| Nettle Creek School Corporation |
| Bylaws & Policies |
5111 - ELIGIBILITY OF RESIDENT/NONRESIDENT STUDENTS
The School Board establishes the following residency policy for determining eligibility to attend the schools of this Corporation.
| A. | The Board will educate, tuition free, only those students who have legal settlement in the Corporation. Proof of legal settlement will be required for registration in the Corporation. | |
| B. | Where the legal settlement of a student cannot reasonably be determined and the student is being supported by and living with a person whose residence is within the School Corporation, the student may be enrolled without payment of tuition. If the parents are able to support the student and have placed him/her in the home of another person primarily for the purpose of attending school in this Corporation without establishing legal guardianship or custodianship as required by Indiana law, tuition shall be charged. | |
| C. | Foreign students participating in a foreign-exchange program approved by the State School Board and living with a resident host family will be admitted tuition free. | |
| D. | The Corporation shall provide a free education to those students who are considered by Federal law to be illegal aliens, if the student's parent or legal guardian has legal settlement within the Corporation, or considered to be homeless by criteria established by the State (see Policy 5111.01). | |
| E. | Students who have completed the eleventh grade and have changed legal settlement to another school corporation may complete the twelfth grade in this Corporation. | |
| F. | A married student living with a spouse or an emancipated minor shall be eligible to attend school without payment of tuition provided they reside in the Corporation. | |
| G. | Children of Joint Custody Decrees | |
| Children of joint custody decrees may attend school in this Corporation without the payment of tuition if one (1) parent has legal settlement in this Corporation and the student’s permanent and principal habitation during the school week is with the parent residing in the boundaries of this Corporation. | ||
| H. | Students whose parents do not have legal settlement within the Corporation but who present evidence that they will move into the Corporation within a short period of time may enroll in the schools of this Corporation as tuition students for the time not in residence. | |
| I. | Transfer Students | |
| The Corporation may accept nonresident students if a transfer is requested by a parent or adult student (eighteen (18) or older) and agreed to by the school corporation of legal settlement that will be responsible for payment of the transfer tuition. In making the decision to accept a transfer student, the Corporation will not discriminate on any grounds delineated in Policy 2260. Other nonresident students may transfer to this Corporation upon payment of transfer tuition. |
I.C. 20-18-2-11, 20-26-11-11, 20-33-2-12, 20-33-8-17
Plyer v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (2004)
Revised 10/26/05