Enrollment and Registration

Required Documents

Requirements for Enrollment – A parent or other person with legal control of a child under a court order who enrolls a child in the District must provide:

Child’s Proof of Identity:

The child’s birth certificate or another document suitable as proof of the child’s identity.
If the parent certifies that the birth certificate is not available, RISD will accept a valid passport, hospital birth record, church baptismal record, adoption record, driver’s license, military identification card, or other legal document that establishes the child’s identity.

Social Security Card

This is optional. RISD uses a student’s Social Security number for submissions under the Public Education Information Management system (PEIMS). If a parent chooses not to provide a Social Security number, RISD will assign a state-approved identifier.

Child’s Complete Immunization Records

Date, month, and year of every immunization received.

Proof of Residency

Proof of residency is required upon enrollment for the following students:

Students new to RISD
Students who departed RISD and are returning
Current RISD students enrolling in a new school
Students enrolling in Pre-K
Students enrolling in Kindergarten
Students enrolling in first year of junior high or middle school
Students enrolling in first year of high school

Current Electric, Water or Gas Bill, or lease (signatures and dates must be visible), which must contain the parent’s name and parent’s address.
- Mortgage payment books, phone, cable, internet bills, insurance statements and driver’s licenses are not acceptable proof of residency.
- No terminations will be accepted.

Parent / Guardian’s I.D.

Driver’s License, State-Issued I.D., or Passport.

Proof of Withdrawal Form from Child’s Former School

This is required only if the child was withdrawn from school during the current school year.

Child’s Last Report Card

You may contact your attendance area school for questions related to the required documents for enrollment.

Miscellaneous Information About Enrollment and Registration

Pre-Kindergarten
See RISD’s Pre-K website.

Kindergarten
Kindergarten students must be five years old on or before September 1 of the current school year and the student and either parent must be a resident of the district.

First Graders
First graders must be six years old by September 1 of the current year unless the child has completed public kindergarten in another state/country or has been receiving public first grade instruction in another state/country.

School Finder
Not sure what school attendance area you live in? Find out with RISD’s School Locator.

Transfer Requests
For information on requests to transfer between RISD schools (Intra-District) or between RISD and another school district (Inter-District), see the Transfer Requests page.

Out of District
RISD schools are not currently open to students who live outside of district boundaries.