**Elementary summer enrollment is taking place at the Education Service Center from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.**
Please bring the below required documentation:

• Enrollment Form
• Age Verification (Birth Certificate or Passport)
• Proof of Residency (Current Utility Statement or Rental Agreement)
• Current Immunizations - Click here for K-12 Immunization Guidelines

Elementary Enrollment Procedures for New Students

How to Enroll:  

Enrollment opens on March 1 each year, with a priority deadline of March 31 for both new and returning students. Applications submitted after March 31 will still be accepted, but placement is subject to availability.

A completed enrollment submission is to be done in person at your home school with the following documentation:

• Enrollment Form
• Age Verification (Birth Certificate or Passport)
• Proof of Residency (Current Utility Statement or Rental Agreement)
• Current Immunizations - Click here for K-12 Immunization Guidelines

School staff will then email a Snap-Code to be used for the online enrollment process. The parent or guardian then completes the enrollment process online. Registration is not complete until the online portion is completed.Once enrollment is submitted, PowerSchool will date and time stamp your enrollment packet. This ensures we load classes fairly and equitably. The date and time stamp will be the order in which new students are accepted into classes at the home school.
For students in grades TK–5:
If there is no space available at the student's home boundary school, they may be overflowed to another school with available space.

Class Sizes and Availability:
FCUSD opts into Class Size Reduction (CSR) funding for grades TK-3. This means:

• TK classes cannot go above 20 students
• Grades K-3 class sizes range from 24 - 28 students. Classes may not go over 28 students.
• The school must maintain a school-wide average of 24:1 in grades TK-3

Grade-level space is determined by class sizes, contract requirements, and physical space at the school. For example, the class size for 4th and 5th grade is set at 34 students per class, so the 35^th student to enroll would be overflowed to a neighboring school. 

If registration is completed after March 31, families may be notified within 5 days of the start of the school year or within 3 days of completed enrollment during the school year that space is not available. 

Overflow Procedures
On occasion, FCUSD will need to overflow students in grades TK-5. This occurs when a school is at maximum CSR capacity in grades TK-3, and/or the grade level is at contractual limit at the time of registration. 

• Priority:  Returning students, based on seniority enrollment date, and their siblings have priority for re-enrollment if completed by the published deadlines. New students who complete registration first have preference for remaining space at the school. Once a grade level is full, or the school is at CSR capacity, overflow students are selected by their FCUSD seniority date.  
• Siblings:  FCUSD tries to keep siblings together during the overflow process. If FCUSD can keep the siblings together, they will be considered overflow students and will be bussed to the receiving school. An effort is made to bring siblings back to the home boundary school if space becomes available. 
• Transportation:  Transportation is provided free of charge from school to school for students who have been redirected to another school. The Home boundary school office staff will facilitate paperwork and give parents/guardians the bus route number, bus stop location, and pick-up time. Parents are asked to assist students so that they get on the bus at their home boundary school. 

Returning Overflow Process

FCUSD makes an effort to return overflowed students to the homeschool when space becomes available. Office staff will keep track of the redirected students and can update parents on the waitlist upon request. To ensure classroom stability, we do not call students back from overflow after October 31. If you’d like your student to return to their home boundary school after this date, please work with the school office staff to help you with this request. 

Spots may open at the home boundary school due to attrition. The turnover of students during the school year can be difficult to predict. This timeframe could be a few days, weeks, months, or an indefinite period, depending on whether or not there is a drop in enrollment at your home school. 

For impacted schools​, students will be enrolled and loaded into classes for the following year based on the following:

1. Students who attended the school and enrolled by the March 31st deadline.
2. Students who were overflowed from the school and completed their enrollment by March 31st.
3. New students for the upcoming year by the time, date, and stamp.  

Enrollment Procedures for Returning Students

PowerSchool (PS) online registration will open on the first school day in March. Complete the PS online registration process by March 31. To do this, you will need your PowerSchool Parent Portal username and password. If you don’t know this information, contact your child’s school. 

Enrollment Procedure for Matriculating Students

• Students matriculating from an FCUSD school from 5th to 6th or from 8th to 9th are required to provide proof of residency (current utility statement or rental/escrow agreement)
• Current FCUSD students changing schools in the middle of the school year are required to provide proof of residency.

When registering a new student, the parent/guardian must complete a New Student Enrollment form and provide verification of age, residency, and immunization status to the home boundary school. A home boundary school is the school a student is assigned to based on the student’s home address. Click HERE to find your home boundary school.

School Choice Applications

• If a parent/guardian would like their student to attend a school that is not their home boundary school, they must complete a choice application at the time of registration. Click HERE for the choice application.

Students who reside within the District's attendance area may apply for open enrollment in any District school, provided the school of choice has space available. Applications for intradistrict open enrollment shall be submitted between January - March of the school year preceding the school year for which the transfer is requested. Any choice applications submitted after the deadline may be denied. A student who currently attends a school and resides within that school’s attendance area shall not be displaced by another student who transfers from outside the attendance area. 

School Choice Application forms are submitted to the homeschool during the registration period for the following school year. School Choice Applications submitted during the registration period will be considered at the same time and not on a first-come, first-served basis. If necessary, the determination of space availability will be selected through a random, unbiased process.      

School Choice applications are not for entrance to the following schools:

• Riverview STEM Academy
• Academy of Advanced Learning at Theodore Judah Elementary

Please see the school websites for more information on enrollment and acceptance criteria.

The FCUSD Legacy Choice Policy, due to boundary changes, can be found here. 

Enrollment Priorities 

These priorities apply during the district-established registration period

Admission Requirements:

1.   No student currently attending a school and residing within the school's attendance area shall be displaced by another student transferring from outside the attendance area (Education Code 35160.5), unless (s)he fails to register by the district-established deadline.

2.  All students will register each year by the district-established deadline.

Admission to a given school will be determined by the following enrollment priorities:Students who live in the school attendance area and are returning from inter-district transfer agreements

1. Returning students and siblings who currently reside within the school attendance area, as designated by the district database.
2. Students returning to neighborhood home school who enrolled during the previous school year, but were transferred to another school due to overcrowding (overflow).
3. Students who were attending another school on “Choice”, and who cannot now be accommodated at that school; and, additionally, in some cases, to receive (parent-requested) Special Education services.
4. Academy for Advanced Learning at Theodore Judah, Spanish Magnet at Folsom Hills, STEM Academy at Riverview, Montessori Program at Carl Sundahl, Special Education, Administratively placed, and Transitional English students. These students will be considered as mandated placement by the District, and need not live within the local school attendance area.
5. New students with legal residence within neighborhood school attendance area.
6. Students attending identified Title I Program Improvement schools who have been notified by the district of their option to transfer to available spaces at other district non-identified schools, and have requested such placement (ESEA Title I Part A Section 116 (b) (1) (E).
7. Students continuing under an inter-district transfer agreement approved for five years by the Office of Attendance and Due Process, unless the student transfers to another school.

Intra-district agreement (Choice) students

8. Sandra J. Gallardo Elementary School only: students from The Shores and Quail Chase housing subdivisions have “priority choice”.
9. Students under intra-district agreement (Choice) approved for the prior school year, and who remain at that school. Both the length of time attending a site on a “Choice” agreement and the placement of siblings together will be taken into account when possible.
10. Siblings of Transitional Kindergarten, Academy for Advanced Learning, and Spanish Magnet Programs.
11. Students with verified child care within the “Choice” school's attendance area.
12. New intra-district “Choice” students.

New out-of-district students (Inter-district Requests)

13. New inter-district applicant approved by the Office of Attendance and Due Process and the site-level administrator.

Independent Study

If your student will be absent from school for a period of 3 -15 consecutive school days due to travel or another reason, please contact your student's school office at least 10 school days before the leave of absence to request an Independent Study Agreement.

Independent Study Duration: 3 days minimum – 15 days maximum per school year

How Absences Can Affect Enrollment:

FCUSD does not offer Independent Study during the first two weeks of instruction or the last two weeks of instruction. If you choose not to attend during the first two weeks, your student may be disenrolled after the 3rd day of instruction. Upon your return, you will have to re-enroll your student. Since the district will not hold spots for students not attending school, your student may be overflowed at that time. If at any time you are disenrolled, your child’s seniority date will readjust to your new application date. 

*The seniority of your enrollment status will be lost if you are disenrolled for non-attendance. When you re-enroll upon your return, this date will be your official enrollment date. 

*If your home-boundary school enrollment is impacted and you choose to keep your child out of school outside of the Independent Study guidelines, your student may be disenrolled per FCUSD Administrative Regulation 5111: Admission. 

• 3 days of absence with no contact/no show, on the 4th day of instruction, the student may be disenrolled. The student is still guaranteed a spot within the FCUSD, but not at the district's homeschool. Middle School and High School students may not get preferred classes. 
• 10 days of absence with contact made by parents, the student may be disenrolled on the 11th day of instruction. The student is still guaranteed a spot within the FCUSD, but not the district homeschool. Middle School and High School students may not get preferred classes.  

Appeal Process

Parents/guardians may appeal in writing in the order below. Please include detailed information regarding your concerns and circumstances in the appeal. The decision by Education Services is final.

• Principal
• Director of Education Services