Student Assignment - Cupertino Union School District (2024)

**Registration will closed on August 9, 2024 at 1:30 pm and will resume on August 15, 2024 at 8:00 am. There will be limited public access to the Student Assignment Office during this time as they work with the schools prior to the first day of school.**

2024-2025 New Transitional Kindergarten through 8th Grade Student Priority Registration

Please note: Families must be residing in CUSD in order to register. CUSD does not conduct any pre-registrations.

Kindergarten is available for children whose birthdays are between September 2, 2018, and September 1, 2019.

TK is available for children whose birthdays are between September 2, 2019, and June 2, 2020.

TK is part of a two-year Kindergarten program.

STEP 1:Gather all required documents

One (1) document is required from List A, B and C:

LIST A

• Homeowner:
  • Current Original Property Tax Bill – with parent/guardian’s name, mailing address and property address. One may obtain a duplicate of their original property tax bill at theDepartment of Tax and Collections, 110 W. Tasman Drive,San Jose, 95134-1700 or by emailing scctax@fin.sccgov.org
  • Final Buyer Statement (if purchased within last six [6] months) – with parent/guardian’s name and property address
  • CUSDwill notaccept a Grant Deed as proof of residence.
  • CUSDwill notaccept a Property Assessment mailed by the Santa Clara County Assessors Office.
• Renter/Lessee:
  • Printed fully executed lease agreement – includes signatures from both parent/guardian and manager/landlord and Manager/Landlord’s contact information
• Affidavit of residence (family living with another resident):
  • An Affidavit of Parent Residence form must be signed by parent and the primary resident. The form can be obtained by submitting anInquiry Request- a staff member will reach out to you with instructions.
  • Primary resident must provide Property Tax Bill or fully executed lease agreement, most recent PG&E billand photo identification
  • Parent must provide two additional forms of identification with current address on it (most recent bank statement, car insurance or registration, or paycheck stub)

LIST B*

• Most recent PG&E bill (received within the last 30 days)

LIST C*

• Car Registration

• Car Insurance

• Bank Statement

• Paycheck stub

*If you have just moved into your residence and items from List B and C are not yet available, staff will give your family a 30 day registration conditional to turn those items in at a later date.

• Parent Photo ID- either a state issued driver's license or passport is accepted
• Child'sbirth certificate or passport
• Child's most up-to-date immunization records - Students entering grades 7 or 8 must have one (1) dose of Tdap (or DTP/DTaP) on or after the 7^thbirthday
• Child's TB Risk Assessment form or negative test results -CLICK HERE for the TB Risk Assessment form.

STEP 2:Submit a registration request -CLICK HEREfor the form

• Due to the increased volume of registration, a response may take 5-10 business days. Thank you in advance for your patience!

STEP 3:Document Verification / Registration Completion

• Student Assignment staff will send instructions on how to submit registration requirements and how to complete the online registration.

CLICK HEREfor school listings and websites.

Open Enrollment Waitlist Informaton

CLICK HERE for access to the waitlist. (waitlist.cusdk8.org)

Parents checking living waitlist numbers will need to know their child’s six-digit perm identification number as well as the child’s six-digit birthday (mmddyy).

If your child is on a waitlist, please know that if a space becomes available for your child, a CUSD staff member will reach out to you by InformedK12 or email.

• Once a family accepts an alternative school placement for their child, the child is removed from all other waitlists and is removed from their current school of attendance.

• If a family accepts a neighborhood attendance area school placement for their child, the child will remain on any alternative school living waitlist the student is on.

If a family declines an offer for their child, their child is removed from that waitlist, but not other waitlists.

CUSD Open Enrollment (OE) Waitlist FAQ’s

I applied through an Open Enrollment window, but my child is not on the waitlist. Why not?

There are a variety of reasons your child may not be on the waitlist:

• No tour/parent information meeting (alt school/program only) was attended. If you believe this was an error, please contact the alternative school/program office.

• A different attendance area school or alternative school/program was not selected when the OE form was submitted (blank submission)

• The attendance area school selected was the home attendance area school, and the submission was removed (this is already your child’s assigned school)

• Incorrect grade level was entered, or the school chosen does not offer the grade level selected (for example, Faria, as well as Murdock-Portal, do not have 6th-grade classes)

• Your child was not re-registered for the 2024-2025 school year, and their perm ID # was not considered active for the Open Enrollment lottery

I have a lower waitlist number but have not received an offer. Why not?

All open spaces in Kindergarten are not initially offered for a variety of reasons:

• If a student has an IEP, the IEP must be reviewed and/or the team must meet prior to the offer. The student’s space is not offered to another student while this process is taking place.

• Some spaces are held for potential retention for the current 2023-2024 students.

Why is my child’s waitlist number not moving?

• Depending on the time of year, there may be few offers available. Our first priority is to place students in their attendance area schools. During summer, we have a lot of families moving into the district which may result in less open enrollment offers while we process all the students’ registrations to their attendance area schools.

Why is my child’s waitlist number getting higher?

• While families continue to apply and/or accept offers into schools, priorities may be added to student’s waitlist numbers making other student’s numbers go higher instead of lower.

When will I get an offer?

• The waitlist is monitored daily, and if/when an offer can be made, a CUSD staff member will email you. Offers can happen during the summer or after school starts through March 2025. Schools need to have adequate space to consider offers.

What does adequate space mean?

• One opening from a student leaving does not mean that an offer will be sent to the first student on an Open Enrollment waitlist. No student currently residing within a school's attendance area shall be displaced by another student transferring from outside the attendance area. (Education Code 35160.5)

If you have any further questions, please CLICK HERE and submit an Open Enrollment Waitlist Inquiry form. Student Assignment will not be answering questions via phone calls. Due to the increased volume of inquiries coming in at this time, please allow up to five business days to receive a response. We thank you in advance for your patience.