5113.01 - ADMISSION OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATING UNDER INTRA-DISTRICT OPEN-ENROLLMENT

Upper Arlington City School District

Administrative Guidelines

5113.01 - ADMISSION OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATING UNDER INTRA-DISTRICT OPEN-ENROLLMENT

All students enrolled in the District are assigned to the school providing the regular or special education program serving their attendance area. Students wishing to attend a different school must complete and submit an intra-district enrollment request form in accordance with the following provisions.

	A.	On or before March 1st of each school year, the Executive Director of Business Services shall inform the general public and the parent(s)/guardian(s) of each student enrolled in the District of the intra-district open enrollment policy and application procedures.
	B.	Application forms shall be available upon request in the office of the Executive Director of Business Services, as well as the office of the principal in each of the schools.
	C.	Application forms must be completed by the parent(s)/guardian(s) and submitted to the office of the Executive Director of Business Services on or before June 1st to ensure timely consideration. Preferential consideration will be given to those applicants with documented childcare needs and to those students who have siblings already attending the school to which they are requesting assignment. All other applications received on or before June 1st will be processed using a lottery system. Applications received after June 1st will be added (on a first-received, first-served basis) to the list generated by the lottery.
	D.	Requests to be assigned to a school, other than the one serving a student’s attendance area, will be considered provided that:

		1.	the number of students already assigned to the appropriate grade level and program in the receiving school will allow for a maximum class size of two (2) student less than the following upper limits:
			Kindergarten = 22
			Grades 1 & 2 = 22
			Grades 3 – 5 = 25
			Grades 6 – 8 = 25
		2.	an appropriate racial balance among schools within the District is maintained.
		3.	the number of students already assigned to a building does not exceed that for which its core facilities (libraries, cafeterias, gymnasiums, etc.) are designed to support.

	E.	To prevent any disruption of a student’s education and to maintain continuity, students accepted for the voluntary transfer program will remain in the new school for the entire school year. Exceptions to this may be considered with the approval of the Superintendent.
	F.	The student, once reassigned, will remain in the elementary or middle school of choice until completion of that school’s program. For those schools in which both informal and contemporary options are offered, open enrollment students must reapply for consideration to change the option in which they are enrolled. Elementary school students promoted or assigned to middle school will be automatically assigned to the middle school serving the elementary school to which they had been reassigned. In the event the parent/guardian requests a transfer back to the home school (elementary or middle school) the parent/guardian must submit an application to transfer, subject to the dates of this regulation. Such applications will be given preferential consideration.
	G.	Parents/Guardians, principals and the Director of Transportation Services shall be notified by the Executive Director of Business Services of the applicant’s acceptance or rejection no later than June 15th. Those not accepted at that time shall be placed on a waiting list that will remain active until the end of the second week of August of that calendar year.
	H.	The Board of Education may require a student receiving special education services to attend school where the services described in the students IEP are available.
	I.	Students who are assigned to a school in accordance with this regulation shall be provided transportation if they are transported privately to and from designated drop-off/pick-up centers. These centers will be designated by the Director of Transportation and will be communicated prior to the beginning of school.
	J.	Students with discipline problems may be denied for intra-district transfer only if they have been suspended or expelled for ten (10) consecutive days or more in the semester for which admission is sought or in the immediately preceding semester.
	K.	Requests for reconsideration of decisions related to this regulation are to be directed to the Superintendent. The final decision for all intra-district enrollment transfer requests and reassignments for other educational reasons rests with the Superintendent.

See Form 5113.01 F1

Revised 12/18/07