• 2025-2026 Kindergarten and 1st-Grade Registration
    -- OPEN TO ALL WHO QUALIFY - THIS IS NOT A LOTTERY --

    Kindergarteners must be 5-years-old and 1st-graders must be 6-years-old by 10/01/25.

    Online registration for Kindergarten and new 1st-graders is available! Follow these simple steps:
    1. Complete a pre-registration form online. The portal will open on February 10, 2025.
    2. Download a registration packet, available after you submit your pre-registration form online.
    3. Completed forms can be dropped off from February 18-21, 2025 at the school for which you are registering.
    4. In-person registration will be held in each elementary school on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

    ~ Registration packets are also available in each elementary school foyer. Please contact your child's school for assistance. ~

    Registration Requirements
    The following items in the registration packet must be completed and presented at registration:

    • Registration Data Sheet
    • Transportation Form
    • Copy of Birth Certificate 
    • Health History Form
    • Physical Examination Form “Only valid if exam completed after August 1, 2024”  
    • Proof of Residency (current tax bill/lease agreement-a full list is included in the registration packet) 
    • Immunization Record

    All children entering kindergarten and first-grade are required to have a physical examination and a documented series of immunizations. Immunizations required by the State of New Jersey are:

    • DPT, 4 doses with one dose given on or after the 4th birthday, or any 5 doses
    • Polio, 3 doses, the third dose given on or after the 4th birthday, or any 4 doses
    • MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), 2 doses after one year of age OR 1 dose after one year of age and documentation of laboratory titer level showing immunity
    • Hepatitis B Series (3 doses)
    • Varicella (Chicken Pox), 1 dose on or after age 1 or documentation of the date of the disease.

    Immunizations must be documented by a physician or health clinic. The physical examination must be completed between August 1, 2024 and August 1, 2025. Families unable to afford the cost of a physical examination should contact the Special Services Department at 284-7680.

     Additional Resources
     
    2025 Kindergarten Orientation Dates
    Barley Sheaf: Thursday, August 21
    Copper Hill: Monday, August 18
    Francis A. Desmares: Tuesday, August 19
    Robert Hunter: Wednesday, August 20
    Barley Sheaf

    80 Barley Sheaf Rd
    284-7586 (main)
    		Copper Hill

    100 Everitts Rd
    284-7660 (main)
    		Francis A. Desmares

    16 Old Clinton Rd
    284-7540 (main)
    		Robert Hunter

    8 Dayton Rd
    284-7620 (main)
Last Modified on January 23, 2025