New registration procedures will be announced in the near future for parents/guardians registering children to attend Ansonia Public Schools. Please check www.ansonia.org .
Please note that all students attending Prendergast, Mead and Ansonia Middle School are required to adhere to the Ansonia Board of Education Required Attire policy. Click www.ansonia.org to view the policy.
During the week of July 13, 2009, all parents/guardians whose children are registered for Grades 1-6 received notification, by letter, of their child's school assignment for the 2009-2010 year. All efforts were made to keep siblings in Grades 1-6 in the same school; however, if an error has been made and siblings in Grades 1-6 are split between the two elementary schools, parents/guardians should contact the Superintendent's Office at (203) 736-5095.
During the week of June 29, 2009, all parents/guardians who registered their children for kindergarten by May 22 received notification, by letter, of their child's school assignment and whether the class is full day or part-day morning/part-day afternoon. Superintendent of Schools Carol Merlone, who issued the letters, said students were assigned strictly by lottery. Names were put into a database, and that is how classrooms were generated.
Mrs. Merlone explained that the school district is unable to support all full-day kindergartens for the 2009-2010 year. The configuration will be five half days sessions and five full day sessions. These changes were made due to a leveled budget and limitation of space in the school buildings due to the restructuring of the district, for the 2009-2010 year.
"We realize many individuals have extenuating circumstances," she said. "However, it is unfortunate that we cannot accommodate these requests."
If any vacancies in a full-day kindergarten come up due to a child leaving the district, Mrs. Merlone said, we will resubmit all of the part day students' names into the database again to offer the vacancy to a part-day student. This will be done at the end of August, if there are openings, with parents receiving notification by mail.