Contact: Dean Jackson
Office of Public Information
Phone: 770.254.2736
Fax: 770.254.2757

Press Release
Coweta County Schools

Date: March 5, 2008

Pre-Kindergarten registration March 10-21
 

Application for Coweta County School System Pre-Kindergarten classes will begin this Monday, March 10 and continue through noon on Friday, March 21.

Parents can apply to enroll their students in 2008-09 Pre-K classes at their child’s district elementary school through those dates. If students are selected for placement in the limited-space classes on March 21, parents will then be asked to formally enroll their child in the Coweta county School System.

No enrollment documentation is required to apply for Pre-K at schools, but parents should be certain that they are applying at their correct district school (call 770-254-2820 to inquire about which elementary school district serves a home). Students must also be four years old on or before September 1, 2008 to be eligible for next year’s Pre-K.

Pre-K students in the Northside, Ruth Hill, Elm Street, Atkinson, and Jefferson Parkway districts will apply for slots at Jefferson Parkway Elementary School, since those schools’ Pre-K classes are located at Jefferson Parkway. All other students should apply at their district school.

To apply, parents must visit their districted school and complete a purple Coweta County Pre-K registration form for each child. The parent will cut off the registration portion of the form and place it in the lottery box each site will have.

Unlike other elementary school grades, there are a limited number of Pre-K classes in Coweta schools. If more than 20 students apply for an available Pre-K class, the school must hold a lottery drawing to determine placement in the class.

Application for the classes will end at noon on Friday, March 21; lottery drawings will be held at 1 p.m. that day. Parents do not need to be present for the drawing.

Parents whose children are selected by lottery can then formally register their child in the following weeks at the school system’s Central Office registration center, on Werz Industrial Drive in Newnan. The names of students who are not selected will be placed on a waiting list for that class.

Georgia’s four-year-old Pre-Kindergarten classes are also offered at private day care centers around Coweta County, which register students separately.

Elementary schools will accept Pre-K applications for eligible students on Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the period. To accommodate parents’ work schedules, all schools will hold an expanded registration day from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on March 18.

Application for Pre-K slots and registration for selected students are being held separately because the school system has begun registering all new students at the Werz Drive central office.

More information about registration times and procedures can be found at district schools, or by calling the registration office at 770-254-5551. Information about new student registration and directions to the Central Office can also be found at www.cowetaschools.net/registration.

Parents will also be able to register their five-year-old students early for 2008-09 Coweta County Kindergarten classes the school system’s Central Office registration center, from April 1 through May 1.

Students must be five years old on or before September 1, 2008, to be eligible for Kindergarten classes at their district school. Parents interested in touring their children’s new school are urged to call the school for a visit, but registration will not be done at individual schools sites.

Parents who wish to register their children for next year’s Kindergarten classes can call the Central Office registration center for appointments or for more information. The center’s registrar urges parents to call for an appointment to reduce wait times.
After School Programs are also available at Coweta County schools, and parents can inquire about fees and times at their district school.

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