Can A Child Be Registered At 2 Schools

Full general Registration Requirements

Registration for your student in grades 1-12.

Welcome to Fairfax Canton Public Schools (FCPS)! We're glad to have you join our school community.

For information virtually registration for the upcoming 2022-2023 school yr, delight contact your zoned school straight. Enter your address in the purlieus locator to determine the name of your zoned schoolhouse. If you already know your zoned schoolhouse, then you can notice your school's website by visiting our Schools and Centers Directory for contact information.

Families who need language support may contact the post-obit central office registrars:

العربية (Arabic): Belsam Tubia at [e-mail protected]
فارسی (Western farsi): Sima Navidi at [email protected]
한국어 (Korean): Carlin Kim at [email protected]
Español (Castilian): Miriam Dubon at [email protected]
اردو (Urdu): Farah Rana at [email protected]

For General Registration Questions, contact Patty Durish at 703-204-6734 or send an e-mail service to [email protected]. A staff member will contact you inside 2 business days to assist you.

five Steps to Register Your Student

Parents of students entering 1st through 12th grades should follow the instructions on this folio to complete the five-step process for student enrollment.

For kindergarteners, delight see the split up kindergarten registration page for the most detailed data.

Military families will register using the v-step process below; yet, encounter Armed forces Families: Planning your Arrival to Fairfax County for boosted student registration information to assist with the transition.

five-Step Registration Process - Written Instructions

Step 1: Determine Eligibility

The following two factors determine a student's eligibility to enroll in FCPS:

Residency - Children must be living with a parent and residing in Fairfax County.
Age - Children must be age 5 or older by September 30.

Step 2: Determine Where to Register

In order to kickoff the registration process, please fill up out the Home Language Survey form (link below). The form must exist completed for all students registering in our schools.

Home Linguistic communication Survey

FCPS Boundary Locator

Other Than or In Addition to English

If a language other than or in improver to English is shown on the Dwelling Language Survey, AND your child last attended a US school (public, private or homeschool), register at the local schoolhouse.
If a language other than or in add-on to English is shown on the Dwelling house Language Survey, AND your child final attended an international school, annals at the closest Educatee Registration Welcome Center:
- Dunn Loring Center (central Fairfax), 703-204-6740
- Lake Anne/Reston Center (northwest Fairfax), 703-668-0690
- South County Center, 703-742-4900

At FCPS Student Registration Welcome Centers, you can inquire questions and request information virtually enrollment in almost languages. At the centers, professionals may assess your student's English language skill and/or educational level. These assessments can provide valuable information to the local school and back up your kid'due south instructional needs.

Special Registration Situations - Depending on circumstances (nonparent registrations, divorced or separated parents, homelessness, foster care and foreign exchange students), you will annals at either the local school or a Student Registration Welcome Center. Please see Special Registration Situations. (See Home Instruction for the choice for abode schooling your child.)

Step 3: Gather Documents

Parents registering their children must provide several documents including proof of residency in Fairfax Canton, child's nativity document, parent'southward regime issued identification, child's wellness information, and child's immunizations.

Encounter General Registration Documents (link below) for consummate data regarding necessary documentation.

Please bring the registration documents to your engagement with a registrar (see Step v).

Full general Registration Documents

Step 4: Fill out forms

A parent will need to fill up out FCPS registration forms for each child being registered.

Registration forms can be downloaded from General Information Forms (link below). Select the Enrollment Forms Package option to admission all the necessary forms at in one case. Or pick up printed forms at the closest Student Registration Welcome Heart or the local schoolhouse office. For local schoolhouse pick upwards, exist sure to call alee so the forms can be set up for you lot when you make it.

Because we do not offer online registration, yous will need to download the forms to a reckoner, make full them out on the computer and print them. Or you tin print the forms and make full them out past mitt.

Please bring the completed registration forms to your appointment with a registrar (see Pace v).

General Registration Forms

Step 5: Make an appointment

Please call ahead for a registration appointment at a local school (Boundary Locator and Schools Directory) or a Student Registration Welcome Eye.

The student and at least one parent must be nowadays for the registration appointment at a school or a Student Registration Welcome Center.

Please try to arrive with your registration documents and completed registration forms.

Questions? Our registrars at local schools or at Pupil Registration Welcome Centers are available to assist families and students at whatever time during the registration procedure.

We look forward to partnering with yous to support your child's educational journeying in FCPS.

Student Transfers

A student is expected to attend the school that serves his or her attendance area. However, student transfer data is available if a parent would like to transfer a student from a base school to another school within FCPS. Transfer requests are considered for very specific reasons as outlined in FCPS School Board Regulation 2230.

You must first be registered at a neighborhood school earlier submitting a request for student transfer.