MORGANTOWN — If your kid is ready for kindergarten, you have until April 15 to make it official in Monongalia County Schools.
Visit https://www.boe.mono.k12.wv.us/ for the link that will take you to the online registration form.
Children must be 5 on or before June 30 to be eligible for enrollment next fall. Contact Nancy Miller at 304-291-9210, extension 1770, if need help with the registration or don’t have computer access.
Mon’s youngest students in past school years had traditionally rounded the kindergarten curve quicker than a lot of their kid-peers across the nation.
That’s because the local district has been doing the same, nationally.
Mon’s school system two years ago was ranked sixth in the country for its efforts in getting the youngest of its students ready for classrooms to come.
The Mountain State earned that charting in the annual study by the National Institute for Early Education Research. The 2024 numbers are the most recent culled by the institute.
The District of Columbia topped the list that year, with Florida and Oklahoma rounding the top three.
Hawaii was last on the list, among the 45 states offering pre-kindergarten services at the time of the study.
Deputy Schools Superintendent Donna Talerico, said West Virginia’s good grade in that class was no surprise.
The local district was an early adapter of the universal pre-kindergarten model that is now the early education standard across the nation, said Talerico, who began her career in education as an elementary school teacher.
“I don’t want to say we’re an outlier, but that’s what we are.”
