From:	Danfield, Jennifer L.  DPI on behalf of DPI Open Enrollment
Sent:	Friday, June 1, 2018 8:29 AM
To:	Danfield, Jennifer L.  DPI
Subject:	Withdrawing Current OE Students Before the Beginning of the Next School 
Year

To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators
 
From – Jen Danfield, Open Enrollment Consultant
 
Subject – Withdrawing Current OE Students Before the Beginning of the Next School Year
 
There is a feature in OPAL that will allow you to withdraw students during the summer or at the 
end of the school year, so they will not be rolled over to the 2018-19 school year and will not be 
on the 3rd Friday in September list.  

Since the OPAL rollover occurs on August 1, to keep students from being rolled over into 2018-
19, the summer withdrawal must be entered and approved by the other district before the end 
of the day on July 31.

In order to complete a student’s summer withdrawal, from the Students page and the Actively 
Open Enrolled tab, click on the student’s name to bring up their Student Summary page.  Click 
on the Withdraw Student tab, click Edit, and enter the withdrawal information under the 
“Summer Withdrawals” section.  

It is not necessary to withdraw graduating seniors.  They will be dropped from the All Students 
list as part of the rollover.  This also applies to 8th graders in K-8 districts. 

If you are looking for further instructions on how to withdraw pupils, there is a Camtasia 
presentation titled “Withdrawing Students in OPAL” on our Training webpage at 
https://dpi.wi.gov/open-enrollment/resources/training.  

If you have any questions, please contact us at openenrollment@dpi.wi.gov or call us 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