OUSD Lottery for K After TK Enrollment
Hello OUSD Parents,
I'm curious if anyone has info/experience on submitting the lottery a second time for Kinder after already having a school for TK.
If we don't receive any of our new K choices in the lottery, do we get to stay at our current school, or do I lose that spot and have to take the new assignment? If we add two or three choices to our options form, should we also list our currently enrolled elementary school again?
We've been satisfied with our TK experience & the community of our assigned school (not our neighborhood zoned school) but are thinking of doing the OUSD options again for K. The main reason is that our current school seems to decline on in-class achievement each subsequent grade, we aren't terribly thrilled with their After Care offering, and if we have a chance to get into a school on our commute route & near our preschool, it could make mornings an evenings less hectic. If we stayed where we are, we would most likely remain satisfied for another year or two, but the chance to see what else could happen is appealing.
Any thoughts?
Parent Replies
When you submit the Options form, only list schools that you would attend over your current school. If that means you only list two or three, that's fine. In past years, this meant that if you didn't get one of those, the system would bounce you back to your current school, even if not your neighborhood school (but confirm this for this year's enrollment process, since the online assignment system this year is new!) I do know that if you get into one of the schools you list, you lose your spot at your current school--it's not a situation where you then get to weigh your options. Good luck!