Seattle Schools Enrollment - Assignments and Waitlist Now Available
From SPS Communications:
If you submitted one of the 5,300 choice applications we received during the Open Enrollment period, you can now view the results. The Assignment and Waitlist link has been updated for the 2015-16 school year.
Use the link to see your student’s 2015-16 assignment and any wait list placements. You will need your student’s identification number and birthdate.
If you did not request a different assignment during Open Enrollment and have not submitted at change to your home address, your student’s assignment hasn't changed.
Printed assignment letters will be mailed to home addresses the week of April 27.
Second applications for choice enrollment will be accepted beginning May 1, 2015. The choice forms remain posted on the Admissions main page.
If you have questions about school assignments for the 2015-16 school year, please call the Service Center at (206) 252-0760.
But not until Monday.
If you submitted one of the 5,300 choice applications we received during the Open Enrollment period, you can now view the results. The Assignment and Waitlist link has been updated for the 2015-16 school year.
Use the link to see your student’s 2015-16 assignment and any wait list placements. You will need your student’s identification number and birthdate.
If you did not request a different assignment during Open Enrollment and have not submitted at change to your home address, your student’s assignment hasn't changed.
Printed assignment letters will be mailed to home addresses the week of April 27.
Second applications for choice enrollment will be accepted beginning May 1, 2015. The choice forms remain posted on the Admissions main page.
If you have questions about school assignments for the 2015-16 school year, please call the Service Center at (206) 252-0760.
But not until Monday.
Comments
HP
It sounds to me like students who live in RBHS's attendance area but want to attend another school will not be allowed to do so if this will have a negative effect on the RBHS budget. Is that fair to these students?
In another attachment to the memo, we hear that Chief Sealth's enrollment will be dropping by 139 students next year. Very surprising. The only change I'm aware of is the transfer of Sanislo's attendance area from Chief Sealth to WSHS.
-HS Parent
SL
I am confused by the second application round for school choice, too.
It doesn't say the choice forms are due May 1st, it says that second applications for school choice will be accepted BEGINNING May 1st.
Though, if you click on the instructions for the school choice process, it clearly states in red that school choice applications are due during open enrollment. I couldn't find any info regarding a second round of choice applications.
I have no idea what these second applications are. Are they a second chance to try to get into a school other than your assigned school? Did you have to put in a first application during open enrollment to be eligible to put in a second one after May 1st?
Very strange and confusing.
- North-end Mom
Maybe this is just an official dividing line between open enrollment forms and the "rest"?
Also, advanced learning applications are probably continuing to come in, so I'm not sure where those fall in this.
SL
Spectrum assignments have already been made. If you requested and were assigned a Spectrum seat and your child didn't qualify for Spectrum, you'll be bumped out and the first person on the wait list will get that spot.
I would think Spectrum assignment isn't as much of an issue anymore (except at Fairmount Park, Lafayette and Whittier.) in middle school, all qualified students are guaranteed a seat. The other elementary programs are blended models - so there'd be no reason to limit those seats.
SL
NE Parent
I expect the waitlists to have a lot of movement between now and the beginning of the school year. There isn't much incentive for parents who know their students won't attend schools next year to notify the school district this far in advance. I would expect as kids choose to go to private schools, move from the district, get off the waitlists at other schools, etc ... we will see movement as more spots open up. I can definitely empathize with the frustration of not knowing, but I also recognize how difficult it is to coordinate the volume of applications, etc ...
T
T
We are on the waiting list for our closest school (also an option school) but am concerned that the waitlist will be dissolved Aug. 15. Last year I had friends on this same waitlist and people weren't even contacted until the first week of school. If people are not reporting if they will be attending or not, how are these numbers worked out until school starts?
Confused and very frustrated!