Steps For Applying to Kickapoo Valley Forest and Field Schools

Enrollment Opens February 2, 2026

  1. Students who are currently enrolled in Kickapoo Valley Forest School (grades 4k, 5k, 1) do not need to submit a new application to attend.

  2. Students who are currently enrolled in Kickapoo Valley Forest School (grades 2, 3 and 4) will need to fill out a simple application to matriculate into the upper grades of Kickapoo Valley Field School.
    You can find that form here: Link will be live on February 2


  3. Students who are not currently enrolled in Forest or Field School should fill out one of these applications:
    Forest School (Grades 4K-2nd) Application for Admission: English- link will be live on February 2
    Forest School Solicitud para admisión: Español- link will be live on February 2


    Field School (Grades 3-5) Application for Admission: English- link will be live on February 2


    Field School Solicitud para admisión: Español- link will be live on February 2

  4. If you are not a resident of the La Farge School District, you must also complete the Wisconsin DPI Open Enrollment application.
    Form in English
    Form in Spanish
    Alternative Open Enrollment form (needed if not applying during Feb 1- April 30 window).


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“If a child happens to show that they know any fact about astronomy, or plants, or birds, or rocks, or history, that interests them and you, hush all the classes and encourage them to tell it so that all may hear. Then you have made your schoolroom like the world.”

 

   Ralph Waldo Emerson