Garden City Public Schools To Celebrate Walk to School Day On Wednesday
Garden City Public Schools will join schools from around the nation to celebrate Walk to School Day on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. Walk to School Day encourages healthy habits, heightens awareness of traffic safety, draws attention to environmental concerns around schools, and is a great way to build local momentum for Safe Routes to Schools.
Schools are planning events that will focus on walking to school, or for the students that are bused, walking at school. The events will take place at various times with students, parents, staff members, and community leaders taking part in the walks.
- Walk to School Day events raise awareness of the need to create safer routes for walking and bicycling and emphasize the importance of issues such as increasing physical activity among children, pedestrian safety, and traffic congestion. The events build connections between families, schools and the broader community.
There will be planned Walk to School Day activities at a number of schools.
Jennie Barker Elementary School will have Garden City High School wrestlers and volleyball players walk with the students in the morning to kick-off the day.
Edith Scheuerman Elementary School will start at the west Dillons and walk to the school. The walk will start at around 7:45 a.m. at Dillons and should arrive at the school at around 8:00 a.m.
Gertrude Walker Elementary School staff will be at Scout Park will start walking at 7:45 a.m. Parents can walk with their child or drop them off by 7:40 a.m.
Jennie Wilson Elementary School will start at 7:30 a.m. at the former Westlake Hardware parking lot and will have groups going every 5-15 minutes. They will wrap-up at 8:10 a.m.
Georgia Matthews Elementary School will walk the tally trail around by the school before school starts that morning.
Florence Wilson Elementary School will hold the walking event on Friday, October 10 due another scheduled event on Wednesday morning.
