From:	DPI Open Enrollment
Sent:	Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:37 AM
To:	Demrow, Jennifer   DPI
Subject:	Counted in Membership Tab in OPAL

To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators

From – Jen Demrow, Open Enrollment Consultant

Subject – Counted in Membership Tab in OPAL

**Please read this memo in its entirety, as there is no longer default information under the 
Counted in Membership tab in OPAL.**

Wis. Stat. 121.91(4)(p)1. provides a revenue limit exemption to a resident district that made an 
open enrollment payment for a pupil who was not included in the district’s revenue limit 
membership for the previous school year. 

One scenario where a resident school district would qualify for a revenue limit exemption 
would be when an alternative application pupil open enrolls out of the district after the 3rd 
Friday in September and was not included in the resident district’s membership report. 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.

The resident district must determine whether the alternative application pupil that appears on 
this tab was counted on the district’s 3rd Friday membership report. Counted in membership 
means one of two things – either the pupil was counted as a resident attending the district in 
the district’s Head Count or the pupil was counted as a Resident Addition (OE Transfer Out 
pupil) on the district’s 3rd Friday membership report. 

Resident districts should periodically review the Counted in Membership tab throughout the 
school year to monitor alternative application pupils who open enroll out during the school 
year. In previous years, OPAL automatically defaulted to “Counted in Membership”, but the 
default has been removed. 

In OPAL, please go to the Alt Apps tab, click on the Counted in Membership tab and change to 
Transfers Out. This tab includes a list of pupils who have transferred out of the resident district 
under an alternative application, with two columns titled “Counted in Membership” and “Not 
Counted in Membership”. 

For each pupil on this list, please select whether the student was counted in membership on 
the 3rd Friday Count date, which for this school year was September 18. 2020. 

We will still be sending verification lists in August, but by keeping track of this information 
throughout the school year, we are hoping to make this process more efficient. 

If you have any questions, please contact us at openenrollment@dpi.wi.gov or call us at 888-
245-2732, option 2. 

Jen Demrow
School Administration Consultant
Public School Open Enrollment
Department of Public Instruction
608-264-6707
Jennifer.Demrow@dpi.wi.gov 

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