All registration will be done at the home school. Please call your school or visit your school's website for more information.

Access all Student Registration forms.

Payments can be made on our Student Fee Payment System.

Find detailed information about Student Fees.

When registering as a new student to Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202, the following information will be required:

1. Completed Registration Forms

2. Official Certified Embossed Birth Certificate issued by the county/country where the student was born.  We cannot accept the decorative footprint hospital certificate.  You may register with a copy of the original birth certificate and then produce the original within 30 days to the school.

3. Photo I.D. of Person Enrolling the Student (or Valid Passport)

4. Legal Custody/Guardianship Documents pertaining to the custody of the student (if applicable). You must provide a divorce decree or legal guardianship papers (Guardianship Affidavit)

5. Current Health Requirements - Find Health Requirements here

6. Current Physical dated within the last 12 months of the start of school and it must meet Illinois State requirements.

7. Current Immunizations must be noted on the Physical

8. Most Recent IEP, if applicable - If the student is receiving special education services, you must provide a copy of the most recent Individualized Education Program in order to set up appropriate placement.

9. For High School Students Only - Unofficial transcripts, Withdrawal grades, and Class Schedules are required.  High School students need to provide these additional documents in order to set up a class schedule and insure proper credit.

10. 3 Proofs of Residency - 1 or 2 from each Category to make 3 total

* NEW HOMEOWNER THAT CLOSED WITHIN THE LAST 30 DAYS:
Three (3) specific documents from closing packet required. (2 from category A and 1 from Category B)

NOTE: If you do not own or rent the home in which you are residing, please obtain the residency affidavit and bring the documents listed on the cover sheet of that document.

11. Payment: Please refer to the Fee Statement included for Elementary and Middle School in the registration packet. High School Student fees are paid at the school during the appointment with the counselor.

Registration by nonresident families (in the process of establishing residency) will be allowed at any time throughout the school year. New families moving into the district who wish to register before occupying their residence must:

• Move into the district within 120 calendar days of enrollment

• Provide proof of residency within two weeks after moving into the District

• Pay a $350.00 non-refundable fee per family.

Payments may be in the form of a check, cash, VISA or MasterCard. This payment will be separate from any school fees. 

A child MUST be age 5 on or before September 1st to register for Kindergarten per Illinois school code. 

District 202 kindergarten program will be full day. The full day program will include reading, writing, math, science, social studies, oral language, intervention support, and explore extensions. Explore extension time will include literacy, math, fine motor skills, and play based activities that support social and emotional learning. In addition, the full day program will include art, music or PE every day.

For parents interested in a half day program, please note that the half day program is a reduced schedule and will include instruction in reading, writing, and math. Parents should contact the office at their home elementary school for half-day kindergarten program information. 

District 202 uses the Connect-ED telephone messaging system to personally share important information with our community about issues ranging from local building-level matters to district-wide emergencies. Learn more here.

• School Transfer Request

• Contact Information Form

• K - 2 Acceptable Use of Technology (Signed Agreement) - English

• K - 2 Acceptable Use of Technology (Signed Agreement) - Spanish

• 3 - 12 Acceptable Use of Technology (Handbook Agreement) - English

• 3 - 12 Acceptable Use of Technology (Handbook Agreement) - Spanish

• Find our Acceptable Use of Technology in additional languages here

• If your child was previously enrolled in the Plainfield School District 202 and did not attend any other school you will need to complete the registration forms and show proofs of residency.

• If your child was previously enrolled in the Plainfield School District 202 and attended other schools in between you will be required to provide an Illinois State Transfer form for grades K - 12th if coming from a school within the State of Illinois or a Letter of Good Standing for grades 6th - 12th if the child is transferring from a private school or coming from out of state.

• If your child is completing an expulsion and is returning to school in the Plainfield School District 202 and did not attend any other schools in between, you will need to complete the registration forms and show proofs of residency.

• If your child is completing an expulsion and is returning to school in the Plainfield School District 202 and attended other schools in between you will have to provide documentation from the previous school (official transcripts), complete the registration forms and show proofs of residency.

ALL registration will be done at students’ home schools.

• Military Form - English

• Race & Ethnicity Form - English

When a student moves within the district during the school year, you must go to your child's school to complete an address change form for your child.

You must present three proofs of residency as listed below: (We do not accept faxes)

3 Proofs of Residency – 1 or 2 from each Category to make 3 total

NOTE: If you do not own or rent the home in which you are residing, please obtain the residency affidavit and bring the documents listed on the cover sheet of that document.

If the student's new address is in a different school's attendance zone, you have the option to allow the student to complete the school year provided the parent transports the student to and from school. The other option would be to transfer your child to the home school according to the new address.

District 202 uses a mass communications system incorporating recorded telephone calls, emails and text messages to communicate a wide range of emergency and non-emergency information with families.

This system operates through traditional land lines (telephone messages), computers (emails) and personal smart phones (telephone messages, text messages, emails, apps, etc.)

District 202 and your home school(s) will use all contact information provided as part of student registration as needed and appropriate for automated mass communications.

Please contact your school directly to change how you receive automated mass communications, or to “opt out” of such communications altogether.

Please Note: Any modifications to how you receive automated mass communications will not affect your home school’s ability to reach you through other communications methods, or your school’s ability to use automated mass communications for emergencies.

TRANSMISSION OF STUDENT INFORMATION BY EMAIL

District 202 employees may send unencrypted, personally identifying information about students (such as test scores, report cards, IEP information, discipline letters, etc.) over email.

By registering your student, you agree that District employees may send such information to parents/guardians through email.

Please contact your school directly to modify how you receive personally identifying information about students by email.