ROCS Enrollment 2024-2025

Kansas regulations now require that we provide all parents with notice of our written policies regarding Emergency Safety Interventions. We will provide a copy of the district policy at any time upon request. To view the Emergency Safety Intervention document, please click here. For the Spanish document, please click here.

For purposes of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Rocket Online Schools and USD 340 designates the following information contained in educational records as directory information, which may be disclosed for any purpose without your prior consent. This information would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed. The following information is considered directory information: name, address, telephone number, electronic mail address, photograph (including video and the internet), date and place of birth, major field of study, dates of attendance, attendance center, grade level enrollment status (e.g. undergraduate or graduate; full-time or part-time), participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams, degrees, honors and awards received, and class designation. In addition, the district and/or any of it employees or agents may use the student's likeness, or voice, or all to be recorded and exhibited as still photographs, transparencies, motion pictures, television, videotape recordings or other similar media, including Internet applications. The custodian of records shall make student recruiting information (name, address and telephone listing) available to military recruiters and post-secondary institutions unless parents or eligible students request the information not be released without written consent. You have a right to refuse to permit the designation of any or all of the above information as directory information, video and still photograph information, or student recruiting information. If you refuse, you must file written notification to this effect with Rocket Online Schools and USD 340 at the District Office, 74th Street, PO Box 267 Meriden, Kansas 66512 on or before August 31, 2022. If a written refusal is not filed, Rocket Online School and USD 340 assumes you have no objection to the release of the directory information or recruiting information designated.

I hereby give permission for my child to participate in the following surveys:

I support the district's effort to conserve resources by consenting to receive electronic communication in lieu of paper progress reports, grade cards, etc.

In accordance with the Student Data Privacy Act and board policy IDAE, student data submitted to or maintained in a statewide longitudinal data system may only be disclosed as follows. Such data may be disclosed to: The authorized personnel of an educational agency or the state board of regents who require disclosures to perform assigned duties; and the student and the parent or legal guardian of the student, provided the data pertains solely to the student. Student data may be disclosed to authorized personnel of any state agency, or to a service provider of a state agency, educational agency, or school performing instruction, assessment, or longitudinal reporting, provided a data-sharing agreement between the educational agency and other state agency or service provider provides the following: purpose, scope and duration of the data-sharing agreement; recipient of student data use such information solely for the purposes specified in agreement; recipient shall comply with data access, use, and security restrictions specifically described in agreement; and student data shall be destroyed when no longer necessary for purposes of the data-sharing agreement or upon expiration of the agreement, whichever occurs first. A service provider engaged to perform a function of instruction may be allowed to retain student transcripts as required by applicable laws and rules and regulations.Unless an adult student or parent or guardian of a minor student provides written consent to disclose personally identifiable student data, student data may only be disclosed to a governmental entity not specified above or any public or private audit and evaluation or research organization if the data is aggregate data. Aggregate data means data collected or reported at the group, cohort, or institutional level and which contains no personally identifiable student data. The district may disclose: Student directory information when necessary and the student's parent or legal guardian has consented in writing; directory information to an enhancement vendor providing photography services, class ring services, yearbook publishing services, memorabilia services , or similar services; any information requiring disclosure pursuant to state statutes; student data pursuant to any lawful subpoena or court order directing such disclosure; and student data to a public or private postsecondary educational institution for purposes of application or admission of a student to such postsecondary educational institution with the student's written consent.