Millbrook Police Department
Monday, August 10, 2026, will be the first day back to school for students here in Millbrook and across Elmore County. There will be more traffic on the roadways beginning that morning, as school busses, parents transporting children and students licensed to drive will be making their way to school. The Millbrook Police Department will have extra officers working during both the morning and evening school traffic hours to help our motoring public with the transition into school traffic. The City of Millbrook employs three crossing guards, who are stationed at the entrance to Stanhope Elmore High School, at Main Street and Hampton Oaks, Main Street and Chapman Road, as well as the entrance of Coosada Elementary, on Airport Road. Crossing Guards will be directing traffic at each location during school traffic hours, in both the morning and afternoon hours throughout the school year. Police officers will be closely monitoring school traffic, particularly near these intersections to ensure that motorist is complying with the crossing guards, traffic control devices and state traffic laws.
A long time first day of school tradition will continue Monday, as the Millbrook Police Department will provide an escort for the “Senior Class Lead Out”. The Stanhope Elmore senior class will meet at Village Green Park at 7:00 a.m. There will be a safety briefing at 7:15 a.m. and the senior class will depart for the High School promptly at 7:30 a.m. Also, parents and students at Stanhope need to be aware that traffic coming into Stanhope will flow differently than it has in the past. All traffic entering school will be required to stay to the right as they enter the school’s campus. The only exception will be school busses, which will veer to the left as they enter, continuing past the gym and off-loading and loading behind the school buildings. Parents dropping off students and students who will be driving are asked to leave early, so that everyone has time to make the transition and not be hurried…