Friday, August 3, 2001

Registration starts Parents can get information on bus schedules, routes and school districts by calling the Coweta County School System Transportation Department at 770-254-2820. Furthermore, parents will be able to look up information on bus routes at the school system's Web site (www.coweta.k12.ga.us) beginning Aug. 2. Registration will be conducted at individual schools. (For attendance zone information, call the Transportation Office.) Elementary schools will register Aug. 1 and 2, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, and 1 - 3 p.m. Pre-K students must be 4 years old, kindergarten students must be 5 , and first grade students must be 6 by Sept. 1. Middle schools, grades six through eight, and high schools, grades nine through 12, will register Aug. 1 and 2, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. and 1- 3 p.m. If registering a child in Coweta County schools for the first time, parents should bring the following: Proof of residency (lease, mortgage, power bill, etc.); Birth certificate; Social Security card; Previous school records (transcripts and last report card from previous school); Georgia immunization certificate (including hepatitis B inoculations); Vision/hearing, dental screening certificates; Sixth graders need proof of MMR and booster, and proof of chicken pox (varicella) immunization. Visitation for all schools will be Aug. 8 from 1 - 3 p.m. This is a time for parents and students new to the school to visit briefly. A representative of the Transportation Department will be on hand at each school during this time, and during the first day of school, to provide students and parents information regarding buses and routes. Teachers will not be available for conferences at this time. Conferences are to be scheduled at other times. Open houses for individual schools will be offered at various times shortly after opening day. The Central Educational Center will also have a parent/student orientation session at the Martin Luther King Drive campus Aug. 7 at 7 p.m. to answer question about classes or transportation, school-to-school transitions, the CEC work ethic grade, and other policies and programs specific to CEC. For information phone 678-423-2000. Fairmount Alternative School will have a two-day parent/student orientation. Parents of students assigned to Fairmount School are required to attend one of these four sessions, Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 7 and 8, from 9 - 10:30 a.m., or 5 - 6:30 p.m. For information phone 770-254-2870. What do you think of this story? Click here to send a message to the editor. Back to News Home Page | Back to the top of the page