OPEN ENROLLMENT TRANSFERS - PROCEDURES AS A RECEIVING DISTRICT
The school district will participate in open enrollment as a receiving district. As a receiving district, the Board will allow nonresident students, who meet the legal requirements, to open enroll into the school district. The Board shall have complete discretion to determine the attendance center of the students attending the school district under open enrollment.
The Board designates the superintendent to determine the appropriate action on open enrollment requests in the year preceding the first year desired for open enrollment as per state code. The superintendent shall notify the sending school district within five days of the determination to approve or deny the open enrollment request. The superintendent shall notify the parents within fifteen days of the determination to approve or deny the open enrollment request. The superintendent shall also forward a copy of the action with a copy of the open enrollment request to the Department of Education.
Open enrollment requests into the school district will not be approved if insufficient classroom space exists. Open enrollment requests into the school district will also not be approved for students who have been suspended or expelled by the administration or the board of the school district the student is or was attending until the student has been reinstated into the school district from which the student was suspended or expelled. Once the student is reinstated, the student's open enrollment request will be considered in the same manner as other open enrollment requests.
Open enrollment requests into the school district that, if denied, would result in students from the same nuclear family being enrolled in different school districts, will be given highest priority. The Board, in its discretion, may waive the insufficient classroom space reason for denial for students of the same nuclear family to prevent the division of a nuclear family between two school districts. Other open enrollment requests into the school district shall be considered in the order received by the school district with the first open enrollment request given a higher priority than the second open enrollment request and so forth.
Generally, students in high school open enrolling into the school district shall not be eligible for participation in interscholastic athletics during the first ninety days of open enrollment into the school district.
These are spelled out in the Boys and Girls Association rules and/or the Department of Education rules and guidelines.
Parents are responsible for providing transportation to and from the receiving school district without reimbursement unless the parents qualify for transportation assistance. Upon a parent's request, the Board may approve transportation into the sending district. The transportation is limited to within two (2) miles of the district boundary/current bus route. The Board's approval is subject to the sending District's approval.
Open enrollment requests into the school district shall be for four years or more. The four-year requirement shall not apply to students who will graduate within four years, to students who move to another school district, or when the parent petitions for permission to open enroll the student to an alternative receiving district.
Open Enrollment Into the School District as an Alternative Receiving District
Open enrollment requests into the school district as an alternative receiving district shall be considered by the Board in the same manner as open enrollment requests into the school district as a receiving district.
The policies of the school district shall apply to students attending the school district under open enrollment.
It shall be the responsibility of the superintendent to develop appropriate office procedures and administrative regulations necessary for open enrollment requests.
Approved: 4/14/97 Revised: 6/22 Reviewed: 6/22
Legal Reference: Iowa Code §§ 139.9; 274.1; 279.11; 282.1, .3, .8, .18; 299.1 (1995).
281 I.A.C. 17.
1990 Op. Att'y Gen. 75.
Cross Reference: 501.6 Student Transfers In
501.7 Student Transfers Out or Withdrawals
501.14 Open Enrollment Transfers - Procedures as a
Sending District
506 Student Records
507 Student Health and Well-Being
606.6 Insufficient Classroom Space