Enrollment Key Dates

Enrollment Key Dates for 25-26 Link to this section

DATEDESCRIPTION
August 29, 2025Last day of waitlist offers for 25-26.
September 2, 2025Spring Transfer window opens.
November 14, 2025

Last day to submit, revise, or cancel a SY25-26 Spring Transfer Request.

Week of December 15, 2025

SY25-26 Spring Transfer assignment letters mailed to families who applied by 11/14 

Note: transfer results are final (no option to accept/decline).

December 22, 2025 - January 2, 2026

Enrollment Center open for winter Open Enrollment for families who want to change schools - until January 9, 2026

Dec. 25, 2024: closed for holiday

Jan. 1, 2025: closed for holiday

Enrollment Key Dates for 26-27 Link to this section

There is only one deadline: Main Round Applications are due January 30, 2026. 

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 30 will be added to wait lists for schools of their choice and assigned to a school with space. Find more details at sfusd.edu/waitlist.

DATEDESCRIPTION
October 1, 2025School tours available at sfusd.edu/tours
October 17, 2025Online application opens and paper applications are available
October 18, 2026Enrollment Fair - All Schools. Live workshops and launch of information on enrollment online. Official start of the enrollment cycle for School Year 2026-27.
December 12, 2025Deadline to apply for Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and Lowell High School
January 30, 2026

Main Round Deadline. Last day to submit, revise or cancel TK -12 applications.

Interdistrict transfer applications due. Interdistrict permits may be submitted until 4/17/26.

January 31, 2026

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 16, 2026

Main Round assignment letters mailed to families who applied by 1/30.

Inter-district transfer applicants are assigned and notified.

Waitlist  status is live on ParentVue.

March 26, 2026

Last day to accept or decline the Main Round assignment.

Last day to submit a Family and/or Medical Hardship Appeal.

March 27 - April 3, 2026

Spring Break. Enrollment Center open.

April 20, 2026

First Wait List assignments sent this week, then on rolling basis as space is available.

Appeals decisions sent to families and included in waitlist.

April 27, 2026Open Enrollment for 2026-27 begins.
May 11, 2026

Lowell 10th-12th grade transfer window opens

June 26, 2026Lowell Transfer Application Deadline for 10th-12th grade
August 28, 2026

End of waitlist offers

End of Open Enrollment transfers

Enrollment Calendar

SFUSD Enrollment Key Dates

This page was last updated on May 13, 2025