Student Registration

Answer: If you have moved to a new address, please click on the Gainesville City School System School Attendance Zone Map to determine your new school zone or district.

Answer:  The school will change your child's enrollment to a provisional enrollment. A visit to your home will be scheduled by your school to confirm residency. If residency is confirmed, the school will then sign off on the residency affidavit in place of the landlord. If residency is not confirmed by the visit, the student will be withdrawn after the 30 day provisional enrollment expires.

Answer: You can change your address through the Parent Portal. 

Answer: You will need to withdraw your child from their current school and complete a transfer. Please follow these instructions to withdrawal/transfer your child. 

Answer: You will need to withdraw your child from their current school. Please follow these instructions to withdraw your child.

Answer: Board Policy JBC provides for a 30 day provisional enrollment. If you will be in the home within 30 days, you may enroll using the new enrollment process. Click this link to go to the New Student Enrollment Process. If it will be longer than 30 days, you will need to use the Out of District Tuition process. Click this link to go to the Out of District Tuition Process. You will receive a prorated refund after you are living in your new residence in the school zone.

Policy JBC : School Admissions

IX. Provisional Enrollment

1. A student shall be enrolled on a provisional basis and allowed to attend a school for 30 calendar days while awaiting evidence of age or other local requirements. The provisional enrollment period may be extended for extenuating circumstances at the discretion of the superintendent or designee.
2. The superintendent or designee shall notify the registering parent or guardian at least 10 calendar days prior to the withdrawal of the student.
3. If evidence is not provided within this period, the superintendent or designee shall record the student withdrawn at the end of the thirtieth day.
4. The registering parent, guardian, or other person will be considered non-compliant and subject to all penalties as prescribed in O.C.G.A.  § 20-2-690.1.
5. The superintendent shall report violations to the appropriate authorities for adjudication.

Answer: The enrolling parent needs to withdraw the child from their current school.
The parent the child will be living with will then need to enroll their child at their new school. 

Answer: A student whose parents are divorced or legally separated may enroll in the attendance zone where either parent resides provided the court has not terminated the parental rights of the parent. Change in attendance zone based on this paragraph may be initiated only within the first ten days of a semester, within ten days of enrollment in the school or within ten days of the date a divorce or change of custody order is granted.

Answer: If you have moved to a new address, please click on the Gainesville City School System School Attendance Zone Map to determine your new school zone or district. 

If your new address is not in your current school’s attendance zone, but is still within the Gainesville City School District, you may apply for your child to remain enrolled in his/her current school see the In-District Transfer Request webpage.

In February, parents who live in the Gainesville City School District may apply for a child to transfer to another school in the district. More information can be found on the In-District Transfer [Choice Enrollment] Request webpage.

Answer: In February, Out-of-District Application information is made available for families who would like to apply to attend Gainesville City Schools the following year. For more information, including deadlines, please visit the Out-of-District Information webpage.