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Q: What's going to happen to my school in 2012-2013?
A: Several different types of changes are being implemented for the 2012-2013 school year. Some changes are the result of new schools opening, other changes occurr to balance enrollment between existing schools. To see the schools whose boundaries are affected for the 2012-2013 school year, click on the Boundary Change List. If your neighborhood school is included on this list, it means that the attendance area for the school is changing. Click on your school's name to find out exactly what will be happening to your school's attendance boundary in 2012-2013. If your school is not on this list, it means the boundary is not changing this year. Your school may be affected by other kinds of changes, however. To find out, contact your local school, your Educational Service Center or School Management Services at 213-241-8044.
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Q: Do I live in an area affected by a boundary change?
A: All schools whose boundaries will be affected in School Year 2012-2013 are listed on the main Boundary Change List. If your neighborhood school is included on this list, it means that the attendance area for the school is changing. Click on your school's name and you will be taken to a map and explanation of exactly what will be happening to your school's attendance boundaries in 2012-2013. To find out what schools your address is assigned to as of School Year 2012-2013, use LAUSD's Resident School Identifier.
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Q: Why is my school's attendance boundary changing?
A: Your school's boundary is changing because LAUSD's New Construction program is opening a new school in your area as part of the District's Strategic Execution Plan (SEP), or because a boundary change is being implemented to better balance enrollments among several neighboring schools. LAUSD is building new schools to relieve serious over-crowding at neighboring schools. When a new school is built, it will need its own attendance area, which is usually created from portions of neighboring schools' attendance areas. In order to re-balance student enrollment at the schools involved, each school's boundary must be re-drawn. This redistributes the students more evenly across all the schools in the neighborhood while helping the overcrowded schools to get the enrollment relief they need. In some cases, a new school will share the same attendance boundary as an existing school (such as a new Primary Center that is relieving an Elementary School), and only re-assign students at certain grade levels (such as kindergarten, or 1st grade) to the new school.
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Q: What will my school's new attendance boundary be?
A: If your school is affected by the opening of a new school, you can see what the impact to the boundary will be by finding your school's name on the Boundary Change List. Click on your school's name to find out exactly what will be happening to your school's attendance boundary in 2012-2013. If your school is not on this list, it means the boundary is not changing in the 2012-13 school year.
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Q: What if my school is not changing in 2012-2013? Will any changes occur in 2013-2014, or after that?
A: Schools whose boundaries are not changing in 2012-2013 may change in the future due to ongoing activities that are part of the District's long-range capital master plan. For more information, see LAUSD's Strategic Execution Plan (SEP).
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Q: I live in an area that's being re-assigned due to boundary changes. Does my child have a choice to remain at his/her current school?
A: In most cases, your child will be re-assigned. However, some boundary changes involve re-assigning only specific grade levels. For example, in some cases, a new school will share the same attendance boundary as an existing school (such as a new Primary Center that is relieving an Elementary School), and will only re-assign students at certain grade levels (such as kindergarten, or 1st grade) to the new school. If your child was attending his or her neighborhood school, you can find out what the conditions of the grade-level assignments related to the boundary changes will be by going to the Boundary Change List and clicking on your school's name. The specific conditions of your school's assignment changes will be explained there.
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Q: What if only some of the grade levels in my school are being re-assigned in 2012-2013? What will happen after that?
A: In some cases where changes to a school's attendance area are being phased in beyond School Year 2012-2013, details about those changes will be included in the information contained in the Boundary Change List. Click on your school's name and you will be taken to an explanation of what will be happening to your school, if anything, after School Year 2012-2013. For further information, contact your local school, your Educational Service Center, or call School Management Services at 213-241-8044.
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Q: What do you mean when you say that an area is a school attendance "option area"?
A: An "option area" is a school attendance area that gives parents a choice of schools in which to enroll their children. Usually, an "option area" allows a parent to choose between two schools. Once a parent decides which school to enroll their child in, then the child will be permanently assigned to that school. However, if the school of choice is filled to capacity, then the child will automatically be assigned to the other school in the "option area".
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Q: When does the School Year begin and end?
A: A School Year begins on July 1st of one year and ends on June 30th of the next year. For example, School Year 2012-2013 begins on July 1, 2012 and ends June 30, 2013.
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Q: I live in an area that's being re-assigned to a different school. I see on the website that there will be additional new schools built that will open after School Year 2012-13. Will my child have to be re-assigned again?
