1. Open Enrollment
November 26, 2012
PEN
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2. District Open Enrollment Summary
2012-13 2011-12 2010-11
Projected Spaces 2982 2997 3519
Lottery Participants 1983 2243 2420
Placements Offered via 1609 1562 1721
Lottery
Students Not Placed 374 573 699
Late Applications 342 390 est. 579
Submitted
Placements Off All 274 364 516
Waitlists
Total Placed 1883 1926 2237
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3. Before Open Enrollment Begins
 A checklist of things to do:
 Learn about PUSD schools
 Visit schools and attend school events
 Think of what your family needs
 Select the school(s) that meets your needs
 School Guide available prior to start of
Open Enrollment
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4. Priority Enrollment Period:
December 4-18, 2012
 Sibling Registration
 Employee Priority
 Willard 5th graders not residing in Blair’s
attendance area who wish to continue with
the IB Programme in middle school
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5. Priority Enrollment-Registration
Sibling Registration
 Parents may register the brothers and sisters of
students who are already enrolled at a school
 All siblings must be enrolled on the same campus for
the 2013-14 school year
 If siblings are not registered during this time period,
sibling status is forfeited
 This priority registration is done at the school
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6. Priority Enrollment Registration
Employee Priority Willard 5th graders
 Criteria remains the same:  Current Willard 5th grader
Monthly PUSD transitioning to 6th grade
employees  Student does not reside in
Transition grades only Blair’s attendance area
Or, child is new to PUSD  Student wants to continue
 A random lottery in the International
 10% of open seats Baccalaureate Programme
 Applications are for middle school
submitted online only  Application is
submitted at Blair
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7. District-wide
General Open Enrollment
January 23, 2013- February 12, 2013
 Parents submit their Open Enrollment applications only
for schools other than their neighborhood school
online at www.openenrollment.info
 The official Open Enrollment application submission
period ends on February 12, 2013-midnight
 Families who wish to attend their neighborhood
schools do not need to submit the Open Enrollment
application
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8. College & Career Pathways and
Dual Language Immersion Programs
College & Career Dual Language Immersion
Pathways Programs
 Eight Pathways for  Two Dual Language
entering 9th and 10th Immersion programs:
graders Spanish at Jackson and San
 35% of spaces are Rafael Elementary Schools,
reserved for “non” school and Mandarin Chinese at
of residence students Field Elementary
 Neighborhood students  35% spaces reserved for
will enroll in Pathways at school of residence
their site following (neighborhood) students
registration  Opportunity to indicate
 Agreement to remain in preference for Spanish DLIP
Pathway-exit returns to site
school of residence  All applications are
 All applications are submitted online
submitted online
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9. Permit-Only School Neighborhood
Preference
Three Permit-Only Schools in PUSD
Marshall 6-12 Don Benito K-5
Norma Coombs Alternative K-5
 Reserve 35% of the open seats for students who live in
the “neighborhood preference” area
 These seats will go through lottery first and “x number” of
seats are filled with students living in the neighborhood
 If there are more students in the neighborhood than open
seats those students will go through the “regular” lottery
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10. District-wide Open Enrollment
Timeline After Applying
March 11, 2013
 Notification mailed home to families
 If student is selected through the lottery for a school
other than first choice the student will be placed on
the waiting list of the first choice school ONLY
March 14-April 4, 2013
 School Registrations
√ Parent/guardian must go to the site with the
letter to enroll in the school accepted to through
Open Enrollment lottery
√ The seat will be forfeited if not registered during
this time frame
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11. Open Enrollment Closes!
April 30, 2013
 Open Enrollment closes for the upcoming 2013-2014
school year
 No waitlists are maintained either centrally or by
school sites
 Any and all movement of students between school sites
is done centrally
 If in doubt, contact the Office of Permits & Records; a
school cannot accept a student after this date unless it
is the student’s school of residence
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12. Interdistrict Permits & New to PUSD
May 6, 2013
 Interdistrict Permit requests accepted
 Facilitated centrally
 Request for a specific school is made by family and the
Office of Permits & Records contacts site
May 6–late July*, 2013
(*Three weeks prior to start of the school year)
 Intradistrict Permit requests accepted from new-to-
PUSD students (student has never attended a District
school)
 Facilitated centrally
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13. New in 2013-14
 Children entering Kindergarten must turn five years old
by October 1, 2013
 Transitional Kindergarten is planned for children with
birthdates from 9/2/2013 - 12/2/2013 - Sites TBA
 Percentage of students who will get neighborhood
preference for the permit-only schools and the three
Dual Language sites increases from 30 to 35%
 Families will be able to make five school choices this
year via Open Enrollment vs. three last year
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14. New for 2013-2014, cont’d.
 A new STEAM Magnet opens at Washington Middle
School; students apply and complete an assessment
 A new College & Career Pathway at PHS, App Academy;
applications are accepted with all other online applications
 Beginning with the 2013-14 school year, non-resident
students accepted to Sierra Madre Elementary School
will not automatically continue on to the middle school;
they will need to re-apply via Open Enrollment
 There is no Late Application Period - all applications
must be submitted by the February 12, 2013 deadline
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15. Out-Of-District Students
Wishing to Apply
 Open Enrollment is for residents of PUSD, which
includes Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre
 PUSD does accept students from other school districts
based on Board Policy 5117
 Non-resident students interested in Pasadena Unified
School District programs can apply beginning Monday,
May 6, 2013 and…
 The District may accept online applications for specific
programs in late March or April, though notification of
acceptance would not happen until May 6 or later
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16. Questions?
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