Northville Schools Open Enrollment Deadline This Week

Open enrollment is an option for students who don't want to transfer schools.

However, it is a year-to-year process so there is no guarantee that a student will be accepted each year, said Northville schools Superintendent Mary Kay Gallagher. 

The deadline for submitting an open enrollment request for the 2013-14 school year is Friday.

The school board voted last month to adopt Elementary Option 1, which reassigns a portion of the current Ridge Wood attendance area to Winchester Elementary School, and Option 4, which will reassign a portion of the current Ridge Wood Elementary students from Meads Mill Middle School's attendance area to Hillside Middle School's attendance area. 

At the schools impacted by the boundary changes, students who have one year left in their current school of attendance will be given priority for open enrollment, Gallagher said in a district email.

That applies to current fourth grade students impacted by the elementary attendance boundary change and current seventh grade students impacted by the middle school attendance boundary change, she said.

A letter must be submitted requesting open enrollment to David Rodgers, director of Human Resources with copies sent to each of the building principals involved, no later than Friday. Open enrollment letters must be submitted annually and there are no guarantees that siblings will remain in the same building.

Those making requests can expect a tentative response by the end of June, according to the district.