All public schools organized within the Grand County School District shall be open to all children between the ages of 5 and 21 years:
- whose parents or guardians reside within the boundaries of the school district; or
- whose parents or legal guardians do not reside within the boundaries of the school district but the student is residing in the district under other arrangements. The Superintendent will determine if the arrangement provides acceptable and satisfactory adult supervision and responsibility for the student before he or she grants eligibility; or
- whose parents or legal guardians lives in another county with the student who attends school in Grand County.
GUARDIANSHIP FOR RESIDENCY PURPOSES
Any adult person who is willing and able to provide reasonably adequate food, clothing, shelter and supervision for a minor child may obtain guardianship of a minor child by:
- Statement of Intent to Become Permanent Resident: Submitting to the Superintendent a signed and notarized statement by the student's legal parent that it is their intent that the student become a permanent resident of the State and to reside with and be supervised by the named responsible adult;
- Accepts Responsiblities of Guardianship: Submitting to the Superintendent a signed and notarized statement by a responsible adult who states that he or she accepts the responsibilities of guardianship for the student.
TUITION
Any student who is not a resident of the State of Utah but has obtained written approval to attend school in this District may be required to pay tuition. The tuition is equal to the per capita expenditure for the program in which the student is enrolled, less any State per capita contribution to the program. Students in established exchange programs such as Youth for Understanding, Rotary, etc will not be charged tuition as they are "exchange" students.
KINDERGARTEN
Utah Code 53-19-1 establishes a uniform kindergarten entrance date for all children entering kindergarten in Utah schools. Children entering kindergarten in Utah must be five years old on or before September 2nd of the year in which admission is sought. This law will be strictly applied in the Grand County School District. Readiness tests will not be administered as a means to circumvent the intent or the law regarding the uniform kindergarten entrance requirements.
FIRST GRADE
Pupils whose sixth birth date falls on or before September 2nd of the year admission is sought may enter the first grade. Pupils who have completed one full year of an approved kindergarten program whose birth date falls after September 2nd may be admitted to the first grade following an evaluation by and recommendation of the building principal.
Adopted: 6/22/94; Revised 12-18-02 * GRAND COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * Moab, Utah
5110 - STUDENTS - ADMISSION - IMMUNIZATION
No person may be admitted to any school in the District unless he or she has presented to school officials a certificate of immunization from a licensed physician or authorized representative of the state or local health department. The document must state that the student has received immunization against communicable diseases as required by the Department of Health.
The Board shall comply with any modifications or deletions in the required immunizations that may be made by the Department of Health.
EXEMPTIONS
Immunization is not a prerequisite for admission to the District schools when the person applying for admission submits one of the following:
- Medical Reasons: a certificate signed by a physician who is registered and licensed to practice medicine within the United States stating that the physical condition of the student is such that one or more specified immunizations would endanger the student's life or health.
- Religious Conflict: a statement signed by one of the following persons that the individual has a personal belief opposed to immunizations, or that the person is a bona fide member of a specified, recognized religious organization whose teachings are contrary to immunizations:
A. one of the student's parents.
B. the student's guardian.
C. a legal age brother or sister of a student who has no parent or guardian.
D. the student, if of legal age.
CONDITIONAL ADMITTANCE
A person may be conditionally admitted to the District schools if he or she has received at least one dose of each of the required vaccinations prior to enrollment and continues to receive the necessary vaccinations as rapidly as is medically feasible. The school shall review the immunization status of conditionally enrolled students every 60 days to ensure continued compliance.
EXCLUSION OF STUDENTS NOT IN COMPLIANCE
Students enrolled conditionally shall be excluded from school if the parents or guardians do not provide to the school appropriate documentation of adequate immunization. Exclusion from school shall begin five (5) days after the conditional enrollment time period expires. Within those five days, the school shall mail to the last known address of the parent or guardian a final written notice of a pending exclusion and of the student's right for filing an exemption.
EXCLUSION OF EXEMPT AND CONDITIONALLY ENROLLED STUDENTS
Whenever there is good cause to believe that a student attending school under an exemption or conditional enrollment has:
- a vaccine-preventable disease;
- has been exposed to a vaccine-preventable disease; or
- will be exposed to a vaccine-preventable disease as a result of school attendance
the student may be excluded from the school by authority of the local health officer. The student may not attend school until the local health officer is satisfied that the student no longer risks contracting or transmitting the disease.
ACCEPTABLE DOCUMENTS OF IMMUNIZATION
School officials may accept any immunization record provided by a licensed physician, registered nurse, or public health official as a certificate of immunization if the type of immunization given and the dates given are specified. This information shall be transferred to an official Utah Certificate of Immunization form and verified by the District.
Each school in the District shall retain official certificates of immunization for every enrolled student. The certificate becomes a part of the individual student's permanent school record.
The records shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times by representatives of local health departments or the State Department of Health.
SUSPENSION
If the conditional enrollment period expires a written notice shall be mailed to the last-known address of a parent or guardian indicating suspension is pending completion or progress towards certification of immunization, and informing the recipient of the notice of the student's rights to an exemption.
