How to transfer your children to a new school in Selangor

After over 7 months of sending our kids back and forth between Semenyih and Seri Kembangan, we finally found a suitable and much closer school for them right here in Bangi. I can’t tell you which school it is for privacy and security reasons but suffice to say this one is only 8 kilometers or 15 minutes drive from our home compared to 45 minutes (of rushing) for the previous one. It is a relatively obscure school and not very popular compared to a few other elite or established schools in town but any school much nearer to home will do for us for now. Plus the fact that there’s a proper nursery/transit and religious school just nearby also helps. So here’s how you go about changing schools for your kids within the state of Selangor.



First things first, you need to visit the office of your old school and bring along a few basic documents including copies of your marriage certificate, child birth certificate, their parent identity cards, any one of your utility bills* with your or your spouse’s name on it and your child’s examination result if they have sat for one. You will then hand over all those documents to the clerk and fill up the P.U (A) 275 forms, 3 copies for each children. This form will need to be signed by the headmaster of the school so bear in mind it might take a day or two for he/she to do so.

Once the headmaster signs the P.U (A) 275 form, you will have to bring that and all the relevant documents that I mentioned earlier to the district education office (PPD) where the new school is located. In my case it’s the Hulu Langat education office in Kajang. There the clerk and officers will review your application and decide whether to approve or reject them. I can only speculate here but some of the reasons for rejection is the school that you are applying to transfer is really popular and the classes are already full (pretty common for urban schools in Selangor/KL) or the new school is too far away from your current address. As for me while I do live at a Semenyih address, the new school that I’m transferring my kids to are pretty near in distance hence they have no valid reason to reject my application. But to be honest, I was worried at first thinking that they might insist that I register at S.K Semenyih or S.K Rinching Hilir which are also close by but fortunately for me that did not happen. We’d rather not send our kids to S.K Semenyih because it’s a bit further away and does not coincide with the route we’re taking to work. As for S.K Rinching Hilir, it is a quaint little school tucked in the middle of Rinching Hilir village but too bad, there’s no registered nursery or transit point to leave our children at nearby plus there’s absolutely zero school bus to ferry our kids after school.

Next after you get your approval from the PPD, go back to your old school to submit the approved forms and collect your child’s myriad school records - which include academic, co-curriculum and health records. If the old school owes you any certificates of achievement, demand those as well before you leave for good. Other than that, you will also need to carry along all the text books from your old school to the new one. You will have exactly 14 days from the date of the transfer approval to register your kids to the new school or the transfer will automatically be cancelled.

Finally when you get all your documents, forms and records ready, you head on to the new school to register your child. Ideally you should go to the new school office before your children officially start school so that the clerk and teacher can do all the necessary preparations (like deciding which class to put them in). You can pick any dates within the 14 days to send your child to the new school but we chose the first Monday after the last week at the old school so that they don’t miss any classes or lessons.

So that’s basically the steps you will have to take to switch your children’s school. Might sound like a lot of work but lucky for us, all the parties involved did their best to make the process as smooth as possible. All in all it took us only 3 days to finish everything and we had to take 2 days off from work to settle everything. As of today our children starts their first day at the new school. Sure it will take some time for them to adjust to a new surrounding, make new friends but I’m sure they will do just fine.


*if you are renting, you will need to submit a tenancy agreement with your names on it.