• The Office of School Innovation and Choice is working on expanding choice options for families.
• The timeline continues to allow families to be enrolled in the spring for the next school year.
• All applications received between November 1 or January 31 provide students the same opportunity to be offered enrollment at their school of choice.

This application is for VEEP, Open Enrollment, Magnet and PISC options only. For all other options including Charter, Alternative and Home Study, please contacted the school directly.

1. STUDENT CONTACT INFORMATION: Please print clearly and complete the entire application. Incomplete and illegible applications will be returned unprocessed to the parent. Notify the Office of Enrollment Options of any changes to your phone number or home address. Schools will not be able to contact you without this information.
2. CHOOSE SCHOOLS: All programs are included in this one application. Enrollment Options allows you to choose from one to five schools during the priority application period. The priority application period is from November 1 through January 31. Additional schools listed beyond five will be added to your application with a February 1 date.
3. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING:
   • Language preference allows Enrollment Options and the schools to send information to you in the appropriate language.
   • Checking ‘yes’ for District transportation alerts Enrollment Options to contact you if you made a school choice that will not provide transportation.
4. CHECK IF APPLICABLE (only available Oct. 1-Jan. 31):
   • Siblings must be enrolled concurrently at the same school to receive sibling priority. Siblings are students who share a biological or adoptive parent/guardian.
   • Twins/Multiple Birth students receive the same five priority schools (unless requested by the parent) and receive the same random priority number for each school.
   • Elementary Gifted Cluster students must be GATE cluster qualified; priority is only for Open Enrollment program applications.
5. IMPORTANT: Carefully read the Parent/Guardian statement followed by signature and date.
6. SUBMIT THE APPLICATION: You may submit your application at any school in the San Diego Unified School District or at the Enrollment Options Office, located at 4100 Normal Street, Annex 7-B. Eugene Brucker Educational Center Map

Policies and Procedures:
Applications received between November 1 and January 31 are considered priority and will be offered enrollment before all later applications at a school site. All applications received during this time period will be entered into the Enrollment Options system. Applications are given a computer generated random number. Enrollment is on a space available basis for Magnet, VEEP and Open Enrollment programs.

1. TRANSFERS – Students must remain in the school through the end of each school year. Students wishing to leave the school and return to the resident school must file an Enrollment Options Transfer Request form by the last working day before school starts in the fall or they may be required to complete the school year in the school in which they are enrolled. Students who transfer from the school and then wish to return are subject to all eligibility and enrollment criteria.
2. PRIORITY APPLICATION PERIOD (limited to five schools) – Applications received between November 1 and January 31 are considered priority. Magnet priority applications will be sorted by geographic high school cluster of residence. Applications for each program are placed on grade level wait lists in accordance with the following factors:
   • Criteria for priority, as listed and verified on the application
   • Random, computer-generated number assigned to each application (Magnet, VEEP, Open Enrollment)
   • Ranked with lowest achieving and from low income families receiving highest priority (PISC)
3. APPLICATIONS AFTER JANUARY 31 THROUGH THE LAST WORKING DAY BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS – Non-priority applications and applications received after January 31 will be added to the wait list by date and time received until the last working day before school starts in the fall. Program Improvement School Choice, Continuity, GATE, Sibling, and Specialized Course priority will not be granted after January 31.
4. PRIORITY APPLICATION ENROLLMENT PERIOD – Schools will notify parents of invitation for priority enrollment between March 15 and May 15.
5. CONTINUITY
   • Magnet students who have made a commitment to a specific theme are given first priority to continue in that theme when the students change levels (elementary to middle to senior high). An application must be completed between levels.
   • District VEEP, PISC and Open Enrollment students may continue through the regular feeder pattern (elementary to middle to senior high) without reapplying. Transportation will be dependent on current allied patterns and bus routes.
   • Interdistrict Attendance Permit students do not receive continuity.
6. INTERDISTRICT (does not apply to PISC or VEEP) – Students moving outside of the San Diego Unified School District must reapply and submit an approved Interdistrict Attendance Permit to continue. Enrollment will be subject to all eligibility and enrollment criteria.
7. TRANSPORTATION – Transportation is provided, within guidelines, for Magnet, VEEP, and PISC students when at least 8 students can be scheduled on a bus. A nonresident elementary student receiving childcare may use the child-care address for transportation purposes. To be eligible for transportation as a VEEP or PISC student, students may only apply to schools within the exchange pattern for their elementary school of residence. No student transportation is provided with the Open Enrollment program enrollment.

SPECIAL PROGRAM POLICIES – Enrollment is on a space available basis for Magnet, VEEP and Open Enrollment programs.

MAGNET PROGRAM – A student enrolled in a magnet program will not be allowed to make a parallel transfer to another magnet program of the same emphasis at the same level (elementary, middle/junior, senior).

VEEP PROGRAM – Eligibility is determined by the student’s geographic elementary school of residence, regardless of school of attendance. Elementary students using child-care affidavits to qualify for VEEP are not provided transportation to the feeder secondary school.

OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM – Enrollment is limited to schools that have space.

PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT SCHOOL CHOICE (PISC) PROGRAM – Applications received during the PISC application period (Nov. 1-Jan. 31) will be ranked with students who are lowest achieving and from low-income families receiving highest priority and sorted by grade level. When the student’s resident school meets its identified achievement targets two years in a row, district provided transportation from the resident school will cease. Enrollment is limited and will not be granted if the number of requests exceeds the available funding for transportation.

What happens to the application once it is submitted during the November 1 through January 31 priority timeframe?

1. The date- and time-stamped application arrives at the Office of Enrollment Options.
2. The application is reviewed for completeness. Student applications are processed into the program that provides the student with the highest possible priority.
3. All applications received by January 31are given a computer generated random number, which is used to sort applications by grade level. Magnet applications are also sorted by high school cluster in which the student resides. Priorities move students to the top of list in the following order: Continuity; Siblings; PISC; General Applications. After January 31, this rank-ordered, grade level list is sent to schools. Schools accept students in the priority order on the list.
4. Schools contact parents to offer enrollment. Parents must notify Enrollment Options of changes to phone number and home address. Without this information in the Enrollment Options system, the schools will not be able to contact you. If a school does not receive a response, the school offers enrollment to the next student on the list.
5. Schools will offer priority enrollment from March 15 to May 15. Enrollment is on a space-available basis. (SCPA high school audition exception.)

The Program Improvement School Choice (PISC) program is closed. It will reopen when new schools are named as Program Improvement out of Enrollment Options regular timeline. Applicants to all other programs (Magnet, VEEP, and Open Enrollment) are added to the school enrollment lists by date and time received. These applicants are not offered enrollment until after the May 15 priority enrollment period.

The 2008-2009 Enrollment Options Application is available by calling or visiting Enrollment Options, please follow procedures for second semester enrollment. The last day to apply using a 2008-2009 application for second semester enrollment is the last day of school before SDUSD Winter Break.

San Diego Unified School District

For questions, comments, or suggestions concerning this site please contact eoptions@sandi.net
Revised October 1, 2008