Open Enrollment

Partnering with parents to select the best learning environment for every student.

Families who wish to enroll their student in a school other than their neighborhood school must use this tool to request Open Enrollment during one of two open enrollment periods DCSD offers annually. You do not need to use this open enrollment tool to stay at your school of current enrollment.

Click HERE for the DCSD Enrollment page

 Important Dates/Times

First Window: November 1, 2024 at 8am - December 2, 2024 at 4pm
Second Window: January 22, 2025 at 8am - August 1, 2025 at 4pm

• First round open enrollment is NOT first-come, first-served; you have until December 2, 2024 at 4pm to complete this process.
• For first round, you can change your open enrollment request choices at any time until December 2, 2024 at 4pm.
• Schools will make offers to families based on space availability.
• Offers will not be visible to you until after December 11, 2024 at 8am. You can log back into EngagED Parent Portal on or after December 11, 2024 at 8am to check on any offers you may have received.
• You have until December 18, 2024 at 4pm to accept an open enrollment offer from a school through the EngagED Parent Portal.
• If your open enrollment request is not accepted by any school, or you didn't log in and accept your offer, you will automatically be placed on the second round open enrollment waitlist, which runs from January 22, 2025 at 8am - August 1, 2025 at 4pm.

Transportation Information

• Transportation for resident students granted permission to attend a school or program outside their neighborhood attendance area shall be furnished by their parent/guardian.

 Kindergarten/Preschool Information

• NOTE: This application does not support applying to DCSD preschools. For DCSD preschools, click this link.
• Parents wishing to enroll their three & four year olds in district preschools do not go through open enrollment. Preschool registration will take place in early January. Follow this link for more information.

 General Information

• You may request that a confirmation email be sent to you after your request has been submitted.
• You can choose to have your choices emailed to you after you have completed open enrollment.
• Second round open enrollment is "first come first served." Students requesting open enrollment only in the second round are placed on the waitlist behind those that are currently on the waitlist from first round.
• If you are open enrolled at a neighborhood school or attend a charter but would like to return to the neighborhood school associated with your address for the next school year, you must file an intent to return form by January 10, 2025.
• If you are moving within the district but would like to remain at your current school, you may do so my filing an intent to remain form at any time.

 Participating Charter Schools

• The following Charter Schools will be utilizing the tool this year: Aspen View Academy, Ben Franklin Academy, Challenge to Excellence, DCS Montessori Charter, Leman Academy of Excellence, Parker Performing Arts School, SkyView Academy, STEM Academy and World Compass Academy. Please contact all other Charter schools directly to learn more about enrollment options for charter schools.

 BEFORE YOU BEGIN

If your son or daughter has ever attended a DCSD school, you already have a Parent Portal account username and password. Please DO NOT create a new account as this will potentially impact your student's open enrollment. If you have forgotten your Parent Portal account information, please contact your current DCSD school or the office of Choice Programming to access parent portal.

Attention Parents/Guardians:

The login process for accessing the EngagED Parent Portal has recently changed. Parents/guardians must now add @p.dcsdk12.org after their current username when logging into the EngagED Parent Portal. For example, if you have previously accessed with a username of absmith, you will now use [email protected] for your username along with your district password which has not changed.

If you need to change your district password and/or manage your account, you can do so on the DCSD website here. If you run into difficulty logging in to EngagED using the new login process outlined above, please contact the DCSD IT Department by clicking here, or calling 303-387-0001.