Welcome New Students for 2024-25!
Our open-enrollment period for the 2024-25 school year has now ended and a lottery will be held on Friday, February 9, 2024 at 9:30am.
Prospective students may continue to submit Pre-Enrollment Applications and will either be added to the list for an enrollment invitation or added to the waiting list (depending on the number of open spaces in the grade applied for) in the order they are received.
The 2024-25 Pre-Enrollment Application is available here
Open Enrollment Period for 2024-25
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January 26, 2024
Open Enrollment Ends
February 9, 2024, 9:30am
Lottery for 2024-25
February 9, 2024, to the Beginning of the School Year
Pre-Enrollment Applications Will Continue to be Accepted
Pre-Enrollment Applications will continue to be accepted. Students are placed in a class (or if the class is full, on the waiting list) on a first-come, first-served basis with the exception of board-approved enrollment preferences (see Enrollment and Lottery Policy on Documents and Policies page).
Starting March 2024
Offers of Enrollment for Kindergarten
Kindergarten offers of enrollment begin in March. Emails will be sent with links to the official on-line Enrollment Form. Until last day of July of the upcoming school year, applicants will have five (5) business days from the date the email was sent to return the signed Enrollment Form with a photocopy or scan of the child’s birth certificate. Starting August 1 of the upcoming school year, applicants will have two (2) days to complete the enrollment form.
- Prior to the Start of School – Parents must schedule Early Childhood Screening and registration appointments within your own resident school district.
- Early Childhood Screening is a mandated program for all children entering kindergarten in Minnesota. The district census list of 3- to 4-year-olds is used to obtain names and send notices about screening dates.
- If you are unsure as to whether your child is on the census, you may check with the Stillwater’s Enrollment Office at 651.351.8412. Appointments for the screening typically last one hour and are held at the Early Childhood Family Center, 1111 Holcombe Street S., Stillwater MN 55082, and can be made by calling 651.351.4022.
- If you do not live within District 834, check with your own resident school district’s enrollment office.
Late March, 2024, to Late Summer
First- Through Fifth-Grade Offers of Enrollment
First- through fifth-grade offers of enrollment are made based on class openings using the confirmed returning student list and established new student waiting list. Emails will be sent with links to the online Official Enrollment Form. Until last day of July of the upcoming school year, applicants will have five (5) business days from the date the email was sent to return the signed Enrollment Form. Starting August 1 of the upcoming school year, applicants will have two (2) days to complete the enrollment form.
As long as spaces are available, River Grove plans to continuously enroll students for the 2024-25 school year. If a student completes an application for River Grove for the 2024-25 year after offers of enrollment for the next year go out to other new applicants, and the class becomes full because of new applicants, that student is placed on the bottom of the waiting list for the 2024-25 school year.
During Enrollment
Adjustments to Waiting List Placement
To allow families to remain together, if a student’s sibling officially enrolls, the student’s place on the waiting list may move to the top of the list. In other words, siblings of students are moved up the waiting list when a sibling enrolls in the school.
For example, if a kindergartner enrolls for the next year, his/her waitlisted sibling will move ahead on the sibling’s grade-level waiting list.
Please see Enrollment and Lottery Policy on Documents and Policies page for further information on enrollment priorities.
TBD
Spring Parent Info Meeting
TBD
Summer Parent Info Meeting
Ongoing
Invitations to Enroll will be offered as classroom openings become available. All of our families are asked to inform River Grove if their school plans change as soon as possible. The goal is for every student in every grade to be able to participate in the first day of school with their new classmates.