Beginning five days after the notice is sent, the school principal shall prohibit further attendance by the conditionally enrolled student for failure to obtain the immunization required or otherwise established by rule of the State Department of Health.
Adopted: 6-22-94; Revised 12/18/02 * Grand County School District * Moab, Utah
5120 - STUDENTS - ADMISSION - VISION SCREENING
A child under seven years of age entering school for the first time in this state must present one of the following to the school:
- A certificate signed by a licensed physician, optometrist, or other licensed health professional approved by the Division of Services for the Visually Handicapped, State Office of Education, stating that the child has received vision screening to determine the presence of amblyopic or other visual defects.
- A written statement signed by at least one parent or legal guardian of the child that the screening violates the personal beliefs of the parent or legal guardian.
The District shall conduct free vision screening clinics for children aged three and a half to seven, but may not use a licensed health professional, providing vision care to private patients, as part of the clinics.
District personnel shall cooperate with the Division of Services for the Visually Handicapped in following up on students who fail vision screening.
The District shall report to the Division of Services for the Visually Handicapped the screening results from the free visual screening clinics and shall include in the report any other information required by the Department of Health.
Adopted: 6/22/94 * GRAND COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * Moab, Utah
5130 - STUDENTS - ADMISSION - PLACEMENT
In general, pupils will be placed at the grade level to which they are best adjusted academically, socially, and emotionally.
TRANSFER STUDENTS
Out-of-state transfer students, transfer students from Utah non-public schools, and foreign exchange students shall complete all state graduation requirements to be eligible for a Utah diploma. Required units that are not completed prior to enrolling in the District may be satisfied by advanced placement examinations, credit by examination, correspondence courses, completing the course, or demonstrating achievement by meeting the standard requirements of the course.
Additional Local Requirements
The District may require additional local units for graduation under any of the high school programs.
Adopted: 6/22/94; Revised: 12/13/95; Revised: 11/19/97 * GRAND COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * Moab, Utah
5140 - STUDENT - ADMISSION - IDENTIFICATION RECORDS
Upon enrollment of a student for the first time in a particular school, the person enrolling the student must, within 30 days, provide either a certified copy of the student’s birth certificate, or other reliable proof of the student’s identity and age, together with an affidavit explaining the inability to produce a copy of the birth certificate.
Upon failure of a person enrolling a student to comply the school shall:
- Notify that person in writing that unless he or she complies within 10 days the case shall be referred to the local law enforcement authority for investigation.
- If compliance is not obtained with that ten day period, the shall refer the case to local law enforcement authorities.
REPORTING INACCURATE OR SUSPICIOUS AFFIDAVITS
The school shall immediately report to local law enforcement authorities any affidavit received pursuant to this policy which appears inaccurate or suspicious.
IDENTIFICATION OF MISSING CHILDREN
Upon notification by the Criminal Investigations and Technical Services Division of the Department of Public Safety (hereinafter called “the division) of a missing child (in accordance with Section 53-10-203), a school in which that child is currently or was previously enrolled shall flag the record of that child in a manner that whenever a copy of or information regarding the record is requested, the school is alerted to the fact that the record is that of a missing child. The school shall immediately report any request concerning flagged records or knowledge as to the whereabouts of any missing child to the division.
Upon notification by the division that a missing child has been recovered, the school shall remove the flag from that child’s record.
SCHOOL RECORDS FOR TRANSFER OF STUDENT
Within 14 days after enrolling a transfer student, a school shall request, directly from the student’s previous school, a certified copy of his record.
The requesting school shall exercise due diligence in obtaining that record.
Any school requested to forward a copy of a transferring student’s record to the new school shall comply unless the record has been “flagged”, in which case the copy shall not be forwarded and the requested school shall notify the division of the request.
Approved: 12-18-02 * GRAND COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * Moab, Utah
5150 - STUDENTS - ACCEPTANCE OF OUTSIDE CREDIT
ACCREDITED SCHOOLS
Grand County School District / GCHS, shall accept student credit at face value from public schools accredited by Northwest Association of Accredited Schools and by other regional or third party accrediting associations recognized by Northwest.
Grand County School District / GCHS shall accept student credit at face value from non-public schools if the school meets the following criteria:
- the school was accredited by Northwest; or
- the school was accredited by a regional, national organization, or third party accreditation association representing the appropriate category of the applicant school recognized by Northwest.
The credits designated for acceptance by Grand County School District shall include a description as explanation of the public or non-public school’s credits comparability to Utah Core Curriculum requirements.
Credits that do not compare to Utah Core Curriculum standards/requirements may be accepted as elective credit only.
NON ACCREDITED SCHOOLS
If a school is not accredited, Grand County School District has discretion in accepting the non-accredited school’s credit.
Grand County may choose to consider and accept non-accredited school credit based upon either:
- examination of course work;
- a test to verify knowledge in the area in questions;
- a portfolio of work demonstrating the student’s knowledge;
- other valid lines of proof;
- or a combination of any or all of the above.
Reference R277-705-3 State Rules; 53A-13-108.5 Utah Code
Approved: 10-18-06 * GRAND COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT * Moab, Utah