Enrollment and Registration

Required Documents

Child’s Proof of Identity
Must include one of the following:
- - Certified Birth Certificate
  - Hospital Birth Record
  - Passport
  - Resident Alien Card
  - Adoption Records
  - School I.D. Card
  - School Records
  - School Report Card
  - Any legal document that establishes 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
- House or Condo
  - Current Electric, Water or Gas Bill, which must contain the parent’s name and parent’s address.
- Apartment
  - Current apartment lease, which must contain the parent’s name and the parent’s address.
- Telephone, Internet or Cable Bills
  - These are not accepted as a valid proof of residency.

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- This is required only if the child was withdrawn from school during the current school year.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
Full-day Pre-K for the 2020-2021 School Year is free for qualifying families, and tuition-based Pre-K is available to RISD employees. To qualify, the child must be 3 or 4 years old before September 1, 2020. For more information, 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 are 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 does not accept students living outside the district on a tuition-paid basis.