3131%20Transfers%20DRAFT.pdf

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Book Policy Manual

Section Section: 3000 - Students
Title Copy of Transfers

Code 3131

Status First Reading

Adopted December 2, 1974

Last Revised January 14, 2025

Prior Revised Dates 02.03.79; 02.22.77; 11.06.78; 04.23./9% 07.12.94; 11.13.4127 7.10.18

District Attendance Area Transfers
Each student in the distrietEdmonds School District is required to attend the school designated for the
geographic attendance area in which they reside.

A-parentorguardanFamilies may request that their child be allowed to attend another school in the
distrietDistrict. Application requests must be submitted to the superintendent or designee of elementary or
secondary education to which the student is currently assigned. Secondary students who request attendance
area transfers are subject to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association’s eligibility rules.

Transfers may be granted if:

A. A financial, educational, safety, or health condition affecting the student would be reasonably improved
as a result of the transfer; or

B. There is some other special hardship or detrimental condition affecting the student or the student’s
immediate family which would be alleviated as a result of the transfer. Special hardship or detrimental
conditions may include a student who moves to a new attendance area in the distrietDistrict during the
school year. The student may elect to transfer at the time of the move or at the end of the semester or
grading period. For a high school sophomore or junior, transfers may only be approved to coincide with
the beginning of a new grading period. A senior may elect to finish the school year without transferring
to a new school but must declare preference prior to the beginning of the last semester.

The superintendent or designee will review the submitted application for transfer to determine:

1. Whether space is available in the grade level or classes at the building in which the student
desires to be enrolled;

2. Whether appropriate transportation, educational programs or services are available to improve
the student's condition as stated in requesting the transfer; and

3. Whether the student's transfer is likely to create a risk to the health or safety of other students or
staff at the new school building.

Transfers may be granted if the student is a child of a full-time certificated or classified school employee
unless:

A. The student has a history of convictions, violent or disruptive behavior, or gang membership;



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B. The student has been expelled or suspended from school for more than ten consecutive days; or
C. Enrollment of a nonresident child would displace a child who is a resident of the distretDistrict.

Parents-Families will be informed annually of the distriet's-District's attendance area transfer option. The
distrietDistrict will make available for public inspection the Superintendent of Public Instruction's annual
information booklet on enrollment options in the state at each school building, the central office, and local
public libraries. This information will also be available on the website of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.

Reporting Transfers out of the District

When students move out of the distrtet-Districtwithout notification of where they will be enrolling once they
have moved, it can be challenging to know how to report the transfer appropriately and ensure the student’s
educational records are forwarded. To address these challenges, the distriet-District will follow the
Comprehensive Education Data and Research System (CEDARS) Reporting Guidance for reporting students as
confirmed or unconfirmed transfers both inside and outside of Washington.

To confirm the transfer of a student who has emigrated to another country, the distretDistrict will obtain
written confirmation, but need not obtain an “official” writing. This means that if a parentfamily informs a
school administrator or designee that their family is leaving the country and a school administrator or designee
documents the conversation in writing and includes it in the student’s file, the distrietDistrict may report the
out of country transfer as confirmed. However, the ditstrtet-District will not report a transfer as confirmed if
information that a student has moved is reported from a student's friend rather than a-parentthe family.

Legal References

RCW 28A.225.225 Applications from nonresident students or students receiving home-based instruction to
attend district school — School employees’ children — Acceptance and rejection standards — Notification
RCW 28A.225.270 Intradistrict enrollment options policies RCW 28A.225.290 Enrollment options information
booklet RCW 28A.225.300 Enrollment options information to parentsfamily

Management Resources
2020 - May Policy Issue
Policy News, June 2003 Enrolling Children of School Employees

Classification: Discretionary

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