestyles and work schedules of parents and welcome feedback about our policies throughout the year.

Health and Safety

• If your child is sick and will not be attending school, please call (415) 931-0400 between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m.
• Like most other schools, Hillwood is not allowed to dispense medication to your child. If your child requires medication, please keep him or her home. When the student returns to school, he or she should have a doctor's release.
• Students must go home if they have a temperature of 100°F or higher, are vomiting, or displaying discomfort due to illness.
• If someone else, other than you will be picking up your child, please call us with his or her name. This person should be prepared to show a picture I. D. upon picking up the student.
• Please do not send candy, sweets, and junk food to school. We strongly discourage children from sharing snack foods due to allergies, fairness, and the like.

Contact and Parent-Teacher Conferences

• As soon as your home or work phone numbers change, please notify us immediately, so we can update our directory. This includes cell phones and pagers.
• If you feel the need to speak to your child's teacher, please call between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. We will do our best to make the teacher available to you. You may also make an appointment, before or after school.

Tuition and Fees

• Hillwood is now set up to receive DIRECT DEPOSIT for school tuition. This is our preferred way of receiving payment.
• If you choose to use DIRECT DEPOSIT as your method of payment, please be sure to set up your child's/children's tuition payment account before school starts in September.
• Any tuition that is received after the 4th of each month will have an additional 10% fee added.
• Returned tuition checks include a $20 fee.
• Hillwood is open from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. If you are late in picking up a child, there is a charge of $2.00 per minute for every minute after 4 p.m. (a 4:15 p.m. pick up means a $30.00 payment).
• There is a $20.00 late fee per day after the second tardy (after 9:00 a.m.) each month, unless we have a written excuse.

Student Life

• School birthdays! Please phone (415) 931-0400 to arrange a school party for your child!
• Free dress is the first Friday of each month. Please have your child wear appropriate clothes.
• Please have your child wear tennis or athletic shoes for safety reasons; in basic colors: black, blue green, grey, white, etc., without bright colors or glitter. No dress shoes or boots are allowed.
• Boys' hair MUST BE above collar length, no braids, etc.. And both girls and boys may not dye their hair any unnatural colors.
• If your child needs to borrow a school uniform due to the soiling of their own, please return it to school promptly, laundered and ready for use.
• To order a Hillwood Academic Day School uniform online, view the Dennis Uniform web site. You can also visit Dennis Uniform’s San Francisco store at 590 10th Street in San Francisco. The store number is (415) 864-3401.
• When planning vacations during the school year, please give us advanced notice so that we can plan any appropriate homework for your child.
• Student's schoolwork will be sent home at the end of each month, with occasional packets being combined.