Furthermore,

parents will be able to look up information on bus routes at the school

system's Web site ( www.coweta.k12.ga.us ) beginning Aug. 2.

Registration

will be conducted at individual schools. (For attendance zone information,

call the Transportation Office.)

Elementary

schools will register Aug. 1 and 2, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, and 1 - 3

p.m.

Pre-K students

must be 4 years old, kindergarten students must be 5 , and first grade

students must be 6 by Sept. 1.

Middle schools,

grades six through eight, and high schools, grades nine through 12, will

register Aug. 1 and 2, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. and 1- 3 p.m.

If registering

a child in Coweta County schools for the first time, parents should bring

the following:

Proof of residency (lease,

mortgage, power bill, etc.);

Birth certificate;

Social Security card;

Previous school records

(transcripts and last report card from previous school);

Georgia immunization certificate

(including hepatitis B

inoculations);

Vision/hearing, dental screening

certificates;

Sixth graders need proof

of MMR and booster, and proof of chicken pox (varicella) immunization.

Visitation

for all schools will be Aug. 8 from 1 - 3 p.m. This is a time for parents

and students new to the school to visit briefly. A representative of the

Transportation Department will be on hand at each school during this time,

and during the first day of school, to provide students and parents information

regarding buses and routes.

Teachers will

not be available for conferences at this time. Conferences are to be scheduled

at other times. Open houses for individual schools will be offered at

various times shortly after opening day.

The Central

Educational Center will also have a parent/student orientation session

at the Martin Luther King Drive campus Aug. 7 at 7 p.m. to answer question

about classes or transportation, school-to-school transitions, the CEC

work ethic grade, and other policies and programs specific to CEC. For

information phone 678-423-2000.

Fairmount Alternative

School will have a two-day parent/student orientation. Parents of students

assigned to Fairmount School are required to attend one of these four

sessions, Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 7 and 8, from 9 - 10:30 a.m., or

5 - 6:30 p.m. For information phone 770-254-2870.