Student enrollment form: collect what the office needs to place a student

A student enrollment form records who the student is, how the office can reach a parent or guardian, and what the school needs to place the student in the right program. Ask for each detail once, make the legal name match the records the office will check, and request documents such as birth or immunization records through the office's own process rather than through the form. Leave out identifiers and private history that enrollment does not need.

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Field blueprint

Enrollment fields that a placement decision actually uses

Field	Type	Required	Why you ask it
Student legal name Enter the name exactly as it appears on the birth record or the official document you will verify.	Short text	Required	Must match the name on the records the office checks. A preferred name belongs in its own field.
Preferred name	Short text	Optional	Used on class lists and in messages to the student, without changing the legal record.
Date of birth	Date	Required	Confirms age for grade placement and any age-based rule the school follows.
Grade or class entering For example: Grade 4	Short text	Required	Sets the placement the office proposes. Ask for the level, not the student's last report card.
Parent and guardian contacts Add the adult who has legal responsibility for the student first.	Section header		Separates the family's contact details from the student's own record, so the office can find each group quickly.
Parent or guardian name	Short text	Required	Identifies the adult the office contacts about enrollment decisions.
Relationship to the student ParentLegal guardianOther adult with legal authority	Single choice	Required	Shows whether a separate authority document needs its own check before the enrollment is accepted.
Parent or guardian phone	Phone	Required	The main route for urgent school contact during the school day.
Parent or guardian email	Email	Required	Used for the office's follow-up on missing details and for enrollment letters the office sends.
Home address	Long text	Required	Confirms the attendance area and the address where school mail and transport notices go.
Emergency contact name This person should not be the parent or guardian already listed.	Short text	Required	A second adult the office can call when no parent or guardian can be reached.
Emergency contact phone	Phone	Required	Gives staff a working number for the second adult, so an emergency call does not depend on the parent's phone.
Previous school	Short text	Optional	Lets the office ask the last school for records, once the family has agreed to that request.
Health or allergy needs staff must act on Name what staff must act on, such as a severe allergy or a medicine given at school. The health office handles anything beyond that.	Long text	Optional	Lets the health office plan safe care before the first day of school.
Accuracy I confirm the information above is accurate and I will tell the office about any change.	Multiple choice	Required	Records that the family reviewed the details before submitting, so the office does not have to treat every answer as unverified.

At a glance

How long a family spends on the enrollment

14Fields

11Required fields

6Estimated time (minutes)

Estimate based on question types; actual completion time varies.

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Adjust the new-student form for transfers and returning students

Transfer student

A student who attended another school during the current year and needs records sent.

Add: Date of last day at the previous school
Add: Last grade completed

Returning student

A student who was enrolled here last year and needs an update rather than a new file.

Add: Confirmation that the address and phone numbers are still current
Remove: Previous school

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Student legal name Required

Enter the name exactly as it appears on the birth record or the official document you will verify.

Preferred name

Date of birth Required

Grade or class entering Required

Parent and guardian contacts

Add the adult who has legal responsibility for the student first.

Parent or guardian name Required

Relationship to the student RequiredParentLegal guardianOther adult with legal authority

Parent or guardian phone Required

Parent or guardian email Required

Home address Required

Emergency contact name Required

This person should not be the parent or guardian already listed.

Emergency contact phone Required

Previous school

Health or allergy needs staff must act on

Name what staff must act on, such as a severe allergy or a medicine given at school. The health office handles anything beyond that.

Accuracy RequiredI confirm the information above is accurate and I will tell the office about any change.

Questions to leave out

Enrollment questions that belong to the office, not the form

What is the student's Social Security number?

Do not collect a national identifier in an open online form unless a rule your school must follow requires it. If it does, use the process that rule names.

Are you able to pay the school's fees?

Fee questions do not belong on an enrollment record. Handle fees through your existing billing process after the place is confirmed.

What is the family's immigration status?

Immigration questions carry legal limits on how a school may use the answer. Do not add one without counsel's review of the wording and its purpose.

Has the student been suspended before?

Disciplinary records come from the previous school through its own records process, not from a parent's answer on this form. Ask for them only where your records process requires it.

After a response arrives

What the office does after a family submits

Check the grid at a set time each day
Each enrollment is saved as it arrives. An hourly run processes the batch, and the creator is notified only after that run finishes. Pick a daily time to open the grid, so the office never waits on a notice.
Export the list and check it by hand
Take the CSV export as your working list, then compare it with the records you already hold. Attain OS has no link to your student information system, so every correction still goes in through your own process.
Track missing documents as cases
If the office uses Customer Care for follow-up, turn on case creation in the form settings and set an owner there. Keep a list of the document each family is still missing, so a missing birth record does not sit unread in the grid.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a student enrollment form template I can copy?

Start from the field list on this page and rebuild it in whichever form tool your office already uses. Attain OS publishes a form at a link you share, so a paper version for the front desk has to be made separately.

Should the enrollment form ask for a birth certificate or immunization records?

List those documents in the introduction and ask families to bring or send them through the office's process. This form cannot take a file, so do not write a question that asks families to attach a copy.

Can a family change an enrollment after they submit it?

A family that spots a mistake after submitting should write to the office with the correction. Spell that route out in the introduction, and avoid promising a turnaround time the office has not agreed to.

Should every grade use the same enrollment form?

Use one core form and adjust it for transfer or returning students, instead of writing a separate form for every grade. Keep the placement question the same, so the office can compare applications across levels.

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Student enrollment form: collect what the office needs to place a student

Student legal name

Preferred name

Date of birth

Grade or class entering

Parent and guardian contacts

Parent or guardian name

Relationship to the student

Parent or guardian phone

Parent or guardian email

Home address

Emergency contact name

Emergency contact phone

Previous school

Health or allergy needs staff must act on

Accuracy

Transfer student

Returning student

Parent and guardian contacts

What is the student's Social Security number?

Are you able to pay the school's fees?

What is the family's immigration status?

Has the student been suspended before?

Check the grid at a set time each day

Export the list and check it by hand

Track missing documents as cases