A: All available data are utilized when planning for future needs so that repeated re-assignments can be avoided. Once a neighborhood area has been re-assigned to a different school, every effort is made to minimize instances where that same area would be re-assigned again within 5 years. LAUSD's new construction program involves hundreds of schools whose boundary changes all must be coordinated, so even as new schools are opening now, future school openings have already been planned and timed based on rigorous analysis of the expected needs of each area. While this long-range plan has already been developed, however, the specific areas that may be re-assigned in the future will continue to be subject to change until the many details involved in making up the plan have been finalized. Once those details have been finalized, any specific information on areas being re-assigned will be made available. Every effort will be made to ensure that those details are made available by approximately 6 months prior to the opening of the corresponding new schools involved.
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Q: My child attends a Magnet school. Will a boundary change affect my child?
A: If your child was attending a Magnet school, he or she will be able to continue to attend that school as long as the conditions for that assignment remain unchanged. For more information, contact LAUSD's magnet schools program at the Office of Student Integration Services at 877-462-4798.
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Q: My child is being bused to a Capacity Adjustment Program (CAP) receiver school. Will she/he still go to the CAP school?
A: In LAUSD's new construction program, relief from overcrowding includes the anticipation that children who have been displaced from their neighborhood schools through the Capacity Adjustment Program (CAP) will be able to return to them once overcrowding is relieved. If you prefer that your child continue to attend the CAP receiver school, however, your child will be able to continue there as long as the conditions for that assignment remain unchanged. To confirm whether space will be available for your child to return to your neighborhood school, contact the local school directly, or contact School Management Services at 213-241-8044 for more information about the CAP.
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Q: My child is being bused to a school on a Permit With Transportation (PWT). Will she/he still go to the PWT school?
A: In LAUSD's new construction program, relief of overcrowding includes the anticipation that children who have been displaced from their neighborhood schools on a Permit With Transportation (PWT) will be able to return to them once overcrowding is relieved. If you prefer that your child continue to attend the PWT school, your child will be able to continue there as long as the conditions for that assignment remain unchanged. To confirm whether space will be available for your child to return to your neighborhood school, contact the local school directly, or contact the Office of Student Integration Services at 877-462-4798 for more information on the PWT program.
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Q: My child attends a school through Open Enrollment. Will she/he still go to that school?
A: If your child is attending a school through an open enrollment transfer, he or she will be able to continue to attend that school as long as the conditions for that assignment remain unchanged. If you prefer that your child now attend your neighborhood school, contact the neighborhood local school directly or call School Management Services at 213-241-8044 to confirm whether space will be available for your child to return.
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Q: What calendar will my school be operating on?
A: If your school is affected by the opening of a new school, there may be changes to its multi-track or single-track calendar for 2012-13. Your school's calendar may be affected by other kinds of changes, too. To find out, contact your local school, your Educational Service Center, or call School Management Services at 213-241-8044.
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Q: What do you mean by school "capacity"?
A: School capacity refers to the amount of space that a school has to accommodate students. The capacity is affected by multiple factors, including school calendar and full-day kindergarten. If you would like information about new school capacities, calendars, student enrollments, or if a new school has a full-day kindergarten, contact your local school, your Educational Service Center, or call the Master Planning & Demographics Unit at 213-241-8044.
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Q: What will my school's enrollment be after changes have taken place?
A: If your school is affected by the opening of a new school, there may be changes to its enrollment. Your school's enrollment may be affected by other kinds of changes, too. To find out, contact your local school, your Educational Service Center, or call the Master Planning & Demographics Unit at 213-241-8044.
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Q: Will I be able to print the maps and other information that is available for my school?
A: Yes. To print maps and other documents on your printer, you will need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click here to download the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader to your computer. Depending on the speed of your computer, images may take a few minutes to open and print.
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Q: What is a Priority Application area?
A: A Priority Application area is a designated boundary area with specific grade levels where a student resident to that area can choose to apply to a particular alternate school other than the local resident school. An application must be submitted to the school which is offering the alternative to the regular resident school. The alternative school will notify each student who applies as to whether they have been accepted to attend the alternate school.
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Q: What is a phase-in boundary?
A: A phase-in boundary is an attendance boundary which has been changed for a specific grade range (for example, K-5) but only a portion of those grade levels will change for the first year (for example, K only). In the following years the next higher grades (for example, K-1 only) will be included until all the grades that have been designated to change schools have been included at the school which will be receiving the students. A K-5 boundary change which would start the first year with only a K change would take six years to be complete; K the first year, K-1 the second year, K-2 the third year, K-3 the fourth year, K-4 the fifth year, and finally K-5 the sixth year.
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Q: I still have general questions about LAUSD. Where can I get more information?
A: More answers to Frequently Asked Questions are available at LAUSD FAQs, or you may wish to visit LAUSD's main website. You can also contact your Educational Service Center, call School Management Services at 213-241-8044, or contact the LAUSD Office of Communications at 213-241-6766.
