Where YOUR Character Counts!
Save the Date: Summer Block Party
July 31st 9:45am-12 noon
Visit with us this summer and get connected with community resources available to your family. Vendors include:
- SJC Fire Rescue & Sheriff’s Office
- SJCPLS Book Mobile
- SJCSD Transportation
- Vision is Priceless & Fresh Heads
- OMES PTO & Extended Day
- Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts
- Police Athletic League & Wolfson’s
Enjoy music with DJ Mike and come and meet our new Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Asplen, in person!
Now Enrolling: Kindergarten Students
Now enrolling NEW students for the 2025-2026 school year! Enroll your Kindergartener TODAY!
Click here to enroll a new student.
Our VPK Program is FULL. Please call us at 904-547-8440 if you are interested in our waitlist.
For all of our current Manatees returning next school year, please complete your Returning Student Verification (emailed last April) TODAY!
Earn your Ticket to the Party and Prevent the "Summer Slide"
Complete YOUR Summer Passport to Learning
Click on the Summer Passport for YOUR grade below:
Summer Passport to Learning Future Kindergarteners
Summer Passport to Learning Future 1st Graders
2025-2026 Meet-the-Teacher Information
Save-the-date for the 2025-2026 Meet-the-Teacher Event! We can’t wait to meet our Manatee family for next school year. See below and mark your calendars!
- Pre-K: Friday, August 8th 9-10am
- Kindergarten: Thursday, August 7th 4-5:30pm
- 1st Grade: Thursday, August 7th 5:30-6:30pm
- 2nd Grade: Thursday, August 7th 5:30-6:30pm
- 3rd Grade: Friday, August 8th 11-12 noon
- 4th Grade: Friday, August 8th 10-11am
- 5th Grade: Friday, August 8th 9-10am
- MASC ESE: Thursday, August 7th 5:30-6:30pm
The 2025-2026 SSYRA Book List is HERE!
2025-2026 School Supply Lists and
Master Calendar
A la escuela de Otis A. Mason, se habla espanol. Si necessitas hablar con un membiero de este escuela en espanol, llamanos, por favor, a 904-547-8440.
Core Values
Our Mission
At Mason Elementary, we believe student success is fostered by a continuous commitment to improvement, which ensures well-rounded and motivated learners. We do this by maintaining a safe and dynamic learning environment, promoting high expectations for all students, nurturing determination, developing personal relationships, and involving our community.
Our Vision
The “Mason Way” is one that nurtures a passion in every child for personal success, good character, and a desire to learn, explore, and better themselves as they grow to be responsible members of our community.
Schedule
School Information:
M-F 7:55am–3:45pm
Main Office: (904) 547-8440
Clinic: (904) 547-8444
Registration: (904) 547-8436
School Hours:
- Arrival – 8:00am
- Classes Begin –8:25am
- Dismissal –
- 2:45pm – Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri
- 1:45pm – Wed (Early Release)
Policies & Procedures
Attendance & Tardies
Attendance is extremely important for students to be successful at our school. It is also important that students arrive at school on time, and ready to learn! Parents are encouraged to utilize school bus transportation. Daily drop off begins at 8:00am. Families should utilize the parent drop off line and remain in the car until school staff are outside to welcome students for the day (after 8 am). If your child arrives after 8:25am, you will need to come inside the school to sign them in.
Absences from School
If your child is absent from school, a parent/guardian must turn in a written signed note or a doctor’s note within 48 hours for the absence to be considered excused, upon the students return to school. Phone calls will not be accepted. We appreciate your support.
Early Dismissal & Dismissal Changes
- For the safety of all students, children may not be checked out of school after 2:15pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday and 1:15pm on Wednesday.
- If you need to change the way your child goes home in the afternoon or for an early dismissal, please complete our Dismissal Change Request Form. Handwritten notes are no longer accepted.
- Please Note: Early Dismissals – We do not send children to the front office until you have arrived and shown your photo ID to the front office staff. Dismissal Changes – Can only be accepted before 2:10pm (1:10pm on Wednesdays).
- We cannot accept phone calls for those changes. Changes in afternoon transportation should only be for emergency situations. Thank you for your understanding.
School News & Events
Support Our School
Join Otis Mason PTO! It’s a new school year, join us! JOIN HERE!
Plan for upcoming projects and activities with PTO. If you have any questions, please email us!
Mason Manatee Memo for Monthly School News & Events:
Head Start
St. Johns County School District Head Start provides a free pre-school program and comprehensive health and social services to eligible three- and four-year-old children and their families living in St. Johns County. Head Start is for income eligible families, proof of income is required.
School District News
Instructional Materials Review - K-12 Health and Physical Education
Instructional Materials Review - K-12 English Language Arts
FL Dept. of Health Extended Hours
FortifyFL
School Access
Important Dates from the Transportation Department
Summer BreakSpot Free Meals for Kids & Teens
2025-2026 Bus Schedules
