HCPS sets schedule for distributing more tablets, computers
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Henrico County Public Schools officials have set the schedule for distribution of laptops and tablets for students. Each student in the system – more than 50,000 in total – will receive a machine to use during the first nine weeks of school, which will be conducted virtually. Middle-school and high-school students receive laptops to keep throughout the year.
Families should expect to receive detailed instructions soon from their individual schools about specific times and places to pick up devices.
Preschool and kindergarten students will receive iPads, while students in grades 1-5 who still need Chromebooks will get them, and rising sixth-graders will get Dell laptops. (Most other middle and high school students still have their HCPS-issued laptops from the 2019-20 school year.)
HCPS also will provide Wi-Fi “hot spots” to households that need internet access, while supplies last.
The weekly distribution schedule will apply mostly to certain grade levels, as well as students who are new to the school division.
Distribution of devices will take place:
• Aug. 10-13 – distribution of Dell laptops to new middle school students. Rising sixth-graders will exchange their HCPS-issued Chromebooks and receive Dell laptops. (This would include newly enrolled middle school students who did not previously have an HCPS-issued device.)
• Aug. 17-20 – distribution of Chromebooks to elementary school students. Rising first-graders will receive Chromebooks, as will all other students in grades 2-5 who still need one.
• Aug. 24-28 – distribution of iPads to pre-K and K students. Preschool and kindergarten students will pick up iPads (and in some cases exchange their Chromebooks issued in the spring).
• Aug. 31-Sept. 4 – remote technology hubs open at all secondary schools. Hubs will be open at all HCPS middle and high schools to complete device distribution (including devices for newly enrolled high school students) and support other student and staff technology issues.
During the spring closure, HCPS middle and high school students used their HCPS-issued laptops, while households with multiple elementary school students may have shared HCPS devices that previously were stored in classrooms.
