If you reside within the boundaries of the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) and your child attends the neighborhood school he/she is assigned to based on your home address, you do not need to enroll your child from year to year.

Open enrollment is for SUSD students whose parents/guardians wish for them to attend a SUSD school other than the one to which they are geographically assigned.

Open enrollment is also for students who reside outside of SUSD boundaries whose parents/guardians wish for them to attend a SUSD school or to attend a SUSD school other than the one to which they currently open enroll.

Use the SUSD School Locator links below and provide your address to see the assigned school for your neighborhood. If you wish to enroll your child into a school outside of your neighborhood school, you will want to apply for open enrollment.

• Elementary/K-8 School Locator
• Middle/K-8 School Locator
• High School Locator
• View & Download District Map

Please complete the Open Enrollment application.

You will receive an email with further instructions. You should print your application for your records before exiting the application process. If you have questions after you have applied, please contact the school's registrar where you applied.

Following acceptance of Open Enrollment, you are required to provide the following documentation to the school's registrar in-person:

• A certified copy of the pupil’s birth certificate or an affidavit explaining the inability to provide a copy of the birth certificate. (A.R.S. §15-828)
• Current immunization records
• Proof of residency (see Arizona Department of Education Arizona Residency Documentation or Affidavit of Shared Residence forms)
• Parent/Guardian identification
• Withdrawal form (if previously enrolled in an Arizona school)
• Guardianship/Custody documentation (if applicable)

Once your open enrollment is accepted, you will complete the Regular Enrollment application. You can upload all documentation at this time into the Regular Enrollment application.

No, there is no cost to enroll your student in SUSD.

If you complete an application during Priority Period 1, you will be notified of its acceptance between December 2 and December 20.  If the application is not accepted because the school/grade/program is at capacity, no notification will be sent; however, the application will roll into Priority Period 2 for consideration if/when capacity in the school/grade/program becomes available.

You will receive an email from the school that your student has been accepted.

The email you receive from SUSD of your student's acceptance contains information regarding your next steps. The first of those steps is to complete the online Regular Enrollment application within 10 school days of the District having sent your acceptance email. After you complete the Regular Enrollment application, you must take the required documents to the school to complete enrollment, also within those same 10 days.

If the Superintendent has determined there is excess capacity at a school to enroll additional students, students shall be selected on the basis of designated priority categories from the pool of students. Subject to school, grade level and/or program capacity, enrollment preference shall be given in the following order of priority, and on a first-come, first-served basis within each category:

1. Children of District Employee
2. District resident students who are currently enrolled
3. Siblings of District resident students who are currently enrolled
4. District resident students who are not currently enrolled
5. Non-resident students who are currently enrolled
6. Siblings of non-resident students who are currently enrolled
7. Non-resident students who are not currently enrolled

Priority Periods are the two timelines SUSD has established to submit open enrollment applications. The district considers applications submitted in the first Priority Period before it considers applications submitted during the second Priority Period. Other school districts may call these open enrollment submission periods "Rounds" or "Timelines." SUSD calls them Priority Periods.

Priority Period 1 is from November 1 through December 1st.

Priority Period 2 is December 2 until the school, grade or program being applied to reaches its capacity.

If your student is currently enrolled, you do not need to reapply each year for continued enrollment. The student is considered to be in that school's feeder pattern for middle school and high school. 

If your student is currently open-enrolled at a school and you wish to enroll them at your neighborhood school, please complete the Regular Enrollment process. 

Once the District approves an open-enrollment application, it is not necessary to reapply for open enrollment to the same school in subsequent years unless the student wishes to change schools or there has been a break in the student's enrollment at the school.  The District shall treat open-enrolled students the same as resident students for purposes of continued admission to the school to which the student is open enrolled and admission to the schools into which that school feeds. This includes students who were enrolled in a Scottsdale Unified School District Pre-K program the previous school year. Such students shall be accepted for open enrollment to the school where they attended Pre-K, as long as they complete the Open Enrollment Application by the application deadlines, as well as the enrollment deadlines. Thus, once open-enrolled, students may elect to follow the feeder pattern established by the District for the school to which they open enrolled. 

Yes, a student's open enrollment status can be revoked.

As outlined in SUSD Governing Board Open Enrollment Regulation JFB-R, open enrollment status may be reviewed by the Principal for continuation periodically based upon the following areas:

A.  Academic: for high school, a student must be on track to graduate with his or her cohort within 4 years;
B.  Discipline:  excessive disciplinary/behavioral infractions of student's failure to comply with the Code of  Conduct, demonstrating a pattern of behavior that interferes with academic progress;
C.  Attendance:  excessive absences or tardies that interfere with academic progress.

Recommendations for revocation will be reviewed by the Executive Director for Student Support Services, and will require documentation of periodic communication with the student/family, including but not limited to, as applicable: attendance contract(s), behavior contract(s), interventions, and meeting and other communications with the student/family.

To review SUSD Governing Board Open Enrollment Regulation JFB-R, click here.