Want to know more about the K-12 Open Enrollment process? See our Fact Sheet below.
Applicants MUST be residents of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) at the time of application and while participating in Open Enrollment.
Parents or guardians should plan to provide their own transportation for open enrollment transfer students. Transportation is not provided by LAUSD through the program.
Applications are limited to schools that have declared Open Enrollment seats available for school year 2024-2025.
Open Enrollment applications can be submitted online or at the school of choice.
Applications must be complete and accurate.
Parents or guardians can apply to one or more schools.
If parents are applying to send several children to the same school, they must complete a separate application for each child – please complete the sibling section on each application submitted.
Parents/Guardians who submit an application online will receive all correspondence electronically, including the status of the application.
If there are more applicants than there is space at a particular school, an electronic drawing will take place at LAUSD's Central Offices.
If you applied to more than one school and were accepted into more than one school, you can only accept one school placement. Once you accept a school placement, all other Open Enrollment offers will be automatically declined.
To keep families together, siblings of Open Enrollment students shall be issued an Open Enrollment Transfer.
An Open Enrollment Transfer is school-specific and is valid through the final grade offered by the school.
Annual renewal is not required. The student can remain at the school through the last applicable academic year available.
The transfer cannot be cancelled by the school.
If a parent/guardian withdraws their child from the school, the student cannot return to the school at a later date under the previous Open Enrollment Transfer. A new application would need to be submitted and selected in the next application cycle.
To matriculate to the next school level, a new application must be submitted to the school of choice as desired.
Denial of an Open Enrollment Application is final and not subject to appeal.
