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5111 - ELIGIBILITY OF RESIDENT/NONRESIDENTSTUDENTS FOR ENROLLMENT
The Board of Education establishes the following policy for determining eligibility to attend the public schools of this county.
The Board shall provide a free and appropriate education to all children who have attained the age of five (5) years prior to the first day of September of the school year during which such child is enrolled in kindergarten and has attained the age of six (6) years prior to the first day of September of the school year during which such child is enrolled in Grade one (1) and has not yet attained the age of twenty-two (22) years; or who is attending public school in accordance with the provisions of §18-20-1,
Code of West Virginia, and West Virginia Board of Education Policy 2419. §18-20-1 and Policy 2419 relate to the education of pre-school, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescent and adult students whose educational programs require special education and related services, including three (3) year olds, as of their third birth date, through five (5) year olds with disabilities and those who are between five (5) and twenty-one (21) years of age prior to September 1st of such school year, unless the student has met graduation requirements as specified by their Individualized Education Program and within the State/local policy pertaining to graduation requirements.No student shall be admitted for the first time to any public school in the County unless the person enrolling the student presents a copy of the student’s original birth record certified by the State registrar of vital statistics confirming the student’s identity, age, and State file number of the original birth record. If a certified copy of the student’s birth record cannot be obtained, the person so enrolling the student shall submit an affidavit explaining the inability to produce a certified copy of the birth record.
Unless students are transferred to a County school from outside the County according to pertinent provisions of law and policy or are homeless students as that designation is defined by the State Code or are foreign exchange or other foreign students visiting persons residing in the County, they must be residents of the County in order to enroll in the school system.
W.V. State Board of Education Policy 2419
18-20-1, W.V. Code