Open Enrollment
The 2024-2025 open enrollment application period is February 5 – April 30, 2024
What is Open Enrollment?
The inter-district public school open enrollment program allows parents to apply for their children to attend public school in a school district other than the one in which they reside.
Who can apply?
Any Wisconsin resident in 4K to grade 12 may apply to attend a nonresident school district under the open enrollment program. However, a child may transfer to a nonresident school district for early childhood education or 4K only if the child’s resident school district offers the same type of program and only if the child is eligible for that program in the resident school district.
The 2024-25 Open Enrollment Brochure in English, Spanish, and Hmong for the upcoming regular application period are now available on the DPI open enrollment website. The open enrollment regular application period for the 2024-25 school year runs from midnight on February 5, 2024 and ends at 4:00pm on April 30, 2024.
The English version is available on DPI's main OE webpage at https://dpi.wi.gov/oe or at https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/open-enrollment/pdf/oe-brochure-2024-25.pdf.
The Spanish and Hmong versions are available on DPI's Forms webpage, located at https://dpi.wi.gov/open-enrollment/resources/forms or at https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/open-enrollment/pdf/oe-brochure-2024-25-spanish.pdf for the Spanish version and https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/open-enrollment/pdf/oe-brochure-2024-25-hmong.pdf for the Hmong version.
Part-time Open Enrollment
Beginning in the 2018-19 school year, a pupil enrolled in a public school in the high school grades may attend public school in a nonresident school district for the purpose of taking a course offered by the nonresident school district. A pupil may attend no more than 2 courses at any time in nonresident school districts. Wis. Stat. 118.52
The Part-time Open Enrollment application and informational brochure can be found on DPI’s new Part-time Open Enrollment webpage.
Additional information about the restoration of Part-time Open Enrollment can be found in the Act 59 Open Enrollment Changes List Serve sent on December 14, 2017.
If you have any questions, please contact our District Registrar, Nikki Klepper at 608-767-2586 or you may contact the DPI at 888-245-2732 or openenrollment@dpi.wi.gov.