Enrollment Key Dates for 2024-25
Remaining Enrollment Key Dates for 2024-25 Link to this section
Dates the Enrollment Center (EC) is Closed for Professional Development
| DATE | DESCRIPTION |
| September 3, 2024 | Spring Transfer Request window opens. |
| November 8, 2024 | Last day to submit, revise, or cancel a Spring Transfer application. |
| December 16, 2024 | SY24-25 Spring Transfer assignment letters mailed to families who applied by 11/8. Note: transfer results are final (no option to accept/decline). |
| December 23, 2024 - January 10, 2025 | Winter Open Enrollment Period for families who want to change schools. Dec. 23-24: open on phone and email (office closed) Dec. 25: closed for holiday Dec. 26-27 and Dec. 30-31: open on phone and email (office closed) Jan. 1, 2025: closed for holiday Jan 2-3 and Jan. 6-10: Enrollment Center offices open as normal, with in-person, email, and phone services |
Enrollment Key Dates for 25-26 Link to this section
The 25-26 school year enrollment process will be simpler! There is only one deadline: Main Round Applications are due January 31, 2025.
All families who do not get their first choice school will be automatically added to the wait lists of up to 5 schools on their application. Families applying for the first time after January 31 will be added to wait lists for schools of their choice and assigned to a school with space. Find more details here.
| DATE | DESCRIPTION |
| October 18, 2024 | Online application opens and paper applications are available |
| October 19, 2024 | Enrollment Fair - All Schools. Live workshops and launch of information on enrollment online. Official start of the enrollment cycle for School Year 2025-26 |
| December 13, 2024 | Deadline to apply for Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and Lowell High School |
| December 23, 2024 - January 3, 2025 | SFUSD Winter Break (schools closed) |
| December 23, 2024 - January 3, 2025 | Enrollment Center closed to in-person visits 12/23 through 12/31; available by phone and email. Dec. 25, 2024: closed for holiday Jan. 1, 2025: closed for holiday Jan 2-3, 2025: open for in-person service as well as phone and email. |
| January 31, 2025 | Main Round Deadline. Last day to submit, revise or cancel TK -12 applications. Interdistrict transfer applications due. Interdistrict permits may be submitted until 2/17/25. |
| February 1, 2025 | Wait List Application Opens Families applying for the first time after this date can join the end of the Wait List for schools they are interested in. These families will need to do Open Enrollment between April and August to get a school assignment. Families who already applied for the Main Round, but who did not get their top choice, will be automatically added to the Wait Lists of schools above their assigned school on their list, and do not need to resubmit the Wait List application unless they want to change the ranking of schools on their Wait List. |
| Week of March 17, 2025 | Main Round assignment letters mailed to families who applied by 1/31. Inter-district transfer applicants are assigned and notified. Waitlist status is live on ParentVue. |
| March 27, 2025 | Last day to accept or decline the Main Round assignment. Last day to submit a Family and/or Medical Hardship Appeal. |
| March 28 - April 4, 2025 | Spring Break (schools closed) |
| April 21, 2025 | First Wait List assignments sent this week, then on rolling basis as space is available. Appeals decisions sent to families and included in waitlist. Open Enrollment for 2025-26 begins. |
| May 12, 2025 | Lowell 10th-12th grade transfer window opens |
| June 4, 2025 | Last day of school |
| June 20, 2025 | Lowell Transfer Application Deadline for 10th-12th grade |
| August 6, 2025 | Waitlist application deadline |
| August 30, 2025 | End of waitlist offers End of Open Enrollment transfers |
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This page was last updated on December 20, 2024