Questions and answers
Who will decide which school my child will go to?
Where can I view the submitted application?
How to check the application number and queue?
There is no line for first class.
If a parent has chosen a territorial school to educate their child, then the child’s enrollment in this educational organization is guaranteed. Enrollment of children in educational organizations in unassigned territories is carried out on free places.
All information on the submitted application is displayed in your personal account.
By what principle can you choose a school (educational organization) when registering an application for 1st grade?
What documents should I have in my hands at the time of electronic registration on the Portal?
To submit an electronic application you will need:
— passport details of one of the parents or legal representative; — passport details of one of the parents or legal representative; series and number of the child’s birth certificate; — passport details of one of the parents or legal representative; registration address of the child at the place of residence or stay in Moscow; — passport details of one of the parents or legal representative; SNILS (needed to register on mos.ru).
What happens after submitting an application to enroll a child in 1st grade?
I do not agree with the list of schools on the mandatory list. Who can I file a complaint with?
When does the acceptance of applications for admission to 1st grade begin?
How to submit an application if the child’s birth certificate is of a foreign origin?
I need to enroll my child in 1st grade. My child and I are registered in the new building. What to do?
Alert: “Your application cannot be registered due to the fact that you have not selected any educational institution in your territorial affiliation.”
In the electronic application, you must select at least one school in the assigned territory; you can select three schools in total. Territorial assignment is carried out in accordance with the order of the Department of Education of the city of Moscow dated December 4, 2015 No. 3511. If a school is not assigned to your address in this order, you should contact the Public Information Center of the Department of Education and Science of the city of Moscow (telephone: 8 (495 ) 530-71-71; email).
If a school is assigned to your address, but is not listed on the portal, please report this to the Portal Support Service.
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If registration is temporary
Will they take a child with a temporary certificate? A temporary stamp for admission is exactly the option that is most acceptable and has the following properties:
- does not in any way affect the availability of permanent registration;
- getting it is not difficult;
- allows you to fully exercise your rights.
Having confirmation of registration, even temporary, parents will be guaranteed to have their child enrolled in studies before July 1st.
How to get a temporary certificate for a child to study?
Temporary registration is provided for cases of not permanent residence, but stay as a guest, for treatment, at a resort, or on a business trip; for a period of time not exceeding 90 days , nothing needs to be done, but for those who will stay longer, a temporary registration is needed.
This is a general rule, but for children under the age of 14 there are some nuances: for example, the impossibility of being registered without parents , even if a grandmother or aunt offers their shelter, nothing will work out.
This means that in the area of interest you need to try to find relatives or at least acquaintances who have the opportunity and desire to register one of the parents and a young child.
To register adults, you need to get permission from the property owner ; for children this is unnecessary - they will be registered with mom or dad without any problems.
To issue a certificate , mom or dad needs:
- come to the Federal Migration Service or to the passport officer of the management company, housing cooperative, etc. at the place of desired stay together with the owner of the home;
- write an application on your own behalf and on behalf of the child if he is under 14 years old;
- provide your passport, the child’s birth certificate;
- present the written consent of the property owner;
- have a rental agreement, social lease, lease or documents for the right to own housing.
The passport officer will immediately check all the papers and may refuse if the photo in the parent’s passport is not pasted in within the period specified by law or if he finds other shortcomings. If everything is in order, then after verification the documents will be processed and they will announce when to come for a positive result.
If a minor already has a passport, then he fills out the application form himself, and parents will not have to obtain a temporary stamp for the sake of studying at the address.
How to transfer a child to another school
How to transfer a child to another school?
To transfer a child from one school to another, you must register an electronic application for admission to the new school before expulsion.
Parents or legal representatives of minor children can do this online at mos.ru. They can refuse admission to a new school only because there are no available places. Please note: Children have priority when enrolling in the primary grades of the school where their siblings attend.
How to submit an electronic application?
To submit an electronic application online at mos.ru, you will need:
What happens after submitting an application?
After registering an electronic application, within 5 working days you will receive a notification with information about the conditions of admission, a list of required documents and the deadlines for their submission to the school, or a notification of refusal due to lack of free places.
As soon as the new school reports that the child is enrolled, you can go to the previous school for expulsion.
What documents should I take from my old school?
At the old school, write a letter of expulsion for your child and pick up:
After that, visit the new school.
What documents should I bring to my new school?
Bring the following documents to your new school:
Foreign citizens and stateless persons additionally need to submit:
Within 7 working days after receiving the documents, the child will be enrolled in school.
All foreign documents must be submitted together with a notarized translation into Russian.
What should I do if my child needs special educational conditions?
If your child needs special educational conditions, make an appointment with the Central Psychological, Medical and Pedagogical Commission of Moscow (CPMPK) online on the official website of the Moscow Mayor mos.ru. For this you will need:
You can familiarize yourself with the complete list of documents required for submission to the Center for Medical Examinations when filling out the interactive form. After the child has been examined at the Center for Medical Education, you will need to obtain the original report of the commission and submit it to the educational organization. You can ask questions of interest to the specialists of the Center for Medical and Practical Training by calling the multi-channel telephone number: +7.
