Iowa City School District Transfer Information 

The Iowa City Community School District will discontinue parent requests for
transfers from City High School to West High School and assignment of open
enrollment students from other school districts to West High beginning immediately. West High School enrollment continues to increase
limiting space for transfers and open enrollment students. Exceptions would be if
the student was rescinding a transfer to City and returning to the West High attendance area. Transfer and open enrollment requests will be
approved to City High School.  

Following are the transfer parameters for the 2007-2008 school year based upon building capacity and class size. For buildings or grade levels that are open to transfers, the following class size parameters will be used 

1) K-2 - transfers reviewed in May will be approved up to a projected class size of 17 and in August up to 19. 

2) 3-6 - transfers reviewed in May will be approved up to a projected class size of 23 and in August up to 25 

3) Preference will be given to a student transfer requests under the following parameters:
a. Siblings of a student assigned outside their attendance area will be given first preferential consideration for a transfer (student is assigned to a special education program in another building and sibling wishes to request a transfer to the same building). If the transfer request would result in exceeding the class size parameters, the request will be reviewed on an individual basis with the building principal.
b. Siblings of students previously approved for transfer will be given second preferential consideration for a transfer. In case where more than one student at a grade level (s) has a sibling in a school, a lottery will be held to determine order of preference within this category. Open enrollment siblings will also be included in the category and will be given the same preference as resident students. 

4) Transfers of students whose parents/guardians are staff in the district will not be guaranteed the right to attend the school of their request nor given preferential consideration for a transfer. They will be reviewed under the same transfer procedures as all transfer requests. 

5) Transfers will be considered permanent except if boundaries are changed.
 

Elementary Transfers for 2007-2008
Coralville Central - Open
Hills - Open
Hoover - Open
Horn - Open
Kirkwood - Open, limited to some grade levels
Lemme - Open
Lincoln - Open
Longfellow - Open
Lucas - Open
Mann - Open
Penn - Open
Roosevelt - Open, Limited to some grade levels
Shimek - Open
Twain - Open
Van Allen - Closed
Weber - Closed
Wickham - Open
Wood - Closed 

Secondary Transfers for 2007-2008
North Central Junior High - Open
Northwest Junior High - Open
South East Junior High - Open
City High - Open
West High - Closed 

For more information Visit The Iowa City School District Webiste
 

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