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Kent City Schools Enrollment

Welcome Parents and Guardians

Please select from the links below to help guide you through the enrollment process.

  • Click here for Preschool Registration.

  • Use the Elementary School zone map –  see which elementary school any children in your household would attend.

     

  • I live WITHIN the Kent City School District and I want to enroll my student for grades KG -12. Click here for RESIDENT enrollment.

  • Click here is you live WITHIN the Kent City School District, and I want to request that my elementary student(s) to go to a different elementary school (intra-district).  

    RENEWAL applications for 2027-2028 WILL OPEN on APRIL 1, 2027, and NEW applications WILL OPEN on MAY 1, 2027. 

  • Click here if you live OUTSIDE of the Kent City School District, and  want to apply for Open Enrollment (inter-district) into the Kent City School District. 

    RENEWAL applications for 2027-2028 WILL OPEN on APRIL 1, 2027, and NEW applications WILL OPEN on MAY 1, 2027.

  • Click here if you’re not sure if you live WITHIN or OUTSIDE of the Kent City School District. 

  • Per Ohio House Bill 114, signed by Governor DeWine in December 2025, school districts must admit students who are five or six years old by the first day of instruction in the school year of admittance, which will be Wednesday, August 19, 2026.

  • To use this form, you are:

    “either:

    (a) Unable to locate or contact the child’s parents, or the child’s guardian or custodian; or

    (b) I am unable to locate or contact one of the child’s parents and I am not required to contact the other parent because paternity has not been established; or

    (c) I am unable to locate or contact one of the child’s parent and I am not required to contact the other parent because there is a custody order regarding the child and one of the following is the case:
    (i) The parent has been prohibited from receiving notice of a relocation; or
    (ii) The parental rights of the parent have been terminated.”
     

    Caretaker Authorization Affidavit - (rev. 2024) - Ohio Supreme Court


    WARNING: DO NOT EXECUTE THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY IF ANY STATEMENT MADE IN THIS INSTRUMENT IS UNTRUE. FALSIFICATION IS A CRIME UNDER SECTION 2921.13 OF THE REVISED CODE, PUNISHABLE BY THE SANCTIONS UNDER CHAPTER 2929 OF THE REVISED CODE, INCLUDING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT OF UP TO 6 MONTHS, A FINE OF UP TO $1,000, OR BOTH.

  • To use this form, you must:

    “certify that I am transferring the rights and responsibilities designated in this power of attorney because one of the following circumstances exists:

    (1) I am:

    (a) Seriously ill, incarcerated, or about to be incarcerated,

    (b) Temporarily unable to provide financial support or parental guidance to the child,

    (c) Temporarily unable to provide adequate care and supervision of the child because of my physical or mental condition,

    (d) Homeless or without a residence because the current residence is destroyed or otherwise uninhabitable, or

    (e) In or about to enter a residential treatment program for substance abuse;

     

    (2) I am a parent of the child, the child's other parent is deceased, and I have authority to execute the power of attorney; or

     

    (3) I have a well-founded belief that the power of attorney is in the child's best interest”

     

    Grandparent Power of Attorney (rev. 2024) - Ohio Supreme Court
     

    WARNING: DO NOT EXECUTE THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY IF ANY STATEMENT MADE IN THIS INSTRUMENT IS UNTRUE. FALSIFICATION IS A CRIME UNDER SECTION 2921.13 OF THE REVISED CODE, PUNISHABLE BY THE SANCTIONS UNDER CHAPTER 2929 OF THE REVISED CODE, INCLUDING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT OF UP TO 6 MONTHS, A FINE OF UP TO $1,000, OR BOTH.

  • Click here to WITHDRAW my student from the Kent City School District.