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Open Enrollment
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Open Enrollment is an opportunity for students who reside outside of Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) boundaries to enroll in Scottsdale Unified schools, based on availability. Students who live within SUSD boundaries may also use open enrollment to change from their default school. To start the process for open enrollment, fill out the Open Enrollment application. Arizona state law allows students to apply for admission to any public school through open enrollment, based on available classroom space (R.S. § 15-816.01).
Acceptance is based on the school’s grade-level and program capacity, and meeting all admission requirements.
SUSD has four schools, Cheyenne, Echo Canyon, Pueblo, and Scottsdale Online Learning that are “Schools of Choice” with no geographic boundaries for enrollment. To enroll in these schools, all students must apply through open enrollment.
Scottsdale Unified School District is still accepting open enrollment applications for the 2020-2021 school year.
Open Enrollment for 2021-2022 begins November 2, 2020.
School Registrars
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Elementary Schools
Name of School Registrar Primary Phone Number Anasazi Elementary School (480) 484-7300 Cherokee Elementary School (480) 484-8700 Cochise Elementary School (480) 484-1100 Desert Canyon Elementary School (480) 484-1700 Hohokam Elementary School (480) 484-1800 Hopi Elementary School (480) 484-2000 Kiva Elementary School (480) 484-2200 Laguna Elementary School (480) 484-2400 Navajo Elementary School (480) 484-2600 Pima Traditional School (480) 484-2800 Pueblo Elementary School (480) 484-3100 Redfield Elementary School (480) 484-4000 Sequoya Elementary School (480) 484-3200 Tavan Elementary School (480) 484-3500 Yavapai Elementary School (480) 484-3800 -
K-8 Schools
Name of School Registrar Primary Phone Number Cheyenne Traditional School (480) 484-5600 Copper Ridge School (480) 484-1400 Echo Canyon School (480) 484-7500 Tonalea K-8 (480) 484-5800 -
Middle Schools
Name of School Registrar Primary Phone Number Cocopah Middle School (480) 484-4400 Desert Canyon Middle School (480) 484-4600 Ingleside Middle School (480) 484-4900 Mohave Middle School (480) 484-5200 Mountainside Middle School (480) 484-5500 -
High Schools
Name of School Registrar Primary Phone Number Arcadia High School (480) 484-6300 Chaparral High School (480) 484-6500 Coronado High School (480) 484-6800 Desert Mountain High School (480) 484-7000 Saguaro High School (480) 484-7100
Open Enrollment FAQs
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What is the difference between open enrollment or regular enrollment?
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.
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How do I locate my default school?
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.
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What if I don't want to attend my default school?
Please complete the Open Enrollment application.
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What happens after I apply for open enrollment?
You will receive an email confirmation after successful completion of the application. If you have questions after you have applied, please contact the school's registrar where you applied.
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What documents are required to finalize enrollment?
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)
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Can I email my documents?
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.
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Is there a cost to enroll?
No, there is no cost to enroll your student in SUSD.
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When will I find out if my student(s) has been accepted?
For the 2021-2022 school year, between December 2nd and December 18th.
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How will I be notified of acceptance?
You will receive an email from the school that your student has been accepted.
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What are the next steps after acceptance?
For the current school year: 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.
For 2021-2022 school year: 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 starting on January 15, 2021. After you complete the Regular Enrollment application, you must take the required documents to the school to complete enrollment within 10 days. You can also upload the documents and submit them electronically.
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What are the Enrollment Priority Categories?
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:
- Children of District Employee
- Siblings of District resident students who are currently enrolled
- District resident students who are currently enrolled
- District resident students who are not currently enrolled
- Non-resident students who are currently enrolled
- Siblings of non-resident students who are currently enrolled
- Non-resident students who are not currently enrolled
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What are Priority Periods?
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.
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When are the Priority Periods?
Priority Period 1 is from November 2nd through November 30th.
Priority Period 2 is December 1st until the school, grade or program being applied to reaches its capacity.
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Do I need to reapply for open enrollment each year?
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.
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Can open enrollment status be revoked?
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.