2020                      7140

Students

 

SUBJECT:    SCHOOL CENSUS

Although not required by law, the District will take a census of all children from birth to 18 years of age. Census data will be reported as required by law.

The census must indicate the names of all children between birth and 18 years of age, and of children with disabilities between birth and 21 years of age; their respective residences by street and number; the day of the month and the year of their birth; the names of the parents or persons in parental relation to them; information relating to physical or mental disabilities, to illiteracy, to employment, and to the enforcement of the law relating to child labor and compulsory education as the State Education Department (SED) and the Board require; and also further information as the Board may require.

On written request and in the form as prescribed by the Commissioner of Education, the Board will provide to the Commissioner a report containing the names, ages, and addresses of those children who are blind or deaf, and those children having serious physical or mental disabilities. Additionally, this report will further indicate whether these children are being educated within the public schools of the District or, if they are not, where education is being furnished to them.

Parents or persons in parental relation to those children within the prescribed census age ranges must make reports as the Board requires, including, but not limited to, providing two weeks before the child reaches compulsory school age, the name of the child; the child’s residence; the name of the person or persons in parental relation to the child; the name and location of the school to which the child will have been or will be sent as a student; and other information as required by law or as the Board may require.

A parent, guardian or other person having under his or her control or charge a child between birth and 18 years of age who withholds or refuses to give information in his or her possession relating to this census data as required by law pertaining to the child; or, in the alternative, gives false information in relation to census data, will be liable to and punished by a fine or imprisonment as established by law.

Count of Immigrant Children and Youth

The District is required to count the number of “immigrant children and youth” enrolled in the public and nonpublic schools in the geographic area under the jurisdiction of, or served by, the District. The results of this count have important implications for the receipt of supplemental federal funds to the District for services to recently arrived immigrant children and youth.

For purposes of this count, the term “immigrant children and youth” will include those individuals who:

a) Are ages three through 21;

b) Were not born in any state or from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and

c) Have not been attending schools in any one or more States for more than three full academic years.

Each nonpublic school within District boundaries will report its data to the District. It is the responsibility of the District to report its immigrant count as well as the counts for all nonpublic schools within its jurisdiction.

In accordance with law, the District will conduct its survey and submit the information electronically to the SED by the specified deadline date. The District must also maintain on file a list of the immigrant students counted, their countries of origin, dates of arrival, and the public or nonpublic school in which they are registered as well as copies of the letter to each of the nonpublic schools in its jurisdiction regarding the count.

 

• 20 USC § 6811
• Education Law §§ 3240-3243 and 4402(1)(a)
• 8 NYCRR § 200.2(a)

NOTE:      Refer also to Policy

• #7650 — Identification and Register of Children with Disabilities  (Child Find)

Adopted:  8/24/11

Revised:  9/22/20