Elementary Open Enrollment

Important Dates & Information

School Year: July 15, 2026-May 20, 2027
Now accepting Open Enrollment Applications for the 2026-27 school year for K-12 students.
- Open Enrollment is designed to allow your student to attend a school outside your attendance boundary school.
- If you are out of boundary for Chandler Unified School District (CUSD), or the school you desire to enroll in, start with an open enrollment application.
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IMPORTANT NOTES

Andersen Junior and Basha AMS 6th Students

Required Academic Profile Documents

The Process

Completed Applications

All completed applications will be assigned to a Priority Group from the Office of Elementary Education and placed on the school's initial wait list for review.
The school administration will verify their class ratios of capacity and this will determine how many Open Enrollment Applications will be approved for each grade level.
The school office will access their online Open Enrollment Report(s) to review their applications. The applications are reviewed by the Priority Group and by the date and time for each grade level. If the student currently does not attend a CUSD school, the student's *academic profile from (attendance, discipline and grades) from the previous school year and current school year must be upload to the CUSD File Upload Center. If any of the documents are not received, your application cannot be processed. Your email confirmation will have the link to upload the documents.
- For entering kindergarten students, documents are not required if the application is received November 10, 2025-September 2026.

Category 1 and Category 2 are reviewed separately, and one does not impact the other.

Approved Applications

If your School Choice is approved, you will receive an email from the Office of Elementary Education with your next steps for registration/transfer.
The parent/legal guardian must confirm the acceptance of the approved Open Enrollment by completing the registration/transfer within five (5) school days from the approval email date and provide proof of their Arizona address, or the seat will be offered to the next applicant.
The approved School Choice office will contact you by phone and/or email regarding your student's registration/transfer.

Once accepted, continuing Open Enrollment is subject to review each year without reapplication if continuing at the enrolled site.

It is expected that the student on an Open Enrollment will remain at the approved school for the entire year. Revoking an Open Enrollment requires district approval.

If you have questions after your Open Enrollment Application is approved, please contact the approved School Choice.

Capacity Wait List Applications

If capacity does not exist, no seat available, no need to reapply. Your application will be placed on a Capacity Wait List. If a seat becomes available during the applying school year, you will receive a new email with your next steps for registration/transfer, followed by an email and/or phone call from the approved school.

If you decide to submit a new Open Enrollment Application to a different School Choice, your Open Enrollment Application that was denied for capacity will no longer be considered.

Category 1 and Category 2 are reviewed separately, and one does not impact the other.

Cancelling Applications or Application Changes

If you change your mind about your completed application, please contact the School Choice and ask them to cancel your application.
If you made an error on the application (wrong birth date, a name spelled incorrectly, wrong name, wrong gender, address entered incorrectly), forward your email confirmation to tobin.stephanie@cusd80.com with the corrected information. We cannot make changes to your Category 1 and/or Category 2 School Choice selections.

2026-27 Elementary Open Enrollment Application Link

click here for the 2026-27 elementary open enrollment (boundary exemption) application

The purpose of Elementary Open Enrollment is to:

Request an elementary school attendance boundary transfer for your kindergartner through 6th grade child.
Request Early Entrance into Kindergarten (child born 9/1/2021-12/31/2021).
Request a transfer to Elite Performance Academy in grades 3rd-8th grade located on the CTA Humphrey Campus.
Request continued enrollment at a Chandler Unified school due to a recent move within the State of Arizona.
Apply for Gifted Education.

If your child is currently on an Open Enrollment, please DO NOT submit another application unless you are requesting a new school, or you have recently moved from an Arizona school boundary, and you're requesting to continue enrollment at the current CUSD school.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is open enrollment the same as registration?

When is an Open Enrollment (Boundary Exemption) Application required?

The parent/legal guardian and student must be an Arizona Resident (physically living in Arizona) to apply for Open Enrollment/Boundary Exemption.

When a Chandler Unified student is NOT on an Open Enrollment/Boundary Exemption and is wishing to attend a DIFFERENT school within the Chandler Unified School District boundaries.
When a student lives in another Arizona school district boundary other than Chandler Unified School District and wishes to attend a school in the Chandler Unified School District boundary.
When a student is attending a Chandler Unified school and they move out of the attendance school boundaries of the current school during the school year, and they want to continue at the same school.
When a student is applying for a Dual Language Immersion, Early Entrance into Kindergarten, Elite Performance Academy or Gifted Services.

What do I need to know prior?

An application is needed for EACH student.
When completing the application, you will have the option of selecting one (1) school in Category 1 (Classic curriculum, Chandler Traditional Academy curriculum, Dual Language curriculum) and/or Category 2 (Gifted curriculum).
Submitting multiple applications for one child will result in the application being denied or admission being revoked.
- Example: You submitted an application and you have not heard the status of the application, you then submit another application. Both applications may be cancelled.
- If you share custody with the absent parent, please decide who will complete the application.
Providing false information on the application will result in the application being denied or admission being revoked.
An email confirmation will be sent once the application has been submitted. If you do not receive your email confirmation after 20 minutes, please check your junk mail or spam folder for the email confirmation. If you still haven't received the email confirmation, send an email to Elementary Education to verify your application was received.

