White River Valley Supervisory Union
Early Childhood Education
White River Valley Supervisory Union
Prekindergarten Registration
Vermont’s Universal Prekindergarten (Act 166), allows children who are 3 or 4 or 5 and not yet attending kindergarten by September 1st to attend the prequalified preschool program of their families choosing for 10 hours per week for 35 weeks. You may wish to ENROLL your child in your town’s public preschool program or in a private childcare program. Both must be prequalified, which means that a VT State licensed preschool teacher must provide preschool instruction for those ten hours and the program must hold a Quality Star rating of 4 STARS or 3 STARS with a plan to achieve their 4th STAR. All White River Valley public prekindergarten's are prequalified. For additional prequalifed sites go HERE
REGISTER VS ENROLL
All children must be REGISTERED with their home town's school’s registrar to receive prekindergarten funding regardless of whether they are attending a public program or a private program. If you wish to send your child to a private program you may enroll your child and your residential school district will partner with your private program to ensure funding. If you do not register your child with your public school registrar, funding may be prorated if completed after the start of the new year.
WHAT IF I WORK AND CAN'T GET TO OUR SCHOOL DURING THE DAY TO PICK UP A REGISTRATION PACKET?
DOWNLOAD THE WHITE RIVER VALLEY SUPERVISORY UNION PREKINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION PACKET HERE
PROOF OF RESIDENCY DOCUMENTS AND PROOF OF ELIGIBILITY DOCUMENTS MUST ACCOMPANY COMPLETED REGISTRATION PACKETS
PUBLIC PREKINDERGARTEN
If you wish to enroll your child in your town's public prekindergarten fill out the entire REGISTRATION PACKET ABOVE and return to your schools registrar. For a list of school registrars go HERE.
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PREKINDERGARTEN SCREENING AND REGISTRATION DATES TBA
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PRIVATE PREKINDERGARTEN
If you wish to enroll your child in a private prequalified prekindergarten/child care program OR a public prekindergarten program outside of your town/SU, you will not need to fill out the medical forms. Your program will have their own forms for you to fill out. The first four pages must be filled out and returned to your home town's school registrar with supporting documents: proof of residency and proof of eligibility.
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WHAT IF MY TOWN DOESN'T HAVE A SCHOOL?
If you live in Hancock or Granville, once you have decided where you would like to enroll your child in Prekindergarten, contact Tara Weatherell, Registrar for Granville and Hancock at 763-8840, Ext 111. If you have downloaded the registration packet, you can send it to her at :
Tara Weatherell
WRVSU
461 Waterman Road
Royalton, VT 05068
WHAT IF I LIVE WITH FRIENDS OR FAMILY?
Jan Crow, Preschool Coordinator at (802)763-8840 Ext 105 with questions.
