From: DPI Open Enrollment Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 9:06 AM To: Danfield, Jennifer L. DPI Subject: K-8 Districts Changing to UHS Districts for Transfers Out to K-12 Districts To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators From – Jen Danfield, Open Enrollment Consultant Subject – K-8 Districts Changing to UHS Districts for Transfers Out to K-12 Districts As you know, the resident district for 8th graders who live in K-8 districts will change to the UHS district when they enter 9th grade. To prepare OPAL for the upcoming school year, we are asking K-8 districts to submit an OPAL request to change the resident district next year for your current Transfer Out 8th graders to the UHS district for next year. This should be done only for pupils who are open enrolled out of the K-8 district and are attending a K-12 district. If a pupil is a K-8 resident and is open enrolled and attending another K-8 school, it is not necessary to make this update. As a result of making these updates, when OPAL rolls over for the 2017-18 school year, there should not be any 9th graders in the Transfers Out lists for K-8 districts and the pupil should properly appear in the Transfers Out lists for the UHS district. In order to make this update, in OPAL, change to your Transfers Out list under the Actively Open Enrolled tab and click on the pupil’s name. On their Student Summary page, click the Change Enrollment tab, click Edit, then change the Resident District Next Year to the correct UHS district located in the dropdown box, then click Save. Once this change has been approved by the nonresident district, the UHS district will receive an email notification of this change. For the UHS districts, please pay attention to these emails, so you will not be surprised when the pupil shows up on your Transfers Out list in the fall. Again, this only has to be done for open enrolled pupils who are attending a K-12 district and their resident district is a K-8 district. 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 3 Jennifer.Danfield@dpi.wi.gov