Does Anyone Know....Question About Elementary School Admissions

[Tinker'n'Fun]

In my area of NYS the money only follows the child if they attend a private/parochial school outside of your district. That means you can not pay out of district to send them to another school. Your tax money is paid for and stays in district.

The only exception is the expulsion rule where a child who has been expelled can apply to a second district. This doesn't usually work and they end up at the "End of the Road school" which excepts all kids from all districts but is very very scary indeed!!!

 

[dis-happy]

If your assigned school is very poorly performing under the No Child Left Behind Act you may have some other options for transferring.

 

[tvguy]

I think you need to call the district that the school you want to go to is in.

I don't think there is a general rule, a school policies vary wildly across the nation.

Around here, the issue wouldn't be with the district you want your child to go to school in, it would be with the district you live in. Your home district has to give permission in most cases, because they don't want to lose the money from the state that they would get if your child went to their school.

 

[castleview]

It's even worse here on Long Island! There can be a huge difference in quality of education from one district to the other & the districts are fairly small and go by town, so the difference of living 4 blocks in any direction can be the difference of your child going to one of the top performing districts in the state to one of the bottom in the state. Our district employs a person whose job it is to investigate that children are actually living where their documentation states.

Yes, truancy officers are used for investigations around here too. When DH was in a semi-inner city school right outside an inner city school, they tossed about 70 kids a year out.

 

[minkydog]

Call the school ask. But don't be surprised if they won't take your child. I know in my district your child cannot attend one single day if you're out of district.

 

[scrapquitler]

My DD will be going to Kindergarten next September. I had originally planned to move back into the school district where I grew up, so she could attend the same school that I did. However, because of the housing collapse when the economy went south, we just couldn't sell our house. I've looked into putting it on the market again, but there's no way we could get what we need to pay off the mortgage. Does anyone know what the general rule is about out of area kids attending another school district? Who I could contact to ask? Should I call the Elementary school itself and speak with the principal? I'd be more than willing to pay some kind of a fee for her to go there. I looked on their website and couldn't find anything but I did see they are having Kindergarten registration next month so I'd really like to find out. If anyone has any information I'd be so grateful!

Probably depends on where you live, some places might let you put your child in a district where they attend afterschool care, others not.

Where I live, there is no option to register your child in a school where you do not live. Well, you could, but the 'fee' is full tution (in the realm of $8 or $9K, whatever the current 'per pupil expenditure' is).

 

[barkley]

where i live you contact the superintendant of the district you wish your child to attend to see if there's space, if so you get a form that the superintendant completes for what will be the "sending" district. as far as transportation goes, you just take your child to the closest bus stop for the new district once they have been accepted for enrollment.