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OPEN ENROLLMENT TRANSFERS
This section will provide you with important information about the Tamalpais
Union High School District’s Open Enrollment Transfer policy and key
information regarding our Interdistrict Transfer policy.
OPEN ENROLLMENT TRANSFER POLICY
The Tam District Open
Enrollment Transfer policy offers 8th-11th grade students, who
reside in the Tamalpais Union High School District, the opportunity to select
their school of attendance.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN OPEN ENROLLMENT?
- Open Enrollment applies only to students residing in the Tamalpais
Union High School District.
- Open Enrollment applies only to the District’s three comprehensive
high schools - Tamalpais, Drake, and Redwood.
- Open Enrollment does NOT apply
to the District’s two alternative schools - San Andreas (continuation
high school) and Tamiscal (independent study high school), or to
the District’s alternative program - TEAM.
FOR STUDENTS currently enrolled in GRADE 8
- Eighth grade students residing in one of the
Tam District’s
ten elementary feeder districts who want to attend the high school
in their attendance area need not participate in Open Enrollment. These
students will be registered through the normal enrollment process and
may attend the school in their attendance area.
>> For example, if you reside in Corte Madera
and want to attend Redwood, you do not have to participate in Open Enrollment.
You may attend Redwood.
- Tamalpais High School Attendance Area
Bolinas-Stinson School District
Mill Valley School District
Sausalito School District
- Sir Francis Drake High School Attendance Area
Lagunitas School District
Nicasio School District
Ross Valley School District
- Redwood High School Attendance Area
Kentfield School District
Larkspur School District
Reed Union School District
Ross School District
Students residing in the Tam District who want to attend a District
school other than the high school in their attendance area, must
participate in the Open Enrollment process (except as outlined
in #2 below).
>> For example, if you reside in Corte Madera
and want to attend Tam High, you must participate in Open Enrollment.
- Eighth grade students residing in the Tam District
who attend a public school in one of the Tam District’s
ten elementary feeder districts (other than in their district of
residence) may attend either their high school of residence or the
high school in the attendance area of their 8th grade school. These
students do not have to participate in Open Enrollment.
>> For example, if you reside in Tiburon and attend Mill
Valley Middle School on an approved interdistrict transfer between
the elementary districts, you may attend either Redwood or Tam without
participating in Open Enrollment.
PLEASE NOTE: Students residing in the Tam District who attend a private
school in 8th grade and want to attend a Tam District school in 9th grade
must attend their school of residence unless they apply for, and are
granted, an Open Enrollment transfer.
>> For example, if you reside in San
Anselmo and attend Marin Country Day School in 8th grade, you must
attend Drake High School or participate in Open Enrollment if you
wish to attend either Redwood or Tam in 9th grade.
FOR STUDENTS currently enrolled GRADES 9-11:
- Students residing in the Tam District who attend a District school,
may continue attending that school without participating in Open
Enrollment.
- Students residing in the Tam District who attend a District school
but wish to attend a different District school next year, must participate
in Open Enrollment.
- Students residing outside the Tam District with an interdistrict
transfer approved by both the student’s district of residence and
the Tam District, are eligible to participate in Open Enrollment.
- Ninth-eleventh grade students residing in the Tam District who
currently attend a private high school but wish to attend a Tam District
school next year must attend their high school of residence unless
they apply for, and are granted, an Open Enrollment transfer.
For example, if you reside in San Anselmo and attend Branson in 9th
grade but wish to attend a Tam District school in 10th grade, you must
attend Drake High unless you participate in Open Enrollment.
WHAT ARE THE DISTRICT’S OPEN ENROLLMENT GUIDELINES?
The Tam District Board of Trustees has established clear Open Enrollment
procedures and timelines which must be followed.
The Board has determined that each comprehensive high school’s enrollment
may not increase by more than fifty (50) students through the Open Enrollment
process for the 2008-09 school year.
If the number of students who apply for Open Enrollment transfers to
any one school exceeds that school's Open Enrollment capacity of fifty
students, students will be selected to attend that school by a lottery
conducted by the Superintendent. Students not selected in the lottery
will be placed on a waiting list, should Open Enrollment space become
available at that school.
PLEASE NOTE: Since the inception of the Open Enrollment program, transfer
requests to any one school have NOT exceeded the fifty student maximum
after the April 15 confirmation deadline. Therefore, all students requesting
Open Enrollment transfers, using the procedure set forth by the Board
of Trustees, have been assigned to their school of choice. (see page
4, #5)
HOW DOES A STUDENT PARTICIPATE IN THE OPEN ENROLLMENT PROCESS?
- Open Enrollment applications may be obtained
in January by contacting Peggy Bogason in the District Superintendent’s
Office at (415) 945-3720. Requests will not be processed
without a completed application (signed by both the student and parent/guardian).
