Family Forms + Enrollment

Kindergarten Registration

The Wakefield Public Schools offer tuition-free, full-day kindergarten to all our students. Following School  Committee Policy, children must be five years of age before September 1, 2024, to enroll in kindergarten. 

Kindergarten Registration for the 2024-2025 school year will take place from January 16 to February 2, 2024. During this period, please complete the registration form online at: https://www.wakefieldpublicschools.org/district/students-parents 

If your child currently attends the Doyle Early Childhood Center, please do not complete the online registration. Simply email  registration@wpsk12.org to confirm that your child will attend kindergarten in September. You may be asked to provide updated immunization records to other information by your child’s assigned school. 

The school to which your child is assigned is guided by the Wakefield Public Schools Zone Lookup list and class size. 

Criteria for school assignments will be based on this zoning list, students’ special education needs, equity of class sizes across the district, and registration during the assigned registration period (January 16th-February 2nd). In the zoning list, some addresses are in the “buffer zone,” where two schools will be listed as options for that address. In these situations, assignments to either school will be made based on the listed criteria above. 

You will be notified via email of your child’s school once assignments are finalized. Once your school assignment is confirmed, the secretary at that school will contact you regarding the process to submit the required documentation.  The documents that will be needed are: 

The attached Residency Requirements document outlines acceptable documentation. 

A Virtual Kindergarten Information Meeting will be held via Zoom on March 21, 2024, at 7:00 PM. A link for the meeting will be sent out closer to the date. 

Kindergarten screening will take place at your child’s assigned school in June 2024. Your school will contact you with screening and orientation information later in the school year. This will also be discussed at the Virtual Kindergarten  Information Meeting. If you have any questions or need further information, please contact the Superintendent’s Office at registration@wpsk12.org.  


New Student Registration

REGISTER A NEW STUDENT:

Step 1: To register a student please click this link to complete the enrollment registration form.

Step 2: After you have completed the enrollment registration form, you should receive two emails. One, saying your form was submitted, and one when your enrollment form was approved. The second email will include information about setting up a Parent Account in our Student Information System (SIS), so make sure you check your spam folder for this email and should come within 24-48 hours after registering your student.  Students Pre-Registering for next year will not receive a second email within 24-48 hours.  Once the registration time is completed, the administration will review all applications and make final decisions on school placements.  At the end of this process, you will receive an email. 

STEP 3: Once you have created a parent account and you log into our SIS, please fill out all forms to complete the registration process.

If you do not receive the second email, please contact the appropriate person listed below:

Additional information about Kindergarten-specific enrollment can be seen in our Letter from the Superintendent.