I still have questions, where should I go?
If you have any questions, please contact the Public Information Center about the provision of educational services of the Moscow Department of Education and Science:
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Expert opinion: what problems do parents face?
Alexander Milkus, Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation for conducting an independent assessment of the quality of the conditions for carrying out educational activities, Deputy Chairman of the Public Council under the Department of Education and Science of Moscow:
“The main problem remains the same - if a school can take 80 first-graders, but receives 180 applications, there will not be enough places for everyone. Then how to choose those who will ultimately be enrolled? For the most part, schools enroll those who managed to submit documents in the first rows. But if previously parents actually spent the night on the threshold of the school they needed in order to be the first to enter after opening and enroll, recently something similar has been happening on the official websites of schools and the government services portal. And if at the moment when you need to submit an application, you experience interruptions in the Internet, you may lose time. It turns out that the success of a child’s enrollment in school depends on chance.
The new rules try to solve this problem, as well as the issue with beneficiaries. Benefits apply to children whose older brothers and sisters are already studying at a particular school. Then the younger ones are automatically enrolled there. Knowing this, parents can bring documents not on April 1, but later. As a result, several children who were already enrolled may fall off the list because their places went to beneficiaries. Whether a child is enrolled or not becomes known only at the beginning of July, when school is closed. And if it turns out that you are out of work, what should you do? The Ministry of Education tells us: parents need to contact the local education committee or the regional ministry to enroll their child in a school where there are free places.
But the whole problem is that parents wanted to send their child to one school, but are forced to send them to another. This is especially true for well-known schools, where there are always not enough places. In order to get into some educational institutions, parents are ready to buy registration closer to them. This way they will have the right to be enrolled on a territorial basis.”
How to transfer a child to another school
If you change your place of residence or things don’t work out in class
I asked my friends and found out that transferring a child to a good school is not easy. In St. Petersburg, children are accepted into the first grade by registration, but they can only get into other classes if there are empty seats. Strong schools may have their own admission criteria.
As a result, we transferred our son very successfully and have no regrets. Although we were afraid that the child would have difficulty adapting to the new school. I’ll tell you how everything happens in the process of transferring from one school to another and what the nuances are.
How the process works
I will write how everything happens, using the example of St. Petersburg. In other regions things may be a little different.
First grade in St. Petersburg is enrolled in three waves:
Residence is determined by the child's registration, permanent or temporary. Our son entered the first grade with registration, and we submitted documents to the second wave as “registered”. We had an ordinary yard school.
Once a child has been enrolled in a school, he can be transferred to another school only if there are free places. A territorial criterion, for example when a family has moved to another area and the child is required to be taken to the nearest “registered” school, no longer works.
But some categories of families also have a preferential right to enroll their children in schools. For example, military personnel whose place of service has changed can transfer their children to the educational organizations closest to the new place of military service or residence. They are required to be taken into schools or kindergartens first.
To transfer, parents must submit an application for admission to the new school. This can be done through the MFC, the government services portal or in person. After this, the school must send or issue a document within a month that it is ready to accept the child. People call it an “invitation”. You need to come to school with it and bring documents for enrollment. If the school has no places, it may refuse to take the child and not issue an invitation.
What is the need?
Will my child be allowed to study without a registration certificate? Is the document required?
Law No. 5242-I defines the procedure for admitting children to educational institutions and there is no requirement for registration .
But with rare exceptions, when submitting documents, they still ask their potential student for a certificate confirming that he lives there.
The law does not provide for the mandatory provision of paper, nor does it provide for refusal to receive an education due to the lack of such a document. They have the right not to enroll their child as a student for only one reason - when there really are no places .
In practice, they first recruit children who live in a given area , and only then, when there are no locals willing, can everyone else be enrolled if there are free places.
To the question whether registration is required for admission, the answer by law is clear: no, it is not mandatory, but desirable.
You can find out how to fill out an application to register a child at a residence address, issue a certificate and receive a certificate from our articles.
What you need to remember
Electronic diary. At my old school, I was connected to my son’s electronic diary. As soon as I took the documents, they disconnected me. To join the new school, I submitted an application through the government services website and a day later I went in person to the lyceum’s accountant to sign the papers. The diary started working on the second day of training.
Without an electronic diary, it would have been difficult, since the son did not yet know the phone numbers of his new classmates - there would have been no one to ask or clarify something about his studies.
Travel card. Students in St. Petersburg can buy a contactless electronic travel pass - BEPC - for all types of transport at a discounted price. But to do this, you need to present your student ID and birth certificate at the metro ticket office for the first time. In addition, the child must be in the electronic database, registers for which schools submit monthly.
