Volunteers play an essential role here in the Walton County School District. Our schools would not be able to operate as smoothly without each and every person serving in our facilities. We believe that when schools, families and the community work together to support learning, everyone benefits. We appreciate your interest in our schools and look forward to serving with you. 

The Walton County School District does not require everyone who visits a school to complete the volunteer training process, so to help differentiate between a school visitor, volunteer and chaperone we have created brief descriptions below.

A school volunteer is a non-paid individual who serves in any auxiliary capacity under the direction and supervision of school personnel. A volunteer is one who performs any essential duties that an employee could perform such as, but not limited to, making copies, filing, escorting students, working with extracurricular activity groups or assisting with lunch duty, media center and front office tasks. Any person who leads or assists student groups or students other than their own in school or extracurricular programs is considered a volunteer. Volunteers will typically serve in this capacity multiple times throughout the school year. 

 

A chaperone is any non-school personnel who attends an off-campus school activity, whether as a parent or official chaperone.