Open Enrollment
The 2025-2026 open enrollment application period is February 3rd – 4:00 pm on April 30, 2025.
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.
If you are looking to Open Enroll a 4K/5K student before the school year has started, please see the 4K/5K Pre-Registration page on the Wisconsin Heights Elementary page. Please note we are NOT able to accept any open enrollment applications for 4K students living outside district boundaries for the 2025-2026 school year.
The 2025-26 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 2025-26 school year runs from midnight on February 3, 2025 and ends at 4:00pm on April 30, 2025.
The English version is available on DPI's main Open Enrollment webpage at DPI - Open Enrollment.
The Spanish and Hmong versions are available on DPI's Forms webpage, located at DPI - Spanish / Hmong or at Spanish Form for the Spanish version and Hmong Form 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.
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.