Families New to Fairmont
For questions about registration and enrollment, please contact the Fairmont office by phone or email Principal Best.
Fairmont Elementary
724 Kearney St., El Cerrito, CA 94530
Main office phone: 510-231-1448
Heather Best, Principal: hbest@wccusd.net
Upcoming Opportunities to Visit Our School!
Thursday, April 18, 5:30-6:30pm: Open House
5:30pm New Families Tour - Meet at Front Entrance on Kearney St
Saturday, April 20, 9am-12pm: Earth Day School and Garden Clean Up
Sunday, May 5, 12-3pm: Block Party
Summer Playdates at Centennial Park (behind the school)
Saturday, June 15, 3-5pm
Sunday, July 21, 3-5pm
Connect with Us:
For updated information, please join our Incoming Families email list at bit.ly/3VwRedl
Get your volunteer badge now to be on campus this Fall:
Volunteering on campus is a great way to stay connected with your child's experience at a new school. Enter your email here to get started: https://beamentor.org/linkpages/mentorasp/specialprojects/wccusd/
All on-campus volunteers and field trip chaperones a required to get a volunteer badge through the district, which includes fingerprinting and a background check. It can take several weeks for the whole process, and the district offices close over the summer, so we advise getting your badge early so you are ready to go for August.
How to Register / Enroll:
Register at www.wccusd.net for the 2024-2025 school year which will begin in August 2024 (registration opened Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 9 AM)
Required documents (have pictures or PDFs of these ready to go!
Age Verification: (one of these) birth certificate, baptismal record, or passport
Immunization Record
Proof of address (two)
First document can be: PG&E, EBMUD, Garbage bill, lease agreement
Second proof can be: Bank statement, car insurance combined with car registration, credit card bill
Parent ID
All documents need to be submitted to complete registration. If you are missing documents, you will not be able to secure a spot. Please submit documents by uploading them during the application process.
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) students should be registered using the same system and documents above. Please check the district website for Transitional Kindergarten (TK) age requirements.
Registration tips
If you are having trouble uploading your documents during the application process, please take a CLEAR/FULL (actual size) picture of the documents and call or email Fairmont for information on how to send them by email. Please do not bring documents to the office in person.
The Fairmont office staff will send an email to let you know if your child has a space or not in the couple of weeks following enrollment.
Please do not call the office asking if your child has a space. Enrollment time is extremely busy for school staff and they will not be able to tell you what number your child is on the list.
Please make sure the email you are registering with is one you check regularly, both Fairmont and the district send out all information to those email addresses.
How to stay in touch with the PTA and other Fairmont Families
Fairmont Elementary PTA Email: pta@fairmontschool.org
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