Registration

Dear Parents/Guardians of Incoming/New Students:

Registration for enrollment in the Peabody Public Schools can now be completed online.

Please visit our website – www.peabody.k12.ma.us – click on “Student Registration/Student Re-Enrollment” under the Parent/Guardian tab and complete the google form there. Once we receive your request, you will receive an email (from Aspen, Peabody’s Student Information System) with your credentials to start the process.

All Aspen credentials for new students will be created in March and the months that follow.  Registration procedures will be sent to the email entered on the registration form. Please look for it in your inbox (including your spam folder).

  • For Kindergarten Parents:  Your child must be 5 years old on or before September 1 of the current school year
  • For Pre-K parents:  Please make sure to specify which program you are looking for. If you don’t know, please select the “Not sure / Unknown” box. We will follow up with you either via email or phone call.

The following documents will need to be uploaded when completing the online registration

  • Child’s Birth Certificate – original or certified copy (hospital birth certificates are NOT valid)
  • Immunization Record/Physical Examination – Massachusetts State Health Law requires you to provide a copy of a current medical record including all required immunizations, before your child starts school. 

**For incoming Pre-K and Kindergarten students, proof of lead screening with the date of the screening is also required.

  • Proof of residency in Peabody – provide TWO of the following documents dated within the past 60 days in parent/guardian’s name:
    • 1st Proof of Residency ( 1 of the items below)
      • Mortgage, property taxes, lease, section 8 or housing agreement
    • 2nd Proof of Residency (1 of the items below)
      • Electric, gas, oil, cable, water, landline telephone bill
      • Letter from approved government agency – Revenue (DOR), Children and Family Services (DCF), Transitional Assistance (DTA), Youth Services (DYS), and Social Security.

*If you do not have any utilities under your name and you reside with a family member or friend; please email us to request  the “RESIDENCY AFFIDAVIT” letter. It will  have to be notarized and you will need to provide TWO proofs of residency under that person’s name (see above)

  • Proof of Parent/Guardian’s Identity – provide one of the following:
      • Driver’s License or State Photo ID
      • Passport/Green Card
  • If Available or Applicable
    • Transfer card / transcript from previous school
    • Special Education Individualized Educational Plan (IEP)
    • 504 Plan
    • Latest MCAS or WIDA reports

Students enrolling under the McKinney-Vento Act:
The McKinney-Vento Act covers children and youth who don’t have a fixed, adequate and regular nighttime residence, including living:

  • in a shelter;
  • in a motel or hotel; or
  •  in a campground, in a car, bus or train station, an abandoned building, or other inadequate accommodation; or
  •  with other people due to loss of housing, economic hardship or similar reason (also known as doubled up)
  • this includes migrant youth and unaccompanied youth living in any of the above situations

Please contact Steven Magno, magnos@peabody.k12.ma.us, 978-998-1937

Students in Foster Care:

Please contact Kara Migliozzi, migliozzik@peabody.k12.ma.us, 978-536-5585

 

Sandra DaCunha

978-536-6545

Diane McCormick

978-536-6545