Please allow yourself enough time to complete the application in one session. You will not be able to save it and come back later to complete it.

Current CUSD Students

Entering Kindergarten-6th and 7th-8th grade Elite Performance Academy

The school administrator from your requested School Choice will review your 2026-27 Open Enrollment Application along with reviewing your student's academic profile (attendance, discipline, and grades) from the previous school year (2024-25) and the current school year (2025-26) within Infinite Campus.

Non-Enrolled Students

For entering Kindergarten- 6th grade and 7th-8th for the Elite Performance Academy

The academic profile (attendance, discipline and grades) for students currently not enrolled in a Chandler Unified school must be provide for your requested School Choice administrator to review along with your 2026-27 Open Enrollment Application. After submitting your application, the following documents from the previous school year (2024-25) and the current school year (2025-26) must be uploaded to the CUSD File Upload Center:

attendance history/report (previous school year 2024-25 and current school year 2025-26)
discipline report (previous school year 2024-25 and current school year 2025-26)
- (If your student does not have a discipline report, please request from the school office on letterhead signed by an administrator that your student does not have a discipline report.)
grade report/report card/progress report (previous school year 2024-25 and current school year 2025-26)

If applicable:

Full Individualized Education Plan (IEP) with evaluation report
Gifted Test Scores
- Looking for information on Gifted Testing? Click here for more information.

PDF documents are preferred.

Please assist us with converting your photo images to PDF before uploading them to the CUSD File Upload Center. Search for a free scanner in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store to turn your phone into a mobile scanner and create a PDF of your images. i.e. CamScanner - PDF Scanner App, Adobe Scan, etc. The District does not take responsibility for any apps that you may download.

To ensure the school administration can locate your student's documents, each document must be named in the following format:

Student First Name Student Last Name Document Name School Year

Examples:

Jane Doe Report Card 2024-25

Jane Doe In Progress Grades 2025-26

Jane Doe Attendance History 2024-25

Jane Doe Attendance Report 2025-26

If applicable:

Jane Doe Current Full IEP

After submitting your 2026-27 Open Enrollment Application, you will receive two (2) emails with instructions on how to upload the documents:

1. 2026-27 CUSD Elementary Open Enrollment Application Confirmation

2. 2026-27 CUSD Elementary Open Enrollment Document Upload Information

If any of the above documents are not received, your application cannot be processed.

What are the Priority Groups?

Priority Group 1: Resident transfer students who currently attend the school and their siblings

Example #1: John lives in the Conley Elementary attendance boundary and his son attended Andersen Elementary last school year and his son will return to Andersen Elementary next school year.
Example #2: Grant lives in the Santan Elementary attendance boundary and his daughter attended Basha Elementary last school year, and she will be returning. Grant will submit an Open Enrollment/Boundary Exemption Application for his kindergarten son to attend Basha Elementary.

Priority Group 2: Children of employees and previously accepted and enrolled non-resident students

Example #1: Simon works at Perry High and he will submit two Open Enrollment/Boundary Exemption Applications for his children to attend CTA Freedom.
Example #2: Randy lives in the Gilbert Elementary School District boundaries and his children attended Santan Elementary last school year. They are returning to Santan for the current school year.

Priority Group 3: Resident transfer students

Example: Karen lives in the Tarwater Elementary attendance boundary and she will submit an Open Enrollment/Boundary Exemption Application for her son to attend Hancock Elementary.

Priority Group 4: Previously accepted and enrolled non-resident students' siblings

Example: Tim lives in the Tempe Elementary School boundaries and his 1st grade daughter attends Andersen Elementary (Priority Group 2). He will submit an Open Enrollment/Boundary Exemption Application for his kindergarten son to attend Andersen Elementary.

Priority Group 5: Non-resident students

Example: Gary lives in Maricopa and will submit an Open Enrollment Application for his daughter to attend Jacobson Elementary.

Do I need to submit an Open Enrollment (Boundary Exemption) Application each year?

When completing the Elementary Open Enrollment Application, you will have the option of selecting one (1) school from a Category 1 School Choice and/or one (1) school from a Category 2 School Choice. the listing of school choices are below.

Category 1 School Options 26-27

When filling out the 2026-27 Open Enrollment Application, you will have the option of selecting one (1) school from:

Classic Schools

Andersen Elementary
Auxier Elementary
Basha Elementary
Bologna Elementary
Carlson Elementary
Conley Elementary
Elite Performance Academy
Frye Elementary
Fulton Elementary
Galveston Elementary
Haley Elementary
Hancock Elementary
Hartford Sylvia Encinas Elementary

Hull Elementary
Jacobson Elementary
Navarrete Elementary
Patterson Elementary
Rice Elementary
Riggs Elementary
Ryan Elementary
San Marcos Elementary
Sanborn Elementary
Santan Elementary
Shumway Leadership Academy
Tarwater Elementary

Category 2 School Options 26-27

Gifted curriculum, includes; consultative services, satellite classrooms and full campus

When filling out the 2026-27 Open Enrollment Application, you will have the option of selecting one (1) school from:

Full Gifted School
Satellite Gifted School

Full Gifted School

Satellite Gifted School