Student Registration

Kindergarten and First Grade Registration

Any child residing within the school district, who will become five years of age on or before December 1 of the entering year, is eligible to apply for admission to kindergarten. Likewise, any child who will be six years of age on or before December 1 of the entering year, is eligible for first-grade admission.

At the time of registration to school, a parent must present the student's original birth certificate and social security card. A parent must also present proof of residency showing the legal street address.

Acceptable forms for proof of residency:

Notarized lease or deed
Utility Bill
Tax Bill
Telephone Bill

Documents with post office box numbers are not acceptable proof.

A guardian or agency must present evidence, or have in their possession, a court order assignment and/or a Department of Social Services assignment or authorization to act on behalf of the State of New York.

A student is also required to have the necessary immunizations before entering school.

Registration guidelines also apply to all new entrants coming to Westhampton Beach.

Other New Registrants

Acceptable forms for proof of residency:

Notarized lease or deed
Utility Bill
Tax Bill
Telephone Bill

Documents with post office box numbers are not acceptable proof.

A student is also required to have the necessary immunizations before entering school.

Sending District Student Registration

Westhampton Beach accepts students on an annual tuition basis from the following sending districts: East Moriches, East Quogue, and Remsenburg-Speonk.

Students must first go to their home district's office and obtain a letter of approval to attend Westhampton Beach Schools prior to registering as a student within the district.

Student Immunizations

Under New York State's Immunization Law, students may not attend school unless they provide acceptable written proof (including dates) of immunizations. Section 2164 of the New York State Public Health Law requires that all children receive the following:

3 or more doses of diphtheria toxoid
3 or more doses of oral polio-myelitis vaccine
2 doses of measles containing vaccine if born on or after January 1, 1985*
1 dose each of mumps and rubella if born on or after January 1, 1985 (preferably as MMR)*
3 doses of hepatitis B
1 dose of varicella if born after 1/98

*Measles, rubella, and mumps vaccines may be given singly or in combined forms.

If a child is in the process of receiving immunizations, it should be noted that there is a two-month waiting period required between one diphtheria shot and the next, and a two-month waiting period required between one polio vaccine and the next. There is a one-moth waiting period required the administration of single measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines. Consequently, if a child is in the process of receiving immunizations he/she is to be admitted to school. School nurses will follow up on children who have entered our schools and are in the process of receiving required immunizations.

Children in the process of receiving all immunizations and have not completed them due to the required waiting time interval are not to be denied admission to school. Children who do not complete required immunizations within the time period required will not be permitted to continue attending school after the time period has expired.

No child shall be admitted to school without one of the following:

Written proof of adequate immunizations
A certificate from a physician stating that the child cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons
A signed statement from the parent/guardian indicating that they are members of a specific recognized religious organization opposed to immunizations against diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, and polio.

Any parent interested in free immunizations for children may obtain them at the Riverhead County Health Center (631-852-1800), or contact the Suffolk County Medical Society, Hauppauge, for the name of a doctor in your area.

Legislation has been passed which establishes that all children born on or after January 1, 1993, and students entering grade 7, will be required to receive hepatitis B vaccine upon entering public, private, or parochial kindergarten, elementary, intermediate, or secondary school. This legislation also affects children born on or after January 1, 1995 as they enroll in pre-kindergarten programs throughout the State.

Recent Changes in Immunization Requirements

Students who will be enrolled in the 6th grade in 2005 are required to be immunized against varicella (commonly known as chickenpox).

Specifically, the varicella amendment requires the following:

Students born on or after January 1, 1994 and who enroll in the 6th grade at the beginning of the 2005-06 school year must be immunized against varicella;
Those students born on or after January 1, 1994 and who transfer to a school in this state from another state or country after this law becomes effective on January 1, 2005 must be immunized at the time of entry into the school in the State of New York;
Special Education students in gradeless classes who were born on or after January 1, 1994 must be immunized against varicella at the start of the 2005-2006 school year;
Students born on or after January 1, 1994 who are repeating the 6th grade at the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year are required to be immunized against varicella.

All children born on or after January 1, 2005 must be immunized against pertussis (commonly known as whooping cough) and tetanus for school entry and attendance.