Kindergarten registration for children who will be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1 is underway, or soon will be, in local school districts.
The Portola Valley and Woodside Elementary school districts also offer a two-year transitional kindergarten program for children who turn 5 between Sept. 2 and Dec. 1.
Las Lomitas district
Las Lomitas district registration began on Jan. 17. Parents should bring the following information to the Las Lomitas Elementary School office, at 299 Alameda de las Pulgas in Atherton, between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. weekdays: an original birth certificate or passport, proof of residency (the originals of two utility bills or a utility bill and lease or mortgage contract) and immunization records. Cellphone bills do not qualify as proof of residence.
A school tour, for adults only, for parents of incoming kindergarten students (and new first- through third-grade students) will be offered on Friday, Feb. 10, from 9:45 to 11 a.m. Tours are limited to 16 per tour and one tour per family. Call (650) 854-5900, ext. 0, to reserve a spot.
The Las Lomitas district does not offer transitional kindergarten.
Menlo Park district
In the Menlo Park City School District, kindergarten registration starts Feb. 1. Registration packets and directions for filling them out are available at each school. For information on the attendance boundaries for district schools contact the district’s registrar at (650) 321-7140, ext. 5600.
Tinyurl.com/MPCSD-map also shows school attendance boundaries.
Proof of residency, either a California Driver’s License or a current utility bill, is required.
In this district, a child registered to enter school for the first time who will be 6 years old on or before Sept. 1 will be enrolled in first grade.
The district does not offer transitional kindergarten.
Orientation meetings for parents of those starting kindergarten in the fall are scheduled at Encinal School on Thursday, April 6, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; at Laurel School Lower Campus on Thursday, April 20, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.; or Friday, April 21, from 10 to11 a.m. The Oak Knoll School orientation was on Jan. 26.
Go to mpcsd.org or call (650) 321-7140, ext. 5600, for more information.
Portola Valley district
Ormondale School at 200 Shawnee Pass in Portola Valley has begun the registration process for children entering transitional kindergarten (those turning 5 from Sept. 2 to Dec. 1) and regular kindergarten (5th birthday on or before Sept. 1).
Call 851-1777, ext. 2652, for more information.
Woodside district
Parents of children entering the two-year transitional kindergarten (5th birthday Sept. 2 to Dec. 1) or regular kindergarten (5th birthday on or before Sept. 1) may pick up registration packets for the 2017-18 school year at the Woodside School office, 3195 Woodside Road. and on the school website, Woodside.k12.ca.us.
There will be an information meeting at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in the Wildcats Room for parents with children going into either transitional or traditional kindergarten
Tours are offered on five Thursdays: Feb. 2, March 2, March 30, April 27 and May 18, from 9 to 9:30 a.m. Reserve a tour by calling (650) 851-1571.
A birth certificate, proof of residency, immunization records and a physician’s report will be required before a child enters school in the fall.
Visit Woodside.k12.ca.us or call (650) 851-1571, ext. 4003, for more information.
