Although no campuses in the Lampasas Independent School District were locked down last week during the crisis at Fort Hood, contingency plans were in effect.

Bus pickups were delayed about 30 minutes Thursday, as school officials “got a plan in place,” Superintendent Randy Hoyer said.

A key concern was making provision for elementary age children whose parents themselves were at Fort Hood in a lockdown and unable to pick up their students at school bus stops.

If no one was at a particular stop to receive a child, the elementary student was returned to his respective campus, Hoyer said.

The LISD has three elementary schools, and the plan called for students who were returned to their campuses to be put at one location -- Hanna Springs Elementary -- after 6 p.m. There, students would be fed and taken care of until their parents were able to leave the Fort Hood Army base.

In all, 11 students were returned to their schools, and by 6 p.m., all but one of the children were picked up. By 8 p.m., the last student was picked up -- at Taylor Creek Elementary east of Kempner.

“It had a very minimal effect on us,” the Lampasas superintendent said of developments at Fort Hood.

He complimented the LISD’s transportation department and bus drivers. “They did a really good job,” Hoyer said. “They acted very professionally. All children were delivered home safely.”