BOUNDARIES AND STUDENT ENROLLMENT

By contract and board philosophy, we are committed to maintain relatively equal enrollments by grade level throughout the district.

To maintain equal enrollments, students who enroll after the beginning of school may be placed in the school and class with the smallest enrollment.

When district enrollment is great enough, an additional section of a particular grade is created.
- The new section is located in a building capable of providing the adequate space.
- Students are asked to move to the new section from enrollment list (s) of school (s) that have the highest enrollments.
- If there aren't enough voluntary students to fill the new class, the students will be assigned by the Assistant Superintendent with advice from building principals.
- Students contacted to transfer or to be assigned are selected from those students already eligible to be transported by bus.

Once a family volunteers or is assigned by district request to a new attendance center, the district honors their new situation and, unless circumstances become unique, they will not be asked to move again.

If after the first year of attending a "new" attendance center as a result of a request or assignment by the district, the student wishes to return to his/her normally assigned center, every effort will be made to allow that student to return. (Assuming the class size will support it and no one else would be asked to move.)

Students, who after attending school in their required attendance center move from that attendance center boundary area to another attendance center boundary area, may remain in their original school if the enrollment is not too great. However, if the class enrollment becomes great enough for students to be reassigned to another building, those students living outside the regular boundaries will be the first to be transferred.

On initial enrollment, students will enroll in the attendance center that is within the boundaries that they live. (Exception to this rule is if the new enrollee has a brother or sister (currently) enrolled in an out of boundary attendance center, he/she may enroll in the same school).

If a parent requests that their child attend an attendance center out of their boundary lines, he/she may make written request to the building principal after registering in their original school. The request will state the reasons for the requested change.

The building principal will meet with all building principals and the assistant superintendent to rule on all requests. Requests will be determined by class size first and reason second. Capricious requests will not be honored.

Once a child has been allowed to attend an attendance center out of their boundary, they will be allowed to stay at that building with exceptions consistent with item #6.
Building principals annually, prior to registration, will review their anticipated class lists and boundary maps to insure that students are placed according to these guidelines.