Welcome to McKinley-Thatcher Elementary School’s Online Registration for the 2023-2024 school year! Please read the following information carefully and complete all registration tasks to ensure that your family has a smooth start to the year.
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Please complete each registration step below. Our front office staff are here to assist you in any way, so please call us at (720) 424-5600 if you have questions or need in-person help!
If you live in our school’s neighborhood boundary zone but did not complete a SchoolChoice application, please call us at (720) 424-5600 so that we may help you begin the enrollment process.
If you aren’t sure whether you live in our boundary zone, please refer to the SchoolFinder tool.
To access UPK funding for ECE-4 at DPS, families with incoming ECE-4 students must complete both a DPS SchoolChoice application and the UPK application on the State of Colorado website.
If you have matched with McKinley-Thatcher through your UPK application but have not yet completed a SchoolChoice application, please do so ASAP. Families may complete the SchoolChoice application here.
If you have completed your DPS Online Registration through Parent Portal already, thank you! However, please note that you must ALSO complete the additional steps below.
Using a Parent Portal account, families will verify that the information in their students’ school records is correct. If you completed this step earlier in the summer, you do not need to do it again. If you can’t remember if you’ve already completed this step, please call us at (720) 424-5600.
To begin your Online Registration, log into Parent Portal here, click on “See All Apps,” then click on “Online Registration.”
The online registration process gives families the opportunity to verify or update their student’s household and other information.
If your child’s immunization record has changed since last school year, or if your child is new to McKinley-Thatcher, please upload their immunization record or exemption.
In order to submit your student’s online registration, please be sure to click both the red “SUBMIT” button and the smaller “Confirm” button (see screenshot below!). Families will receive an email notification that your online registration has been completed.
Complete the 2023-2024 You Benefit! form to help our school access all available federal funds to cover the cost of meals and other nutritional programs for students. All household income information provided through this form is strictly confidential and protected by law. Only one form is required for all children in the household. Immigration, migrant, citizenship or refugee status is not required when completing the form.
All students in DPS have access to free healthy, nutritious school meals this school year thanks to the Healthy School Meals for All program approved by Colorado voters! While meals will be provided for free to all DPS students through Healthy School Meals for All, families still need to complete the You Benefit! application form to ensure DPS gets full access to available federal funding for our school.
To complete the You Benefit! application, visit www.myschoolapps.com and follow the instructions on the website. You will need your student’s DPS ID number and, if you have one, your SNAP number to complete this application. Please call our office at (720) 424-5600 or use the DPS ID Retrieval Tool to find your student’s ID number.
McKinley-Thatcher asks that each kindergarten through 5th grade student pay a $50 supply fee and a $25 field trip fee during registration. ECE students are asked to pay a $50 supply fee. Teachers use this money to buy supplies to distribute to all students and to pay for field trips throughout the year.
Families may pay their school fees through our online payment website, MySchoolBucks.com. Log into MySchoolBucks.com using your Parent Portal username and password or access the site by clicking the MySchoolBucks link in Parent Portal.
Families in need of financial assistance to pay their school fee or to purchase backpacks and school clothes may complete this Google form to request help.
Please review our school-specific registration information below.
New for the 2023-2024 school year, McKinley-Thatcher’s first three days of school are HALF DAYS for assessment purposes! This means that all students in kindergarten through 5th grade will have an assessment meeting with their teacher on the afternoon of August 21, 22, or 23.
ECE students will also follow a half day schedule, but will not have assessment appointments.
For students who ride our school bus, the bus will pick up at 11:30am on August 21, 22, and 23.
Our Discovery Link (DL) program will offer half-day care from 11:30am to 6:00pm for registered ECE through 5th grade students on Monday, August 21, Tuesday, August 22, and Wednesday, August 23. Discovery Link programming takes place in our cafeteria.
Discovery Link does not offer drop-in care, so families must register on the Discovery Link website and add the half days to their child’s schedule in advance.
ECE families: Discovery Link is not offering morning care on Monday, August 21, but your ECE student may attend the DL program from 11:30am to 6:00pm on this day. If you’d like your ECE student to attend, please bring them to the front door of our building at 11:30am.
All students in kindergarten through 5th grade will also have an assessment meeting with their teacher on the afternoon of August 21, 22, or 23. We’ll send out a sign-up form soon for assessment appointments.
OPTIONAL for New Students: Complete Our “New Student Information” Form
Help us get to know your new McKinley student by completing our New Student Information form here.
OPTIONAL: Walk Home / Public Transit Permission Form
if your student will be walking or taking public transit home from school unaccompanied, please complete our “Walk Home / Public Transit” permission form here. Students will not be allowed to walk or take RTD home without a completed form.
OPTIONAL: Discovery Link After-School Care
Visit the Discovery Link website to learn about and register for our after-school care program for ECE-4 through 5th grade students. After-school care runs daily from 2:30pm to 6:00pm. For assistance, contact Discovery Link directly at (720) 423-1781 or discovery_link@dpsk12.org.
OPTIONAL: Sign Up for PTA News & Updates
Sign up here to receive news and information from our Parent/Teacher Association (PTA) and visit PTA’s page on our school website to learn more about the many ways they support our school.
ECE-4 families are required by the Colorado Department of Education to complete additional registration forms before they can begin school. If you do not have an ECE student, please skip this step!
To access UPK funding for ECE-4 at DPS, families with incoming ECE-4 students must complete both a DPS SchoolChoice application and the UPK application on the State of Colorado website.
If you have matched with McKinley-Thatcher through your UPK application but have not yet completed a SchoolChoice application, please do so as soon as possible. Families may complete the SchoolChoice application here.
ECE-Specific Registration Forms
ECE-Specific Welcome Information (previously shared in May 2023)