Information for New Students

You will receive a letter from the Knox County Schools Transfer & Enrollment Office around the first of April.

Once you receive the letter, you MUST detach the bottom portion of the letter and send it back to the Transfer Office, either accepting or declining your transfer offer.  If you fail to send in your acceptance form by the designated deadline, your transfer seat will be relinquished to the next student on the wait list.

ALL information from the school will come through the email that was provided on the transfer application.  If that email needs to be changed for any reason, please contact the school directly.

RISING 9th GRADERS

If your child is a current Knox County middle school student, a school representative will be visiting your child's middle school in early April.  In this meeting, your child will receive a folder with all of the information needed for registration at the L&N STEM Academy.  They will walk through each paper in the meeting, and students will bring it home to review with parents/guardians.

If your child is NOT a current Knox County student, L&N STEM will host an evening meeting in April at the school to distribute folders and review all contents with parents and students.  This will include any private school students, homeschooled students, or any students receiving a regional transfer.  You will receive information about this meeting via the email you provided on your transfer application.

RISING 10-12 GRADERS

L&N STEM will host an evening meeting at the school to distribute folders and review all contents with parents and students.  This will include ALL students who are rising 10th, 11th, or 12th-graders who will be new to STEM in Fall 2026. You will receive information about this meeting via the email you provided on your transfer application.

If you are moving from outside of Tennessee and will not be in town for informational meetings, please inform the school directly, and we will mail your registration packet to you.

Please be prepared to provide the following documents to the school as part of your registration packet.  All of these forms will be provided to you in your child's registration folder.  We will be unable to enroll your child until this paperwork has been submitted: 

Student Enrollment Form

Copy of Student Birth Certificate

Updated Vaccination Records

Legal Parenting Plan (if applicable)

Student Medical Profile

Home Language Survey

KCS Student Media Release Form

Extended Campus Permission Form

Course Registration Worksheet 

Academic Override Request Form (only if you are requesting a class that differs from what your middle school teachers recommended

ALL NEW STUDENTS will submit their registration paperwork at the mandatory New Student Orientation in April

Please make plans to attend the L&N STEM New Student Orientation in late April.  This event will be held at the Sarah Simpson Professional Development Center, NOT at the L&N STEM Academy, and details will be shared with families with approved transfers.

Please bring your completed registration forms to the Orientation for submission.