N.Y. Education Law § 3242: School census in school districts

§ 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.