This is the first school year SISD will offer full-day pre-K at all 25 elementary campuses districtwide. While the district currently offers full-day pre-K at nine campuses, Superintendent Rodney Watson announced the expansion during the annual State of the District event Feb. 10.
Although registration was originally expected to open April 13, district officials announced that day that registration had been delayed until further notice. SISD officials later announced the opening of registration in a news release April 27.
"We have been preparing for the move to full-day pre-k classes across the district for several months," said Lupita Hinojosa, chief of School Leadership and Student Support Services, in a statement. "Although we always welcome and are eager to enroll students anytime, this preregistration will help us know how many students will be enrolled and enable us to better prepare and plan for the coming school year."
According to the release, eligible pre-K students will need to be 4 years old on or before Sept. 1 and meet Texas Education Agency eligibility requirements to register; eligible kindergartners—who are not already enrolled in pre-K at SISD—will need to be 5 years old on or before Sept. 1 to register.
Additionally, the district's dual-language program will be offered to pre-K and kindergarten students at Clark Primary, the International School at Salyers Elementary School and the School for International Studies at Bammel Middle School—which is in the process of becoming a pre-K-8 international school—starting with the 2020-21 school year. Kindergartners at Northgate Crossing and Hirsch elementary schools will also have the opportunity to enroll in the dual-language program, the release states.
"We are pleased to be offering additional opportunities and choices to our families this coming school year, and we invite parents and guardians of rising pre-k and kindergarten students to take advantage of this opportunity to preregister," Hinojosa said in a statement.
