Education Law § 3242 · Part 2. School Census
School census in school districts
Text — Law content up to date as of October 2, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 3242. School census in school districts. The trustees or board of education of every school district may cause a census to be taken of all children between birth and eighteen years of age, including all such facts and information as are required in the census provided for in section thirty-two hundred forty-one of this part. Such census shall be prepared biennially for children between ages five and eighteen who are entitled to attend the public schools without payment of tuition in duplicate in their respective school districts, and one copy thereof filed with the teacher or principal and the other copy filed with the district superintendent or superintendent on or before the fifteenth day of October. For pre-school students from birth to five years of age, such census may be prepared and filed biennially on or before the fifteenth day of October. Such census shall include the reports and information required from cities as provided in section thirty-two hundred forty-one of this part. All information regarding a student with a disability under the age of twenty-one years shall be filed annually with the superintendent of the board of cooperative educational services of which said district may be a part.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of October 2, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/EDN3242
- Text hash
- sha256 356e5d4388c6bb18983d4a197c837bb88d726bb2927022fe79cab1fa9c1e8e5d
- Composed by
- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.