Paperwork with School

Paperwork with the School
Different School districts may have slightly different requirements concerning the medical form to fill. Each school or city district have a different Medical form to be filled by your children pediatrician (on the school website). It is hard to guess from abroad in which area you are finally going to live. Even we had a form from different school and different city approved by czech pediatrician, we had no problems with our final school and need no changes or additional approving.

Schools are responsive just a little bit, they do not want to spend time with people from other areas, so firstly they are asking if you are resident within the school area. And until you live in their school district, schools are not very keen in answering your questions.

- medical form can be downloaded from web site and filled out and confirmed by doctor in your country

- list of mandatory vaccination is usually also available online - state dependent

- To have everything covered is convenient to have International Vaccination Certificate (Mezinárodní očkovací prukaz) for your kids before you leave. Make sure that all required vaccinations are there. Otherwise missing vaccination can lead to not accepting or refusing to have a child at public school even after a child was attending if for a half a year.

Generally vaccination is pretty similar to one in Czech republic. Required vaccination is by state, so it should be enough if you find the state requirements. In our case we did not need to get another vaccination, so the common vaccination schedule from CZ was sufficient.

If the child is not having some vaccination (which is possible is US), the child can not be accepted to public schools and have to attend private schools only (school fees required).

After having all of this, we had no problem with kids getting accepted to the public school.

After arrival and founding the rental house or appartment, we have just called the school within the school district and brought all above mentioned documents together with our ID and lease form to the school registration office and child was without any problem registered and was able to start school right away.