Pre-Kindergarten Eligibility:

To enroll in Alief ISD’s Pre-Kindergarten Program, a child must be four-years-old on or before September 1 of that school year and meet at least one of the following requirements:

• is unable to speak or comprehend the English language (Student will be tested).
• is homeless
• is the child of an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States
• is the child of a member of the armed forces injured or killed while on active duty
• is or ever has been in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services following an adversary hearing
• has a household income that is at or is below the subsistence level as defined by the State Board of Education (Documentation of all sources of income to all members of the household must be submitted at the time of registration.
  • Acceptable documentation includes payroll check stubs for the most recent three months or the most recent federal income tax return.

Approval into Pre-Kindergarten is dependent on supporting documentation of requirements listed above.

Don't qualify based on the requirements above? We now offer tuition-based Pre-K!

Kindergarten Eligibility:

Children who reside in Alief ISD and are at least five-years-old on or before September 1 of that school year may attend Alief schools.

Programs of Choice Enrollment:

• Dual Language Program: Parents interested in enrolling their children in the district's Mandarin Immersion Program, available for qualifying students in Kindergarten, must register online at https://www.aliefisd.net/dual.
• Mandarin Immersion Program: Parents interested in enrolling their children in the district's Mandarin Immersion Program, available for qualifying students in Kindergarten, must register online at https://www.aliefisd.net/mandarin.

If you would like for your child to be considered for the Alief ISD Programs of Choice, you need to fill out the separate application:

• Dual Language Program - https://www.aliefisd.net/dual
• Mandarin Immersion Program - https://www.aliefisd.net/mandarin

Children currently in the Alief ISD JUMPSTART Program need to register using the application links above.

Children currently enrolled in Alief ISD, such as Pre-Kindergarten students currently attending one of our 24 elementary schools, do not need to register again.

Parents and guardians who are in need of technical assistance with their PowerSchool online registration account can reach out to PowerSchool directly. Technical issues may include:

• Account log-in
• Difficulty filling out the form and attaching files

Please note that some questions may be answered through the Help portion of the PowerSchool website.

For technical assistance with the registration platform used for the New Student Registration, please call PowerSchool’s help number at 1-866-752-6850.

To protect student and parent information, PowerSchool representatives will assist you with your account once they verify your identity.

To protect student and parent information, we cannot correct any application submissions via email.

For general assistance, including changing answer choices on a completed application, please contact the campus registrar of your child's zoned school or the Alief ISD Student Services Department at 281-988-3100 during normal business hours (Monday-Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.).

In lieu of bringing the documents to the school, applicants of new Alief ISD students can upload documents directly to the application.

For students who are new to Alief ISD and students who are returning to Alief ISD but did not attend Alief ISD schools last school year, as a part of the registration, you will be asked to upload the following documentation to the digital form:

• Student's birth certificate
• Student's immunization records
• Deed/Lease 
• Most recent utility bill and/or bank statement
• Student's Social Security Card 
• Parent's photo ID
• Student's most recent report card
• Additional Documents
  • Additional documents for incoming Pre-Kindergarten students who are qualifying by income may include the last 3 months' pay stubs and/or last year's income tax statement from everyone in the household

While parents/guardians will be able to submit the application without uploading the documents, we strongly recommend the upload of the necessary documents within the online form so that the application will be processed quickly.

During the application review, if the application for the new student is missing any required registration documents, the school will contact the parent/guardian directly.

For additional details on registration requirements, please visit the Student Services Department website.

 

Parents/guardians must submit an application for each new student attending Alief ISD schools during the upcoming school year.

Parents/guardians do not need to create a new account for each new student application. Within your account, you will be able to apply for multiple students. After completing the first student's application, on the Next Steps page, you will be given the opportunity to submit another student's application.

To make the registration process easier, when starting your second student's application, you will be able to import your answers from the previous application so that you do not have to fill out the majority of the form twice. For example, by using the import function, you will only need to fill out the parent/guardian contact information and emergency contact information once.

Those approved to attend a different school must still fill out this registration form. 

Upon completion of the online application, please submit the approved transfer form to the approved campus. You will need to contact the approved campus's registrar to determine the best way to submit the approved transfer form.

Those approved to attend a different school must still fill out this registration form. 

Upon completion of the online application, please submit the approved transfer form to the approved campus. You will need to contact the approved campus's registrar to determine the best way to submit the approved transfer form.

No. Prospective students who reside outside of Alief ISD boundary who are interested in attending Alief ISD schools must apply through the Limited Open Enrollment Program. That program and its separate application are on the LOE website at www.aliefisd.net/loe.

Once approved for Limited Open Enrollment, the student will be notified to fill out the enrollment application (New and Current Student Registration).

After submitting the enrollment application for the upcoming school year, we will begin reviewing your application. 

NEXT STEPS:

• Students new to Alief ISD or students who are returning to Alief ISD but did not attend Alief schools last school year: We will contact you to complete the registration process. If the application is incomplete, and registration documents are missing, the school will contact you directly. Please be on the lookout for a call or email from the school.

APPLY FOR BENEFITS/PROGRAMS:

Below are other applications you may be interested in. Please visit the corresponding website and fill out those applications separately:

• Free/Reduced Meals Application - https://www.aliefisd.net/mealapply
• SMART Tag Parent Application for Approved Bus Riders - https://www.aliefisd.net/smartparent
• Children Interacting After-School (CIA) After School Program Application for Select Sites - https://www.aliefisd.net/cia
• Spanish Dual Language Immersion Program and Mandarin Immersion Program Applications for Eligible Incoming Kindergarten Students - https://www.aliefisd.net/language