DANVILLE LOCAL SCHOOLS

INTER-DISTRICT OPEN ENROLLMENT GUIDELINES

The Danville Local School District Board of Education believes that students should, under certain prescribed circumstances, benefit from an inter-district enrollment policy.  Guidelines for the transfer of students, based upon criteria established by the schools’ Administration and in conjunction with recommendations from officials of the Ohio Department of Education are listed below.  These guidelines are intended to be consistent with Section 3319.98 of the Ohio Revised code and the Board’s policy on inter-district enrollment.

1. Any application for an inter-district transfer must be submitted to the Danville Local School District Superintendent’s office on or between the first Monday in April and the first Friday in June, immediately preceding the school year for which the transfer is desired.  Applications will be acted upon by the last Friday in June.  Parents/guardians must indicate acceptance of an approved transfer on or before the first day of school in August.  Written notice of an approved and accepted transfer will promptly be furnished to the Superintendent of the transferring student’s home school district.  One (1) application must be submitted for each student who requests an inter-district transfer.

2.    Inter-district enrollment limits may be set by the Administration by grade level

or on a course-by course basis.

3.    No student once accepted in July for the immediately succeeding school year

will be displaced should enrollment exceed the limits stated above.  The Administration will determine the building assignment, without any guarantee that the building assignment (elementary) will prevail in subsequent years.

4.    Enrollment in a special program, e.g., gifted, learning disabled, developmentally

handicapped, will dictate which building a student must attend, as units are placed in building according to space availability.

5.    The Danville Local School district may refuse to admit a special education

student if the services described in the student’s IEP are not available in the district’s school.  If a special education student is admitted, the student’s school district of residence will be invited to participate in all IEP meetings regarding the student’s education consistent with state law.

6.    All approved transfers are in effect for the school year in question only, and

may be discontinued at the discretion of the Administration in subsequent school years.

7.    Applicants shall be considered on a first-come, first-served bass with an

assurance that native (home) students will not be displaced.  Participants in previous projects, such as tuition and non-resident students, will be given preference.

8.    Applicants may be rejected if the racial balance of either the sending or the

receiving school district would be negatively impacted.

9.    The Danville Local School District will accept no responsibility for the

transportation of students from other districts.

10. The Danville Local School District may deny enrollment to students who have

been expelled or suspended for (10) or more consecutive school days in the current term or the immediately preceding term.

11.  Superintendents may by mutual agreement waive the stated enrollment

deadline up to the first full week of October, should extenuating circumstances exist.

12. The Superintendent may allow a student who is a District school resident and currently enrolled, and who moves out of the district before the school year is over, to re-enter the district through open enrolment for completion of that school year.