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Elementary - Immediate Attendance Registration

Elementary Pre Registration

Upon enrollment of students for immediate attendance, they will be assigned to the attendance boundary elementary school, or, if appropriate, request a transfer that will aid the Voluntary Integration Plan. Assignment will depend upon space availability. At certain times during the school year, K-5 students may not be able to attend their attendance boundary school because classroom space is not available. These students will be assigned to the nearest school with space available.

Elementary Wait List:


When space is not available at the attendance boundary school the student is placed on the wait list for that school. Parents will be notified once space becomes available for the student to be transferred to the attendance boundary school.

Students also have the option of applying to a Magnet School:
•  Hacienda Environmental Science Magnet
•  Hammer Montessori Magnet at Galarza
•  River Glen Two-way Bilingual Immersion Magnet

Note:  Magnet School wait lists will be eliminated at the end of each year. Parents must reapply if they wish their student to be reconsidered for enrollment.

Elementary Transfer:

Voluntary Integrative Transfers
• Students may transfer out of their attendance boundary school when their residence address and attendance boundary school are designated as low socio-economic status. These students may transfer into a school that is designated high socio-economic status. (Based upon geo-codes)
• Students may transfer out of their attendance boundary school when their residence address and attendance boundary school are designated high socio-economic status. These students may transfer into a school that is designated as low socio-economic status. (Based upon geo-codes)
• If a student meets the low socio economic criteria and his/her boundary school meets the low socio-economic criteria, but the geo-code in which the student resides does not, an exception may be requested. a. The Exception process requires that the family meet the financial qualification as delineated in the Application for Free and Reduced- Price Meals. b. The Request for an Exception may be completed during the enrollment process.
  All transfers are based on space availability.

Transfer within Within SJUSD:
Your elementary student will be permitted to apply for a transfer from one school to another, provided the transfer meets one of the following requirements:
• Transfer is to an attendance boundary area school.

• Transfer is to a “magnet school.”

• Transfer will aid the Voluntary Integration Plan.
The effective date of the approved transfer will be the first day of school in September. Elementary students will be wait listed for attendance boundary and magnet schools that are at capacity.

Elementary Transfers for the Academic Language Acquisition (ALA) Bilingual Program: 
At your school of assignment, as a parent of an English Learner, you will be given a description of the educational program choices for English learners at your student’s school and within the District. Also, you will be given the process for applying for a Parental Exception Waiver. You may request of your school principal through the Parental Exception Waiver process a transfer from your school of assignment to an ALA school with classroom space.
At schools with an ALA program, the principal accepts the waiver and places the student in an ALA classroom. If there is no room in the ALA program, the principal denies the waiver, and the student is assigned to a Structured English Immersion classroom. The student may either wait for placement in ALA at that school, or parents can appeal the waiver denial and request another school with an ALA program. At schools without an ALA program, the principal denies the waiver. Parents may appeal the waiver denial and request a school with an ALA program. Upon approval by the Bilingual Office, the Student Assignment Office will transfer your student to a school with space available in an ALA Program.

Elementary Intradistrict Transfers:
A student residing in the San Jose Unified School District may request, for the following reasons, an annual Intradistrict transfer to attend another SJUSD school when space is available.
Student of working parents receiving child-care from the same person or program for at least one year. Child-care must be located within the boundaries of the requested school.
A change of residency within the District’s attendance boundaries and the student wishes to continue at the school of assignment.
Student who through the student assignment process was assigned a school due to the lack of space available at the attendance boundary school and wishes to continue at the school of assignment.
Student whose parent/guardian is a district employee at the requested school.
Student whose parent/guardian is employed within the attendance boundaries of the requested school.
Transportation services for intradistrict transfer students will not be provided by the District. Intradistrict transfer agreements must be renewed annually. Intradistrict students may be subject to displacement due to increased neighborhood enrollment. For further information, please call 535-6230, the Student Enrollment/Assignment Office.

Interdistrict Transfers:
An annual Interdistrict Permit is required for students who do not live within the SJUSD boundary. Transportation services for Interdistrict Transfer students will not be provided by the District. Interdistrict students may be subject to displacement due to increased neighborhood enrollment.
No transfers will be made during the school year except for wait list movement and ALA program transfers

Elementary Pre-Registration:

Upon enrollment of they will be assigned to the attendance boundary elementary school or Students also have the option of applying to a Magnet School, or, if appropriate, request a transfer that will aid the Voluntary Integration Plan. Assignment will depend upon space availability. At certain times during the school year, K-5 students may not be able to attend their attendance boundary school because classroom space is not available. These students will be assigned to the nearest school with space available.

Elementary Wait List:
When space is not available at the attendance boundary school the student is placed on the wait list for that school. Parents will be notified once space becomes available for the student to be transferred to the attendance boundary school.

Magnet Schools
• Hacienda Environmental Science Magnet
• Hammer Montessori Magnet at Galarza
• River Glen Two-way Bilingual Immersion Magnet

The Magnet School initial enrollment period is April. If more students apply for a magnet school than that school is able to serve, the District will assign students to the magnet school on a random basis, taking into consideration the instructional capacity of the school, voluntary integration plan criteria, and students who have a sibling attending the school. Students who are not enrolled in their magnet choice school will be placed on a wait list for that school. A computer-random process establishes initial wait lists.

Elementary Magnet Wait List:
Students are placed from a wait list as space becomes available. Parents will be informed regarding their student’s place on the wait list when they are notified of the school assignment.

Note:  Magnet School wait lists will be eliminated at the end of each year. Parents must reapply if they wish their student to be reconsidered for enrollment

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