CHAPTER 5.00 - STUDENTS

5.03 Student Assignment 

The School Board has established residential attendance zones for each school based upon the Superintendent’s recommendation. All students, unless otherwise provided by School Board rule or authorized by the School Board’s order, shall attend the school serving the student’s residential attendance zone. Each residential attendance zone shall be established to achieve maximum utilization of all School Board facilities and to consider the time and distance of travel for students. The instructional capacity for each school will be set yearly by the School Board after the recommendation by the Superintendent or his/her designee (“Instructional Capacity”). For the purposes of this policy, Enrollment Capacity is defined as ten percent less than the Instructional Capacity. A student’s residence is the residence of his/her parent(s), legal guardian, legal custodian, or other such person as defined by any order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state of Florida and by Florida Statutes. Any student residing in the School District shall be assigned to a school for attendance by the Superintendent or designee based upon the Controlled School Choice Program.

I. No student shall be permitted to transfer, enroll, or be admitted to a school when he/she has been expelled or suspended from another school district. This prohibition shall be effective for the period of time in which the student was expelled or suspended from another district. Such students shall be accorded the same appeals procedure, which is available to District students. However, under 1006.07, F.S., the Superintendent may recommend to the School Board that the other district’s final order of expulsion be waived and the student be admitted. The School Board shall make the final decision.

II. A student may be permitted to attend a school in another residential attendance zone pursuant to the Controlled Open Enrollment Plan adopted by the School Board.

III. Any student whose legal residence is outside the boundaries of the county may not be enrolled in a District school, except under the provisions of Florida Statutes and the Controlled Open Enrollment Plan. The assigned school for an out-of-district student shall be designated on the basis of space available. Such transfers shall be on a nondiscriminatory basis and shall not result in reducing desegregation in either school district or in reinforcing the dual school system.

IV. Student who has been attending, in the year prior to the designation, a public school that has been designated as performance grade category “F”, or has earned three (3) consecutive grades of “D”, or a student who is assigned to a public school that has been designated as performance grade category “F” or has earned three (3) consecutive grades of “D”, may attend a higher performing public school in the District or a school in another district as allowed by law.

V. An individual who is eighteen (18) years of age desiring to enroll or reenroll in the school system and who is not currently within one (1) year of meeting graduation requirements will be referred to an Adult Education Program by the Board. Individuals who are 19 years of age or older will be referred to Adult Education. However, the Board may be petitioned by the student or his/her parents for placement in the school system on probationary status. This is not applicable to students in Exceptional Education.

Statutory Authority: 1001.41; 1001.42, F.S.

Laws Implemented: 1000.21, 1001.41; 1001.42; 1001.43; 1001.51; 1002.20; 1002.31;

1002.38; 1002.39; 1002.394; 1002.395; 1006.07; 1011.68, F.S.

History:

Adopted: January 14, 1999

Revision Date(s): October 7, 2003; September 12, 2006; April 11, 2017; November 16, 2021; October 11, 2022

Formerly: