Registration to enroll children in South Pasadena elementary schools for the 2024-25 school year started on Jan. 10.
Parents and guardians interested in registering their children should first visit their home school to pick up a registration packet and schedule an appointment for an in-person meeting.
The meetings will be held between Jan. 17 and Jan. 23 for families who have other children in the district, or Jan. 31 to Feb. 7 for new families. The child’s home school is determined by the attendance area boundaries for each school, and addresses may be verified using the School Locator by Street posted on the district website.
To improve the likelihood that siblings will attend the same elementary school, siblings of current students will be allowed to register first. When parents/guardians complete their registration meeting during the designated dates with the required paperwork, they are ensured an equal chance of being placed at their home school during the new family lottery, regardless of when the initial meeting takes place. The date and time of registration will only be used to determine school placement (as space permits) for children who register after Feb. 7.
With the statewide expansion of the transitional kindergarten program, children who turn five between Sept. 2 and June 2, 2025 will be eligible to register for the TK program offered this fall. Children born between Sept. 2, 2019 and June 2, 2020 are eligible for transitional kindergarten. More information about the TK program may be found on the SPUSD website and TK registration information may also be found here.
SPUSD also offers a Dual Language Immersion Program for elementary and middle school children. For parents interested in learning more about the program, SPUSD created a general overview presentation that has been shared on the Dual Language Immersion Program webpage.
Children who are currently enrolled at SPUSD schools are automatically registered for the following school year. School registration is a multi-step process and should be followed as outlined below:
SIBLINGS OF CURRENT STUDENTS (TK-5)
SPUSD considers siblings as a family with at least one child currently enrolled in SPUSD (TK-Grade 12) and having a sibling with prior attendance at the home school.
Starting Jan. 10 at 9 a.m., visit your home school (Arroyo Vista, Marengo, Monterey Hills) in person to pick up a registration packet and schedule an appointment between Wednesday, Jan. 17 and Tuesday, Jan. 23. Please read the printed packet carefully before completing the online forms.
Once you have read the packet and scheduled your appointment, proceed to the online registration portal at https://my.spusd.net, review the instructions, and fill out the online AIR registration form, which will open on Jan. 12.
Print two copies of the completed form and bring them to your in-person, registration appointment.
Finish the registration process during the scheduled appointment. Parents/guardians must submit all required paperwork including residency verification documents. Visitors are urged to follow health and safety guidelines when visiting schools in person.
STUDENTS NEW TO THE DISTRICT (TK-5)
Determine the home school for your child, view attendance area boundaries and verify addresses using the School Locator by Street posted on the district website.
Starting Jan. 10 at 9 a.m., visit your home school (Arroyo Vista, Marengo, Monterey Hills) in person to pick up a registration packet and schedule an appointment between Wednesday, Jan. 31 and Wednesday, Feb. 7. Please read the printed packet carefully before completing the online forms.
Once you have read the packet and scheduled your appointment, then go to the online registration portal at https://my.spusd.net, review the instructions, and fill out the online AIR registration form, which will open on Jan. 12. Print two copies of the completed form and bring them to your in-person, registration appointment. Finish the registration process during the scheduled appointment. Parents/guardians must submit all required paperwork including residency verification documents. Visitors are urged to follow health and safety guidelines when visiting schools in person.
STUDENTS INTERESTED IN THE DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION (DI) PROGRAM
Determine the home school for your child – view attendance area boundaries and verify addresses using the School Locator by Street posted on the district website.
Starting Jan. 10 at 9 a.m., visit your home school (Arroyo Vista, Marengo, Monterey Hills) in person to pick up a registration packet and schedule an appointment. Please read the printed packet carefully before completing the online forms. Children with siblings in the district should schedule their appointment to finish registration between Jan. 17 and Jan. 23. Children new to the district should schedule their appointment to finish registration between Jan. 31 and Feb. 7.
Once you have read the packet, proceed to the online registration portal at https://my.spusd.net, review the instructions, and fill out the online AIR registration form, which will open on Jan. 12. (Note interest in Dual Language Immersion, possible older sibling enrollment in the DI program and language fluency). Print two copies of the completed form and bring them to your in-person, registration appointment. Finish the registration process during the scheduled appointment. Parents/guardians must submit all required paperwork including residency verification documents. Visitors are urged to follow health and safety guidelines when visiting schools in person.
Required documents at the registration appointment include three current proofs of residence, two copies of the printed AERIES Internet Registration (AIR), original birth certificate or passport for the child, original immunization records for the child (officially translated, if in another language), and photo identification of the parent/guardian registering the child.
After sibling and new family registrations take place, two different lotteries will be held. First, the Dual Language Immersion lottery will be held to establish the DI kindergarten classes at Marengo (Mandarin) and Monterey Hills (Spanish), and then the new family lottery will be held to establish priority among the new families who have registered at each home school. The DI lottery will take place on Friday, March 15 at 3:30 p.m. Results from the DI lottery will be emailed to participants. DI commitment forms are due to Marengo or Monterey Hills by 12 p.m. on March 26. The new family TK/K lottery will take place on Friday, April 12 at 3:30 p.m. These lotteries are open to the public and will be held in the District Office Board Room.
If parents would like a child to attend a school other than the designated home school, they must complete an open enrollment form, available at the school office, or downloadable here and turn it in to their home school where they registered, by 12 p.m. on March 26. The open enrollment lottery will take place in early August, and those placements, if possible, will be made just before the start of the 2024-25 school year.
Families with new middle or high school students may register their students at the school sites beginning March 11 by appointment. Please check the school or district websites for more information.
First published in the January 12 print issue of the South Pasadena Review.