>>
If
you have questions about Open Enrollment or would like to discuss
your particular situation, please contact Peggy Bogason at 945-3720.
- Mail the completed Open Enrollment Transfer Application to the
Superintendent’s
Office, PO Box 605, Larkspur, CA 94977 to be received by the 4:00pm
Monday, March 3, 2008 deadline.
- By March 17th, the Superintendent will review all transfer requests
and assign students to their school of choice if that school’s Open
Enrollment Capacity is not exceeded. If applications to a school exceed
that school’s Open Enrollment Capacity, a lottery will determine who
is assigned to that school. A waiting list, also determined by lottery,
will be established.
>>PLEASE NOTE: Since inception of the Open Enrollment program,
Open Enrollment transfer requests to any one school have NOT exceeded
the fifty student maximum after the April 15 confirmation deadline.
Therefore, all students requesting Open Enrollment transfers, using
the procedure set forth by the Board of Trustees, have been assigned
to their school of choice. (see page 4, #5)
- By March 17th, students will be notified of their status by mail.
The status will be one of the following:
- assigned to their first school
of choice;
- placed on the waiting list for their first school of choice;
or
- assigned to their second school of choice, if requested.
- By April 15th, students assigned to a school must confirm their
attendance at that school by mail using the appropriate District form.
Once confirmed, the student is expected to attend that school.
>>
AFTER CONFIRMING, STUDENTS SHOULD CONTACT THEIR NEW SCHOOL TO SCHEDULE
A REGISTRATION APPOINTMENT.
WHAT OTHER CONSIDERATIONS ARE THERE?
- Students who decide to participate in Open Enrollment after March
3 (but before June 30th) will be assigned to their school of choice
if there is remaining Open Enrollment Capacity at that school, placed
on a waiting list in order of application, or assigned to their second
school of choice.
- The Open Enrollment process closes on June 30th. Students on waiting
lists must decide to either attend their second school of choice,
if applicable, or attend their school of residence. Waiting lists will
not carry over to the following school year; the process starts anew.
- PLEASE NOTE: Students residing in the District
whose most recent enrollment was in a private high school, may either
participate in the Open Enrollment transfer process before June 30th
or attend their school of residence.
- Students who move into the District after June 30th must attend
their school of residence.
- Once accepted to a school, a student may not be displaced from
that school and will not have to apply again.
- Students residing in the District
may have their transfer revoked for disciplinary reasons if designated
by the Board of Trustees through an expulsion process, by the District’s
policy on alcohol/drugs second offenses, by the action of a Student
Attendance Review Board (SARB), or through placement in an alternative
school or program.
- Students attending school in the District on an Interdistrict
Transfer may have their transfer revoked for failing to meet the terms
and conditions of the transfer, poor attendance, improper behavior,
and/or failing grades.
- Upon verification, Compelling Need Transfers shall be granted
to permit concurrent attendance of siblings at the same District school.
- No new transportation services shall be provided for Open Enrollment
students. Transportation services are limited to those traditionally
provided by the District.
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Important things to know:
BEFORE APPLYING FOR AN OPEN ENROLLMENT TRANSFER, STUDENTS AND PARENTS ARE
STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO VISIT BOTH THEIR SCHOOL OF RESIDENCE AND THEIR DESIRED
SCHOOL OF ATTENDANCE TO MAKE CERTAIN THEIR CHOICE IS AN APPROPRIATE ONE.
Open Enrollment Application Period (2008-2009)
Jan. 9, 2008: Open Enrollment Applications will be available
Mar. 3, 2008, 4pm: DEADLINE for receipt of Open Enrollment Transfer Applications
If you have questions about the Tamalpais District, our schools, or the Interdistrict
or Open Enrollment Transfer policies, please do not hesitate to contact the
Office of the Superintendent of Schools at (415) 945-3720.
If you would like a copy of either policy, please contact Peggy Bogason at
(415) 945-3720. You can also visit our website at www.tamdistrict.org.
WHO TO CONTACT to learn more about:
…a District
Open Enrollment School (Tamalpais, Drake, or Redwood) or to receive a copy
of the School Accountability Report Card, contact:
Tamalpais High School
Chris Holleran, Principal 388-3292
Drake High School
Don Drake, Principal 453-8770
Redwood High School
Nancy Neu, Principal 924-6200
…San Andreas, Tamiscal, or the Team Program, contact:
San Andreas High School
Gerald Austin, Principal 945-3770
Tamiscal High School/TEAM
John Carroll, Principal 945-3750
…Open Enrollment or Interdistrict Transfers
or to obtain copies of forms or policies and procedures, contact:
Tamalpais
Union High School District
Peggy Bogason, Executive Assistant 945-3720
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