New and renewal transfer applications to and from schools outside the Chula Vista Elementary School District for the following year may be submitted to the Student Placement Office after May 1. Applications are available from the district in which you live. Priority Criteria For Student Placement Schools of Choice applications are processed according to the date they were filed and the criteria involved. Students who live in a neighborhood school's attendance area receive priority to attend their neighborhood school. Parents will be informed of their options and provided an application for transfer upon request.
Magnet programs use consistently-applied entrance requirements.
Schools of Choice handbooks are available at schools. Assignments are made to requested schools on a projected space-available basis before the start of the school year, and until the next to last space in each class is reached after school has begun. Placement may be activated until the end of the first semester. New and renewal interdistrict transfer requests shall be initiated at the district office of the school district in which you live. Transfer requests received after the May 1 deadline for zone transfers can be held at the district office ten days after the start of the school of choice.