Friday, February 1, 2013
Find information on open enrolling your child in the following districts: Greenfield, Oak Creek, Whitnall, Franklin and Greendale.
Looking to open enroll your child in a school district other than the one in which you live for the 2013-14 school year? Area school districts have openings in a number of grade levels from the elementary level to the high school level. Some districts have more available seats than others. Whitnall School Board approved 80 new Open Enrollment seats for the 2013-14 school year Monday. A bulk of those seats will be available for incoming ninth-graders (20 new seats) and incoming sixth-graders (30). Neighboring district, Greenfield, approved 51 seats. There will be 10 available seats for both junior kindergarten and ninth grade, no more than five at any other grade level and none in neither the eighth or 12th grades. The Greendale School …
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
About 5 percent of Oak Creek-Franklin students live outside the district.
How many students go to Oak Creek-Franklin schools but don't live here? To be exact, 332 students attend Oak Creek schools through the state's Open Enrollment program. That accounts for about 5 percent of the district's total enrollment, a figure that has stayed pretty consistent over the last several years, Superintendent Sara Burmeister said. School district administrators presented the Oak Creek-Franklin School Board with the 2011-12 Open Enrollment numbers at a committee meeting Monday night. The state program allows students who live in one district to attend school in a different one. Of all the students attending Oak Creek schools through Open Enrollment, 45 percent live in Milwaukee, 39 percent live in the Racine Unified School …
Monday, January 3, 2011
School Board could incorporate state measure allowing districts to reject applicants who constantly skip school.
A change in state policy may give the Oak Creek-Franklin School Board greater flexibility in who it accepts under the state's Open Enrollment program. Under the new rules, a school board is allowed to reject an applicant who was identified as a "habitual truant" the previous semester or year. "Habitual truant" is defined as someone who misses school without an acceptable excuse for five or more days in a semester. The district could also remove a student attending one of its schools through Open Enrollment if he or she gets the habitual-truant designation. The School Board will consider whether to incorporate the state's new measure into its own policies. A committee which met in December generally agreed with the proposal. Open …
Leah Fleischman
11:01 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Crazy to think how much my school (whitnall) has expanded through open enrollment. I remember my 1st grade class only having 15 students. more ›