How much time and money did I spend transferring my child to a new school?
I started looking at a new school in September 2021, and my son officially transferred at the end of December. He went to the new lyceum immediately after the 2021 New Year holidays.
The longest part of this process is finding a school and finding out about available places and conditions. If you try, you can transfer documents from school to school even in a day.
I think we are lucky because it is not so easy to find a place in a good school. I know those who came to the desired school at the end of August and transferred children the day before because there were free places. And our housemates waited six months for a place at the school where they wanted to transfer their child.
In addition, I purchased new notebooks and a diary, as well as covers, since the old ones were already worn out by that time. In English, the class used workbooks and problem books. I bought them myself online.
In fine art and technology at the old school, everything was purchased from us by the parent committee for the entire class. For example, during drawing, the teacher gave everyone a sheet of paper, and the paints were alone on the desk. In the new school, everyone had their own. So I bought everything myself: new paints and gouache, an album, brushes, glue, colored paper and cardboard. My son didn't use up most of it before the end of the year, so we took the rest home.
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Procedure for transferring to another school
According to Article 61 of the Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”, you can change schools at any time at the request of the parents or the child, regardless of the reasons.
To do this, you need to drop out of your old school and apply to a new school.
In the application for expulsion by transfer, you must indicate the child’s last name, first name, patronymic and date of birth, class and field of study (if any), as well as the name of the school where the student plans to transfer. If the reason for the transfer is relocation, then the name of the locality is sufficient.
Within three days, the school must issue an act of expulsion of the student. Parents will be provided with a personal file, medical record and documents about the student’s current progress. It is important to ensure that the documents bear the school’s seal and the signature of an authorized person. Also, in a new place, a certificate of training in a specific educational organization may be useful. It can be requested upon deduction.
You can apply for enrollment in a new school online at mos.ru or the State Services website. To transfer to another school you will need a package of documents:
The new educational organization must review the application and make a decision on enrollment within three days.
If parents change their minds and decide to return their child to their previous school, they can be reinstated within five years, subject to availability, but not before the end of the school year or semester in which the child was expelled.
How to apply for admission to 1st grade electronically
- Go to
- Type in the search bar “Enrollment in 1st grade”
- Go to the service page “Enrollment in the 1st grade of the next academic year”
- Click the “Submit Application” button
- Log in to the system using your login and password
- Fill out the electronic application form and click the “Submit” button
- Make sure that the application is accepted by the system. Changes in status for the service are displayed in your personal account on the portal and are sent to the email specified in the application
- Wait for the decision on enrollment or refusal, bring original documents to school
If you registered your child at the first stage, the result will be known no earlier than July 3, 2021: first, the school collects all applications, and then issues orders. If the application was submitted at the second stage, the result will become known no earlier than five working days.
Transfer to online school
The number of places in public schools is limited. And private educational institutions are not always located within walking distance. Thanks to online schools, you can receive high-quality knowledge from anywhere in the world.
To transfer to an online school, you need to change your full-time education to family or part-time and attach to an educational organization to pass certifications.
The transition to family education is carried out in four stages:
The transition to distance learning is carried out by agreement with the school administration. Parents write an application addressed to the director, and if the local regulations of the organization do not prohibit correspondence, an order is issued to change the form of education. After this, you can sign an agreement with the online school and study at home.
The training itself takes place on the online school platform. For example, in an online school, studying consists of webinars with a teacher, interactive homework, tests to control knowledge and extracurricular activities.
Transfer to evening school
As a rule, those who transfer to evening school are those who want to continue schooling in adulthood, have the opportunity to combine knowledge acquisition with work, and subsequently enter a university.
Getting an education at an evening school is not an independent form of education, but only one of the formats for organizing the educational process. Legally, such students are in full-time, part-time or part-time education.
You can transfer to an evening school if you already have a certificate of basic general education or if you are over 15 years old. The algorithm for transferring to evening school is the same as to regular school. The only difference is that you need to meet the specified criteria, and you need to add a ninth grade certificate to the package of documents.
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How not to make a mistake when choosing a school for your child?
How not to make a mistake with your choice? This is a topic for a separate big conversation. Let us briefly note that there are several versions of ratings of metropolitan schools. One of them is prepared annually, shortly before the “Day of Knowledge,” by the Moscow Department of Education. This ranking includes the 400 best schools in our city. Selection criteria are the level of students’ diagnostic work, the results of the Unified State Exam and other exams, the results of schoolchildren’s participation in the All-Russian and Moscow Olympiads and the prizes won there.
The rules for compiling the rating are sometimes revised; for example, in the 2018/2019 academic year, the composition of its top group changed significantly due to an increase in the “specific weight” of such a parameter as the number of students in a particular school. Many former leaders, distinguished by the professionalism of teachers and a high level of training, have lost their positions, so we advise you to study not only the most recent rating, but also the dynamics of its changes over the past few years. Then your choice will be objective.
