Enroll in GUSD!

Information about enrollment in GUSD during shelter in place directive

Welcome to Gilroy Unified School District’s enrollment process for new students entering Transitional Kindergarten through 12th grade.

Before proceeding, please consult the GUSD School Locator map to ensure you enroll you student in the school corresponding to your address.

Please also review the Parent Information Handbook, as well as the Media Opt-Out Form for Gilroy Unified. If you have any questions about this process please call or email the secretary for your school site. Click here for GUSD school site contact information.

Online Enrollment (requires uploading of additional documentation)

Use the below link to fill out the GUSD Online Enrollment form. The online process will require uploading additional documents.

There are a number of required documents that must be uploaded as part of the online enrollment process. Please review these School Registration Requirements.

To begin, click the “Enroll A New Student” button. You will be directed to create a username and password which will enable you to also log in at a later time if you do not complete the enrollment process in one session.

If you have already started this process or are a returning user and need to complete, review or print your information, click the “Login” button.

Begin Online Enrollment

Physical Packet enrollment (for families unable to use the online enrollment system)

Print (using the buttons below) or pick-up a registration packet and manila envelope at a Food Distribution school site from 10:00-1:00, on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays. Please do not stay at the food distribution location to fill out the forms.

Place the completed registration packet and copies of the required additional documents into the manila envelope and deposit in the registration box at any Food Distribution school site.

** Food distribution sites include: Ascencion Solorsano Middle School, South Valley Middle School, Antonio Del Buono Elementary School, Eliot Elementary School, Glen View Elementary School, Rod Kelley Elementary School and Rucker Elementary school. Click here for address information for food distribution sites. **

REGISTRATION
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FORMULARIO DE MATRICULACIÓN

TK / KINDERGARTEN

Registration for 2020-21 transitional kindergarten (TK)
and kindergarten begins March 4, 2020 and is ongoing.
For more information contact your neighborhood school.

REGISTER FOR TK:
If your child will be 5 years old
from Sept. 2-Dec. 2, 2020

REGISTER FOR KINDER:
If your child will be 5 years old
on OR before Sept. 1, 2020

enrollment FAQs

TK/Kindergarten

What is transitional kindergarten (TK)?

Created by the 2010 California law called the Kindergarten Readiness Act, and offered across the state, transitional kindergarten (TK) is an exciting educational opportunity to prepare children for kindergarten. Under the 2010 law, TK offers children with birthdays from September to December a developmentally appropriate curriculum taught by credentialed teachers from K-12.

Transitional kindergarten bridges the path between preschool and kindergarten and gives students the gift of time that will help them build a strong foundation for future school success. It blends social and emotional experience with academic learning, so that students not only learn essential pre-literacy, pre-math, and other cognitive skills, but also develop social and self-regulation skills needed to succeed in school and life.

(Source: TKCalifornia)

Which GUSD schools have TK programs?

Must children attend kindergarten?

How long is the kindergarten school day?

By state statute, the maximum school day in kindergarten is four hours (EC 46110). An exception to this statute allows schools that have adopted an early primary program (extended-day kindergarten) to exceed four hours (EC 8973).By state statute, the maximum school day in kindergarten is four hours (EC 46110). An exception to this statute allows schools that have adopted an early primary program (extended-day kindergarten) to exceed four hours (EC 8973).

Can my child repeat kindergarten?

Under EC sections 48010 and 48011, a child who has been admitted to kindergarten in a private or public school in California or any other state and who has completed one year in that school shall be admitted to the first grade of an elementary school unless the parent and the school agree that the child should continue kindergarten (for not more than an additional school year).