
The Governing Board encourages the enrollment and appropriate placement of all school-aged children in school. Before enrolling any child in a district school, the Registrar must verify the child's age, residency, immunization, and other applicable eligibility criteria specified in law, the accompanying administrative regulation, or other applicable Board policy or administrative regulation. These requirements can be found on the Registration Page and to the right.
ORAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENT
All students are required to have an oral health assessment (routine dental check-up) by May 31 of their first year in public school (California law, Education Code Section 49452.8).
If students have not had a routine dental check-up, they will need to schedule one and have their dental provider complete the form.
If students have had a routine dental exam in the past 12 months this will meet the requirement, but their dental provider will still need to complete the form.
The letter and the required form can be found on the right.
FIRST GRADE
Arcadia Unified will verify that students have complied with legal requirements for a comprehensive health screening upon school entry, in addition to immunization requirements. Our school district offers vision and hearing screening examinations only. Please read the letter (to the right) regarding Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) for more information. You will also find the CHDP Health Exam Report to the right. This can be printed and brought to your healthcare provider doing the exam.
KINDERGARTEN AND TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN
Arcadia Unified School District (AUSD) also provides a selection of educational options for students entering pre-primary levels based on the student’s date of birth. The District offers two distinct Kindergarten programs to meet individual students’ needs.
Our traditional Kindergarten program has a rigorous academic focus and addresses all of the California Department of Education Kindergarten Content Standards between August and June. Traditional Kindergarten is available to children who reach the age of five years old on or before September 1 of the current school year.
A second program option, Transitional Kindergarten (TK), is available for those children who will reach the age of four years old on or before September 1. Transitional Kindergarten allows children “the gift of time” – an additional year to grow and learn in an environment that supports differences in growth and maturity rates. Students who turn 4 after September 1 must wait until the next school year to enroll.
For more information on ways to prepare your child for school, see the Parent's Guide to Preparing for Kindergarten. A letter to parents with information about Transitional Kindergarten is also available to the right. Dates and additional information about enrolling your child in AUSD are available to the right.
TK and K CAMPS
We offer 2 camps to help our NEW students transition to school. We welcome all incoming Transitional Kindergarten (TK) students to TK-Camp a no-fee Transitional Kindergarten Summer School Program. We also offer K-Camp to new students that did not participate in TK and are new to elementary school. These are specially designed programs to introduce young students to elementary school and help to support them to AUSD Elementary Schools. You will receive information on registering for K-Camp during the enrollment process. Camps start in June and your child MUST be enrolled in AUSD to participate. So don't wait to enroll.
For more information and dates, please see the K-Camp Flyer for the 2025-26 school year: