Under the new Student Assignment Plan, all students will be assigned to the school within their boundary area (look up your school here.) If the attendance area school isn’t your first choice, you can apply for your child to go to another school within the Seattle Public School system. The open enrollment period runs from today, March 1 through the end of the month. The school district stresses that all the applications will be processed at the end of March – there is no advantage to applying on March 1 vs. March 31.
If you’re interested in sending your child to an option school, such as Salmon Bay K-8, there will be a “Family to Family Option School Fair” from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 13 at the John Stanford Center (2445 3rd Ave. S.)
On March 24th at the Ballard Library, enrollment staff will be on hand from 5:30 – 7 p.m. to help answer your questions. You can use this opportunity to enroll new students and/or submit School Choice Forms for next school year. Make sure to bring all necessary documents to register your child.
On the other hand, if you’re satisfied with the school that was noted in the letter sent out by the school district last month, no other action is needed.
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At last, we have neighborhood schools!
It's been a long time coming, make the best of it.
FYI – if you have any questions on the enrollment process you can call the enrollment office directly and they can walk you through it. I had to call them with a question and they were very helpful.