The first round of Open Enrollment for grades Kindergarten through 12 includes one school choice. For families with a student already attending an SCUSD school or a student who will be entering Santa Clara Unified for the 2021-2022 school year desiring to attend a school within the district, that is NOT your school of residence, this is the time to enter your request of Open Enrollment. We encourage all Open Enrollment applicants to attend one of our parent information tours.

Although the date of your application does not affect your chances in the lottery, we encourage you to begin the application process as early as possible as you may have questions or need assistance. Only one application per student will be accepted.

Deadline for First Round of Open Enrollment

The deadline for accepting or declining First Round Open Enrollment Placements is March 21, 2021.

The second round of Open Enrollment allows families a second opportunity to apply. Students who did not get accepted to their school of choice through the first round of Open Enrollment or who missed the deadline can apply during this window. Only one application per student will be accepted.

Listed below are the schools that have availability for Open Enrollment in the 2021-2022 school year:

Elementary Schools

• Bowers
• Bracher
• Braly
• Briarwood
• Don Callejon
• Hughes
• Mayne
• Montague
• Pomeroy
• Scott Lane
• Scott Lane Spanish Dual Language Immersion (Grades K-1)
• Sutter
• Westwood

Middle Schools

• Don Callejon
• Huerta

High Schools

• Santa Clara
• Wilcox

Deadline for Second Round of Open Enrollment

The deadline for accepting or declining Second Round Open Enrollment Placements is May 26, 2021.

If you accept your 2021-2022 open enrollment assignment, please notify, by email, the secretary/registrar at the school where your child was accepted to advise them that you are accepting the spot. Please do this by 4 p.m. on March 21, 2021, for First Round Open Enrollment and May 26, 2020, for Second Round Open Enrollment. 

If you do not accept your open enrollment assignment, please notify, by email, the secretary/registrar at the school to advise them you will not be attending, and email your home school to let them know that you will be attending your home school. Please do this by 4 p.m. on March 21, 2021, for First Round Open Enrollment and May 26, 2020, for Second Round Open Enrollment.

In your email, please include the following information:

• Student name
• Student grade
• Student permanent ID number (this was used during your open enrollment application)

Please send an email to your home school secretary/registrar to advise them regarding your plans for next year, including whether you will be attending your home school. Please do this by 4 p.m. on March 21, 2021, for First Round Open Enrollment and May 26, 2020, for Second Round Open Enrollment.

In your email, please include the following information:

• Student name
• Student grade
• Student permanent ID number (this was used during your open enrollment application)

Students requesting a change of school after the second round window is closed need to apply at the Enrollment Center through the Intradistrict Transfer Request process for schools that may have space available. Students accepted to attend a school on an Intradistrict Transfer must apply for the opportunity to continue at that school for the following school year through the Open Enrollment process. Only students accepted to a school through the Open Enrollment process are guaranteed placement for the following year. Please call the Enrollment Center at 408-423-3596 for more information.

Open Enrollment for our new schools — Abram Agnew Elementary and Dolores Huerta Middle School — will follow the same schedule as all of our other schools. For more information about the boundaries for these schools please visit our School Locator webpage.

Families wishing to enroll their child at Washington Open or Millikin Basics+ are encouraged to attend parent information tours. Each of these schools has a very different educational philosophy.

Please review the "Open Enrollment Priorities Clarified" section below so that you are aware of the different priority levels for Open Enrollment.

Peterson Middle School has a 6th grade program, Peterson+, that serves as a one year transition from a Basics approach to the eventual heterogeneous format found in Santa Clara Unified’s other middle and high schools. For the 2021-2022 school year, 135 students will be assigned to the four Peterson+ classes through a fair and random lottery process. For more information about the program, please visit Peterson Middle School Open Enrollment and Peterson + Program webpage.

Give your child the gift of a second language!

SCUSD launched its first Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program at Scott Lane Elementary in the fall of 2020. In a DLI program, native English-speaking students, native Spanish-speaking students, and Bilingual students learn together in the same classroom, interacting and developing language skills together. Please visit the Scott Lane DLI webpage for more information.

Both Scott Lane (grades 3 through 5) and George Mayne Elementary (grades 3 through 5) schools offer a Spanish Bilingual Program that focuses on helping children develop their English language skills while providing instruction in their home language. Students must be Spanish speakers to enroll. Families interested in having their student participate in this program should apply through Open Enrollment.

Open Enrollment does not apply to Transitional Kindergarten as our Open Enrollment policy applies to K-12 students only. For more information please visit the TK webpage.

Elementary schools receiving requests for admission shall give priority for attendance to:

1. Siblings* of students who are enrolled at the school at the time of open enrollment.
2. Students currently attending the school through the overload process and who apply for Open Enrollment during designated Open Enrollment windows.
3. The children of employees who work at the school.
4. The children of other employees.

Secondary schools receiving requests for admission shall give priority for attendance to:

1. Siblings* of students who are enrolled at the school at the time of open enrollment.
2. The children of employees who work at the school.
3. The children of other employees.
4. Siblings of graduates of the school, as long as the family continues to live within the SCUSD boundaries.

As long as the employee privilege remains in place, siblings of employees’ children attending district schools will be afforded the same priority status as resident siblings.

Note: Twins applying to the same school must be entered separately and will each receive a lottery number. When applying, also check the "Twins" box and enter the Permanent Student Number of the sibling twin.

You must register the student through the Enrollment Center to obtain an assigned permanent student number before initiating the online Open Enrollment process. For more information about how to register a student please visit the Enrollment Instructions webpage.

Obtaining a permanent student number may take up to two business days. The final day to obtain a permanent student number for open enrollment purposes is January 29, 2021. Families of students already attending school in Santa Clara Unified will need to obtain their child's permanent student number from the school their child is currently attending.

Students attending a school, other than their school of residence, on an Intradistrict Transfer must apply for the opportunity to continue at that school for the 2021-2022 school year through the Open Enrollment process. Only students accepted to a school through the Open Enrollment process are guaranteed placement for the following year. Once a student is accepted through Open Enrollment, the choice school becomes the student’s permanent placement through the grade span served at that school.

1. Determine your school of residence using the School Locator
2. Register online through our online registration system to obtain your permanent student number
   • Registration for the 2021-2022 school year opens January 6, 2021
3. Wait to receive your permanent student number from the Enrollment Center.
   • This can take up to two days from the date you submit your child’s registration form
4. Open the Round Two Open Enrollment Application 2021-2022
   • A link to the application will be available below from March 21, 2021, at 9 a.m. to April 30, 2021, at 4:30 p.m.
5. Log in to our online registration system, School Mint
6. Select the student you are applying for
7. Complete the form
8. Click “Submit Form”

Once you have completed the form, a pdf version of the Round One Open Enrollment Application 2021-2022 will be available on your Student Dashboard under your child’s name. 

Changes to Round One Open Enrollment Applications closed on February 3, 2021. The Enrollment Center will be processing requests daily Monday - Friday at 4 p.m.

*Note: When applying for Open Enrollment and reporting "sibling status" (i.e. a sibling is already enrolled at the school of choice; or in the case of high school, is or was enrolled at the school of choice) please be advised that the connecting link in the database to establish sibling status is the "siblings permanent identification number." If you are unsure of the sibling's permanent identification number, please contact the school office where the sibling is currently attending.

Round Two Open Enrollment closed at 4:30 p.m. on April 30, 2021.