Enrollment Key Dates

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The 2025-26 school year enrollment process will be simpler! There is only one deadline: Main Round Applications are due January 31, 2025. 

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 31 will be added to wait lists for schools of their choice and assigned to a school with space. Find more details here.

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October 18, 2024Online application opens and paper applications are available
October 19, 2024Enrollment Fair - All Schools. Live workshops and launch of information on enrollment online. Official start of the enrollment cycle for School Year 2025-26
December 13, 2024Deadline to apply for Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and Lowell High School
December 23, 2024 - January 3, 2025

SFUSD Winter Break (schools closed)

December 23, 2024 - January 3, 2025

Enrollment Center closed to in-person visits 12/23 through 12/31; available by phone and email.

Dec. 25, 2024: closed for holiday

Jan. 1, 2025: closed for holiday

Jan 2-3, 2025: open for in-person service as well as phone and email.

January 31, 2025

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

Interdistrict transfer applications due. Interdistrict permits may be submitted until 2/18/25.

February 1, 2025

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 17, 2025

Main Round assignment letters mailed to families who applied by 1/31.

Inter-district transfer applicants are assigned and notified.

Waitlist  status is live on ParentVue.

March 27, 2025

Last day to accept or decline the Main Round assignment.

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

March 28 - April 4, 2025

Spring Break (schools closed)

April 21, 2025

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

Appeals decisions sent to families and included in waitlist.

Open Enrollment for 2025-26 begins.

May 12, 2025

Lowell 10th-12th grade transfer window opens

June 4, 2025Last day of school
June 20, 2025Lowell Transfer Application Deadline for 10th-12th grade
August 6, 2025Waitlist application deadline
August 29, 2025

End of waitlist offers

End of Open Enrollment transfers

Enrollment Calendar

SFUSD Enrollment Key Dates

This page was last updated on January 27, 2025