• Kindergarten Roundup / Enrollment

    Kindergarten Roundup will be on Tuesday, April 12.  The dates and times will be listed beneath after Spring Break. Please register at your zoned school. If you are new to Knox County, accept moved since the roundup, or missed the roundup, please contact your local school.

    The first two weeks of school will exist a staggered schedule for Kindergarten students. Students will nourish a one-half-day each week (with dismissal at 12:00 apex) kickoff on August 9, 2022 . The first full solar day for Kindergarten volition exist on Mon, August 22, 2022. The schoolhouse will notify parents either by letter of the alphabet or phone telephone call earlier the school yr begins regarding their kid'southward staggered twenty-four hours schedule.

    If y'all are not able to attend Kindergarten Roundup, yous can still enroll by going past your zoned schoolhouse to choice upwards enrollment informaiton.

    Kindergarten Enrollment Age Requirements

    Children should be 5 past August xv to enter school for the upcoming school year.

    Early Entry for Students Turning 5 Later August 15

    If a child has a birth appointment after August fifteen and the parent would like Knox County Schools to consider early entry, they would follow these steps:

    • The parent should go to their zone schoolhouse and ask for the "Parent Referral to the S-Team".
    • The parent volition make full out the "Parent Referral to the South-Team" and return it to the primary of the zoned school.  The school volition schedule a Back up Team Meeting with the parent, the master, a Kindergarten teacher representative, and the school psychologist to review the "Parent Referral to the S-Squad".
    • The team may recommend that the school psychologist acquit an evaluation for eligibility of the intellectually gifted criteria.
    • The Individual Education Plan (IEP) Team may asking permission for an evaluation past the schoolhouse psychologist.   (The IEP Team includes the parent(southward), the school principal, a Kindergarten teacher representative, and the school psychologist.)
    • At the completion of the testing, the Individual Educational activity Plan (IEP) Team will reconvene to review the testing and make a decision regarding giftedness, and the demand for early entry.

  • New Enrollment in Knox County Schools

    Welcome! We are pleased to have yous equally a new fellow member of our community.

    If you are new to Knox Canton and your child has never attended school (only starting Kindergarten), please see the data about registering for Kindergarten and for Kindergarten roundup.

    Kindergarten is a full mean solar day program meaning that school will outset at vii:45 and dismiss at 2:45 each day.

    How practise I enroll my child?

    A parent or legal guardian must enroll the student at the zoned school. If you do not know the school to which you are zoned, utilize this link https://www.knoxschools.org/domain/1289 to detect your schoolhouse zone. Complete the Enrollment and Emergency Forms and whatsoever other school specific paperwork. Individual schools may have boosted required paperwork, enrollment packets can exist picked upwards at your zoned school.  The enrollment packet and any additional information (every bit noted below) must be printed and turned in. No information will be accepted by email.

    You will need the following information to enroll:

    • Proof of Birth - Proof of nascency may take many forms.  Examples include simply are not limited to the following:
      • Birth Certificate - issued past an government
      • Passport issued by any nation (translated)
      • Immigration documentation
      • Decree of adoption or other records issued by a court

    The form that proof of birth takes is an area of parental discretion, and schools volition accept appropriate documentation as offered. No one form of documentation is required or preferred over another.

    • Proof of up-to-date immunizations and of a health/concrete exam, recorded on a Tennessee Child Wellness Record completed past a medical provider or a Canton Wellness Department. The form to be completed may be obtained from a medical provider or from the Health Section. The health/physical exam must have been completed within the past year. No educatee will exist enrolled or allowed to nourish school without a completed Tennessee School Immunization Document.
    • Current Proof of Residence - Knox County Schools requires 1 of the post-obit: a) Utility Bill, b) Lease Agreement, c) in cases where the utilities and/or lease understanding is in the proper name of a person other than the parent/guardian, the person listed must provide the utility pecker and/or lease understanding and also provide a notarized letter stating that the parent/guardian and children are living at that address.


    What about my child's previous school records?

    You volition demand to provide the school with the name and accost of the child's previous schoolhouse and the new school will send a request for your kid'south records.

Moving betwixt schools...

  • Moving From One Knox County School to Another

    Parents must enroll their children at their zoned school. In the upshot you accept moved out of your current school's zone into another Knox Canton School zone, you should:
    • Notify your old school that your child volition be moving to another Knox County School zone due to a residence change.
    • Become to your new zoned school and complete the Enrollment/Emergency Class and other school specific paperwork. You lot will need to accept additional information with y'all when you enroll at the school. Yous will need the following:
    • Proof of Residence (Example: Lease, Mortgage, Current Electric Service bill)
    • Please note that to attend a schoolhouse other than the schoolhouse zone in which you lot live requires a transfer.

    How would I request a transfer?

    Knox Canton Schools accept specific zones ready up for school attendance. Knox Canton students must attend the school in the zone where their legal parents/guardians reside. If a parent would like the child(ren) to attend a school outside his or her zone, a transfer must exist granted. An approved transfer is valid through terminal grade of the schoolhouse, (Chiliad-5, 6-8, 9-12). If canonical, parents volition be responsible for transportation. For more information visit the Transfer Department website.

Immunizations

  • Tennessee Section of Health immunization requirements for students

    Who'southward affected:

    New students to KCS
    Kindergarterners

    7th Graders

    Anyone who is not electric current on immunizations The Tennessee Section of Wellness Immunization Certificate is required for entry into school. The form is bachelor from your medical provider or local health department.

    All vaccinations should be up-to-date and documented on the form prior to enrolling in Pre-school, Kindergarten, Seventh grade or equally a new student entering Knox County Schools.

    Students without the required immunizations and correct document may not attend school. This includes grades pre-school, Kindergarten, seventh grader and new students to KCS. Parents should contact the Knox County Health Section at (865) 215-5150 or their primary care physician for the form.

    Here are the required immunizations:

    Pre-Schoolhouse requirements:
    • DTaP or DT
    • Hepatitis B (HBV)
    • Poliomyelitis (IPV or OPV)
    • H.influenzae (HiB):historic period younger than 5 years only
    • Varicella (Chickenpox)
    • Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR)
    • Pnuemococcal (PCV): age younger than v years only
    • Hepatitis A
    Kindergarten requirements:
    • DTaP or DT
    • Polio (IPV or OPV): (concluding dose on or afterwards the 4th birthday)
    • Measles, Mumps, Rubella (two doses of each, commonly given together every bit MMR)
    • Varicella (Chickenpox): 2 doses or history of disease
    • Hepatitis B (HBV)
    • Hepatitis A (2 doses)
    Seventh grade requirements:
    • Tetanus-diptheria-pertusis booster (Tdap)
    • Verification of immunity to varicella (2 doses or history of disease)
    New student requirement:
    • Tetanus-diptheria-pertusis booster (Tdap) or DT
    • Hepatitis B (HBV)
    • Polio (IPV or OPV): final dose on or after the quaternary birthday
    • Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
    • Varicella (Chickenpox): 2 doses or history of disease

    Children with medical exemptions must provide documentation from their medical provider. Religious exemptions crave a signed statement by the parent/guardian that vaccination(s) conflict with their religious tenets or practices.

    For additional data, delight contact the Knox Canton Wellness Section at (865) 215-5150 or Knox Canton Schools Wellness Services at (865) 594-3735.