How To Register In Kindergarten Atlanta

Kindergarten Registration

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Welcome to kindergarten and to Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)! Our goal is to help you lot feel comfortable throughout the registration procedure.

For information about registration for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year, please contact your zoned school directly. Enter your address in the boundary locator to determine the name of your zoned school. If you lot already know your zoned schoolhouse, then you can find your school'southward website past visiting our Schools and Centers Directory for contact information.

Families who need linguistic communication support may contact the following central office registrars:

العربية (Arabic): Belsam Tubia at [email protected]
فارسی (Farsi): Sima Navidi at [electronic mail protected]
한국어 (Korean): Carlin Kim at [email protected]
Español (Spanish): Miriam Dubon at [email protected]
اردو (Urdu): Farah Rana at [email protected]

For General Registration Questions, contact Patty Durish at 703-204-6734 or send an east-mail to [email protected]. A staff fellow member will contact you within ii business concern days to assistance you.

5 Steps to Register Your Student

Parents of students entering kindergarten should follow the instructions on this page to complete the 5-stride procedure for student enrollment.

Our full-day kindergarten programs are housed in our uncomplicated schools, which host kindergarten orientations, typically in the spring. Check your local school website for specific details. Find your local school past entering your address in the FCPS Boundary Locator.

Military Families

Military families volition register using the 5-step process below; however, see Military Families: Planning your Arrival to Fairfax County for additional educatee registration information to help with the transition.

five-Step Registration Procedure - Written Instructions

STEP 1: Determine Eligibility

2 factors determine a student's eligibility to enroll in FCPS: residency and age.

Residency

Children must be living with a parent and residing in Fairfax County.

Historic period

A child may enter kindergarten if he or she turns five on or earlier September 30 of the year he or she enters schoolhouse.

This historic period requirement also applies to students who transfer from other school districts after the showtime of the school year.

The age requirement is set past Virginia law, and FCPS is not able to make exceptions.

Is kindergarten mandatory?

Virginia police force states that parents must ensure a child attends school, if he or she volition be five years old on or before September 30.

Notwithstanding, if, in your stance as a parent, your child is non mentally, physically, or emotionally prepared to attend school, he or she may be exempted for that year. You will need to notify your local school if you lot do not want your child to nourish kindergarten until the following year.

One time a student turns vi, school attendance is mandatory. Grade placement (either kindergarten or first course) will be determined at the fourth dimension of enrollment with consideration for factors such as age, academic records, and school readiness.

Planning to home school your kindergartner?

See Home Educational activity for the option for abode schooling your kid.

Step 2: Where to Register

Kindergarten students are registered at the local schoolhouse.

Find your local school by using the FCPS Purlieus Locator. School contact information is listed in the Schools Directory.

Families who demand language assist may contact the closest Student Registration Welcome Center:

Dunn Loring Eye (cardinal Fairfax) , 703-204-6740
Lake Anne/Reston Center (northwest Fairfax), 703-668-0690
South County Center, 703-742-4900

At FCPS Educatee Registration Welcome Centers, you can ask questions and request information about enrollment in near languages. At the centers, professionals may assess your student's English language skill and/or educational level. These assessments tin provide valuable data to the local school and support your kid's instructional needs.

Special Registration Situations

Depending on circumstances (nonparent registrations, divorced or separated parents, homelessness, foster care and strange exchange students), you volition register at either the local school or a Pupil Registration Welcome Center. Please see Special Registration Situations.

Step3: Gather Documents

Parents registering their children must provide several documents including proof of residency in Fairfax Canton, child's nascence certificate, parent's government issued identification, child'south health information, and child'due south immunizations.

See General Registration Documents (link below) for complete information regarding necessary documentation.

Delight bring the registration documents to your engagement with a registrar (meet Step 5).

General Registration Documents

STEP 4: Fill Out Forms

A parent will need to make full out a Pre-Kindergarten Experience Form and the packet of Full general Registration Forms for each child beingness registered. (Links to forms below.)

For the General Registration Forms, be certain to select the Enrollment Forms Bundle selection to admission all the necessary forms at in one case. Or pick upwards printed forms at the closest Educatee Registration Welcome Center or the local schoolhouse office. For local school pick upward, exist sure to telephone call alee so the forms can exist set for you when you arrive.

Because we do not offer online registration, you will demand to download the forms to a computer, fill them out on the figurer and print them. Or you can print the forms and fill them out by mitt.

Please bring the completed registration forms to your engagement with a registrar (see Step v).

STEP 5: Make an appointment

Please call alee for a registration appointment at a local school (Boundary Locator and Schools Directory) or a Student Registration Welcome Center.

The student and at to the lowest degree one parent must be nowadays for the registration appointment at a school or a Student Registration Welcome Centre.

Please try to get in with your registration documents and completed registration forms.

Questions? Our registrars at local schools or at Student Registration Welcome Centers are available to aid families and students at whatever time during the registration procedure.

We expect forrad to partnering with y'all to support your child's educational journey in FCPS.

Student Transfers

A student is expected to attend the schoolhouse that serves his or her omnipresence area. Nonetheless, student transfer information is bachelor if a parent would like to transfer a student from a base school to some other schoolhouse inside FCPS. Transfer requests are considered for very specific reasons as outlined in FCPS School Board Regulation 2230.

You must first exist registered at a neighborhood schoolhouse before submitting a request for student transfer.

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