Toms River Schools Open Kindergarten Registration

TOMS RIVER, NJ — The Toms River Regional School District is accepting registration for students from preschool through 12th grade as it prepares to return to fully in-person learning for the 2021-22 school year.

Registration can be completed online. You must have all the required documents available to upload before you start the registration process.

The documents required are:

Proof of parent's identity: An original driver's license or photo passport for the registering parent must be submitted.

Child's birth certificate with the raised seal

Proof of residency: You must provide specific documents to establish residency or you will not be able to register your child. Here are three situations that make a family eligible to send children to Toms River Regional Schools:

• If you and your child are residents of Toms River, Beachwood, Pine Beach, or South Toms River (i.e. you own, lease, or rent a home or apartment), bring copies of the four (4) documents for verification of residency detailed in the Application for Registration- Proof of Residency Checklist.
• If you are currently legally residing/domiciled with your child in the home of a resident in our districts, the resident (homeowner/lessee) must provide the four (4) documents for verification of residency detailed in the Application for Registration- Proof of Residency Checklist AND the legal parent/guardian must provide two (2) documents for verification of residency as detailed in the Application for Registration- Admission of Domiciled Student Checklist, with both parties signing before a notary.
• If you, the parent, are not a resident of nor domiciled in Toms River, Beachwood, Pine Beach, or South Toms River (read two descriptions above), but a Toms River Schools zoned resident is the proposed guardian of your child, the resident/guardian (homeowner) must contact the Central Registration office at 732-505-2600 to determine eligibility to attend the district. An interview will need to be scheduled with both the proposed guardian and the parent.
• There are also special situations related to child protective services, court orders, and the military. Please call our staff at Central Registration so that they may assist you.

There are required health forms to print out and fill out. The complete forms must be emailed to your child's school email address listed at the bottom of the registration confirmation page.

Parents and guardians who have registered children for kindergarten are urged to participate in the Ready 2 Rock Kindergarten events.

Ready 2 Rock Kindergarten is a virtual presentation showing how parents can incorporate math into their everyday lives, learn about the phonics program, discuss and learn some multi-sensory strategies in order to strengthen and develop reading skills, and learn ways to ease a child's anxiety about starting school.

Parents will be given notes to the presentation and parents will be asked to complete a survey at the end of the presentation. During each session, the families who are able to attend the workshop will be entered into a drawing to win a special prize.

The virtual Ready 2 Rock Kindergarten event has three dates, as follows:

• May 3, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.: For families who will have a child attending Joseph A. Citta, North Dover, Silver Bay, Walnut Street, or West Dover
• May 3, 6:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m.: For families who will have a child attending East Dover, Cedar Grove, or Hooper Avenue
• May 4, 6:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m.: For families who will have a child attending Beachwood, Pine Beach, South Toms River, or Washington Street

On the date that applies to you, use this link to join the workshop.

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