From:	Danfield, Jennifer L.  DPI
Sent:	Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:58 PM
To:	Danfield, Jennifer L.  DPI
Subject:	Revenue Limit Exemption for Prior Year Open Enrolled Pupils

To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators
 
From – Jen Danfield, Open Enrollment Consultant
 
Subject – Revenue Limit Exemption for Prior Year Open Enrolled Pupils
 
Many of you are noticing on the 2015-16 Pre-Populated Revenue Limit Worksheet updated and 
posted by the School Finance team today that you have a “prior year open enrollment” revenue 
limit exemption on Item 10E.  This refers to pupils who open enrolled out of your school district 
who were not included in your membership at the time you levied for the 2014-15 school year.  

We will be sending out a mailing on Thursday, October 15th to districts that were found eligible 
for the revenue limit exemption, which includes the name of the pupil and the revenue limit 
exemption amount.  The mailing will be sent to open enrollment contacts and school finance 
contacts in your district.

There are two categories of these pupils:

*	When the legislature enacted the alternative application (exception) legislation, it 
provided for a revenue limit exemption (equal to the amount of the open enrollment 
payment) for pupils who attended under the alternative application procedure and who 
had not been counted by the resident district on the 3rd Friday.  This usually includes 
pupils who moved in from out of state or another Wisconsin school district or who had 
previously been attending a private school or homeschooling. 

To see the list of pupils for whom you received this exemption, in OPAL, click on the 
Counted in Membership tab under the Alt Apps tab.  Click on “Transfers Out” and switch 
the year to “2014-15”.  You will see a list of pupils who may have transferred under an 
alternative application, with two columns titled “Counted in Membership” and “Not 
Counted in Membership”.  You are eligible for the prior year open enrollment 
exemption for those pupils who were “Not Counted in Membership”.  The last column 
shows the amount of the revenue limit exemption. 

For pupils with disabilities, the amount shown is $0.  To determine the amount of the 
exemption, click on the pupil’s name.  This will take you to the Student Summary page, 
which shows how many days the pupil was open enrolled.  Multiply the number of days 
by $36.86 ($18.43 for .5 FTE and $21.12 for .6 FTE) for the amount of the open 
enrollment payment/revenue limits exemption. 

*	The other category of pupils eligible for the exemption is any open enrolled pupils who 
had not been included in the revenue limit membership used for the levy.  This category 
is made up of pupils whose resident district in OPAL was incorrect at the time the 
resident district levied and which was later corrected.  Even if the district later amends 
its membership and recalculates the revenue limit, the district would already have 
levied for that year and cannot go back and increase the levy.  Therefore, the district is 
eligible for the same type of exemption in the following school year, equal to the 
amount of the open enrollment payment.  

Any district that had pupils who might be eligible for this exemption received a mailing from us 
to ascertain whether the pupil had been included in the revenue limit membership. 

If you have any corrections to what was entered into OPAL for your district, please let us know 
by Friday, October 23rd by sending us an email. 

If you have any questions, please contact us at openenrollment@dpi.wi.gov or at 888-245-2732, 
option 2.   
 
Jen Danfield
School Administration Consultant
Public School Open Enrollment
Department of Public Instruction
608-264-6707 or 888-245-2732, option 2, then 1
Jennifer.Danfield@dpi.wi.gov