Boston Public Schools Registration Season Begins

Boston Public Schools officials have unveiled a new website about school registration. The site, "Discover BPS," is deisgned to Boston Public School families learn more about the school options available to them for the 2012-2013 school year.

Registration for next school year has begun. The first round of registration for students entering kindergarten, sixth and ninth grade in September is going on now through Feb. 3. For more information, BPS parents are encouraged to visit this BPS registration link. 

BPS' annual registration hotline, 617-635-9046, is where parents can ask a questions related to school registration. The hotline is staffed by a multilingual team of BPS employees.

“We have heard from families loud and clear that registering for schools was far too cumbersome, so we took action to simplify the process,” said Superintendent Carol Johnson via press release. “We recognized that we needed to make this a process that works for the families we serve. By reducing the number of documents needed to register and eliminating duplicate steps from the process we have streamlined the registration experience.”
 
The new Discover BPS web tool provides parents to more easily determine schools available for them to choose, as well as learn more about each school. The website is still in an early stage of use and is being tweaked where necessary, is a project of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics. 
 
“Our goal is simply to make parents in Boston aware that now is the time to discover BPS and to make the process as easy as possible,” said Denise Snyder, Senior Director of Welcome Services for BPS, via press release.