Enrollment Form - All students must complete the New Student Enrollment Form and take to the school when you enroll.
- Four years old on or before October 1 and qualify by income based on State guidelines, OR
- Three or four years old and developmentally delayed.
If your child qualifies for the preschool program, your child will need the following items:
1. Proof of age – Upon enrollment for the first time in any elementary or secondary school, a student or student’s parent shall provide either a certified copy of the student’s birth certificate or other reliable proof of the student’s identity and age and an affidavit of the inability to produce a copy of the birth certificate (HC Policy 09.121).
2. A current Kentucky immunization certification form required by 704 KAR 4:020 shall be on file within (2) two weeks of a student’s enrollment in school.
Military families have 30 days to comply as indicated in the Interstate Commission Compact.
3. The preventive health care exam (704 KAR 4:020) dated within I year prior to initial admission to school and must be on the Preventive Health Care Form.
4. Social Security number is required before entering high school for KEES funding.
5. KRS 156.160 states all children entering at 3, 4, 5, or 6 years of age public preschool and Head Start or public school for the first time to have an eye examination by an optometrist or ophthalmologist no later than January 1 of the school year.
6. Program eligibility information to include one of the following:
a) a completed application for the National School Lunch Program (at-risk eligibility)
b) Admission and Release Committee records which document
eligibility for special education (developmentally delayed).
Kindergarten Requirements
1. Proof of age – Upon enrollment for the first time in any elementary or secondary school, a student or student’s parent shall provide either a certified copy of the student’s birth certificate or other reliable proof of the student’s identity and age and an affidavit of the inability to produce a copy of the birth certificate (HC Policy 09.121).
2. A current Kentucky immunization certification form required by 704 KAR 4:020 shall be on file within (2) two weeks of a student’s enrollment in school.
Military families have 30 days to comply as indicated in the Interstate
Commission Compact.
3. The preventive health care exam (704 KAR 4:020) dated within I year prior initial admission to school and must be on the Preventive Health Care Form.
4. Social Security Number is required before entering high school for KEES funding.
5. KRS 156.160 states all children entering at 3, 4, 5, or 6 years of age public preschool and Head Start or public school for the first time to have an eye examination by an optometrist or ophthalmologist no later than January 1 of the school year.
6. Must be 5 years of age on or before October 1 of the given school year.
7. Effective with the 2010-2011 school year, a dental screening or examination shall be required for five (5) and six (6) year olds enrolling in the school district.
First Time Enrollees in Kentucky Schools
1. Proof of age – Upon enrollment for the first time in any elementary or secondary school, a student or student’s parent shall provide either a certified copy of the student’s birth certificate or other reliable proof of the student’s identity and age and an affidavit of the inability to produce a copy of the birth certificate (HC Policy 09.121).
2. A current Kentucky immunization certification form required by 704 KAR 4:020 shall be on file within (2) two weeks of a student’s enrollment in school.
Military families have 30 days to comply as indicated in the Interstate Commission Compact.
3. The preventive health care exam (704 KAR 4:020) dated within I year prior to initial admission to school and must be on the Preventive Health Care Form.
4. Social Security Number due upon enrollment.
5. KRS 156.160 states all children entering at 3, 4, 5, or 6 years of age public preschool and Head Start or public school for the first time to have an eye examination by an optometrist or ophthalmologist no later than January 1 of the school year.
6. Effective with the 2010-2011 school year, a dental screening or examination shall be required for five (5) and six (6) year olds enrolling in the school district.
Sixth Grade Enrollment Requirements
1. Must have a second preventive health care exam within one year prior to entering 6th grade (first exam was given upon initial admission to Kentucky schools) or within 30 days of enrollment.
2. A Kentucky Immunization Certificate is required within two weeks of enrollment showing all age appropriate vaccines. This includes Tetanus/diphtheria/acellular pertussis (Tdap), meningococcal vaccine, 2nd does of varicella vaccine or physician proof of past varicella disease.
Military families have 30 days to comply as indicated in the Interstate Commission Compact.
*Per Interstate Commission Compact
Students from a household of an active duty service member who are moving into the District shall be enrolled and appropriately placed as quickly as possible based on information provided in the student’s unofficial records pending validation by the official record that the District shall request from the sending school.
Special power of attorney, relative to the guardianship of a child of a military family and executed under applicable law shall be sufficient for the purposes of enrollment and all other actions requiring parental participation and consent. A transitioning child of a military family who is placed in the care of a non-custodial parent or other person standing in loco parentis and living in a jurisdiction other than that of the custodial parent may continue to attend the school in which s/he was enrolled while residing with the custodial parent. |