GARDEN GROVE : School Opens Sept. 5 for 39,000 Students
Classes for more than 39,000 students in the Garden Grove Unified School District will begin Sept. 5.
Registration is continuing for seventh- and eighth-grade and high school students. Offices at the district’s 41 elementary schools will be open for registration Monday, Aug. 26.
To enter the fall kindergarten program, a child must be 5 years old on or before Dec. 2. No exceptions may be granted to this minimum age requirement. As proof of a child’s birth date, parents must provide a certified copy of the birth record, a local registrar’s statement or a county record certifying the date of birth, a baptism certificate, a passport, an immigration visa or a notarized affidavit from the parent, guardian or custodian of the minor when no other document is attainable.
Before entering school for the first time, students are required by law to be immunized for polio, red measles, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, German measles and mumps. Parents need to present the school with written documentation of the immunization signed by the medical provider. Immunizations are available from private doctors or at Orange County Health Care Agency clinics.
Children also should receive a full check-up at the time they are immunized. An examination given at this time fulfills the legal requirement for a first-grade physical. The necessary forms for this examination are available from school offices.
Additional information may be obtained by calling the district’s public information office.
The Garden Grove School District covers most of Garden Grove and portions of Santa Ana, Westminster, Fountain Valley, Stanton, Cypress and Anaheim.
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