Garfield Re-2 Policies

JFBA

Intra-District Choice/Open Enrollment

The Board of Education endorses the neighborhood school concept and makes many decisions based on the student population within the attendance areas of residence.  The Board recognizes, however, that resident students may wish to attend a school or participate in a program located in an area other than that of their assigned school.  Therefore, students shall be allowed to attend any school or participate in any program of their own based on regulations outlined in JFBA-R.

In implementing the open enrollment program, the district is not required to:

1. Make alterations in the structure of a requested school or make alterations to the arrangement or function of rooms within a requested school.

2. Establish and offer any particular program in a school if such program is not offered currently in such school.

3. Alter or waive any established eligibility criteria for participation in a particular program, including age requirements, course prerequisites, and required levels of performance.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this policy, a student may be assigned outside the attendance area by mutual agreement of the principals in the special interest of the student and/or school.

Open Enrollment and Transfers

Resident students and their parents/guardians shall be notified on an annual basis of the options available through open enrollment in sufficient time to apply.

Students, including home-schooled students desiring to take classes on a part-time basis within designated attendance areas shall have priority in registering in that 

school.  Students may apply for open enrollment in a school outside their attendance and will be admitted based on eligibility and if available in the requested school and the application has been submitted on or before May 1 in accordance with the regulations accompanying this policy.

Parents and/or students who desire a change of school after August 15^th must submit a letter together with the required form requesting a transfer.  The request shall be reviewed and acted upon in accordance with the regulations accompanying this policy.

Open enrollment and transfer students attending a school outside their attendance area shall be granted enrollment on a year-to-year basis. 

Students granted permission to enroll in a school other than the school in their assigned attendance area shall have the same curricular and extracurricular status as all other students attending the school, as determined by applicable law, bylaws of the Colorado High School Activities Association, and the district's eligibility requirements.

Any student enrolled pursuant to this policy shall be allowed to remain enrolled in the school or program through the end of the school year unless overcrowding or other undesirable conditions develop, as described in the accompanying regulation. 

Transportation

Transportation for nonresident students who enroll pursuant to this policy must be furnished by their parents/guardians unless it is determined that transportation is necessary for the district to comply with state and federal law requirements for homeless students, students in foster care, and students with disabilities. For all other students, if arrangements can be made to have the student ride a district bus without disruption to regular routes and loading areas, parents must furnish transportation to a designated vehicle stop within the district.

Military Children

The district will allow an inbound active-duty military member to use the school liaison office address for the military installation to which the inbound active-duty military member is or will be assigned in order to apply for open enrollment in a district school or program. No additional documentation of an inbound active-duty military member’s child’s state address will be required to apply for open enrollment.

The district school or program in which the child of an inbound active-duty military member is open enrolled will grant guaranteed automatic matriculation while the child remains in the district, including guaranteed automatic matriculation to the next grade, even if the next grade is in a different school level or building, in the same manner, guaranteed automatic matriculation is provided to resident students. The district will also grant priority preference for the younger siblings of the child of an inbound active-duty military member who is open enrolled for purposes of enrolling in subsequent school years.

Nondiscrimination

The Board, the superintendent, other administrators, and district employees shall not unlawfully discriminate based on a student’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, creed, sex,or sexual orientation, which includes transgender, religion, marital status, disability or need of special education services in the determination or recommendation of action under this policy.

Special Education Students

The district shall not inquire about an applicant’s IEP or disability status until after the applicant has been admitted. Thereafter, the district shall consider the request for open enrollment or transfer to another school or program in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.  

Adopted: January 30, 1968

Revised: September 12, 1989

Revised: August 1994

Revised: October 22, 2002

Revised: November 27, 2007

Revised: September 10, 2013

Revised: March 13, 2018

Revised: May 10, 2023

LEGAL REFS.: C.R.S. 22-1-102 (definition of district resident)

C.R.S. 22-32-110 (1)(m) (power to fix boundaries)

C.R.S. 22-36-101 et seq. (open enrollment)

 CROSS REFS.: EEA, Student Transportation

IHBG, Home Schooling

JC, School Attendance Areas

JFABD, Homeless Students

JFABE*, Students in Foster Care

JFBB, Inter-District Choice/Open Enrollment

JJJ, Extracurricular Activity Eligibility

Garfield School District No. Re-2, Rifle, Colorado