Open Transfer and Choice Schools & Programs Information for Eligible Employees

How do I know if I’m an eligible Bellevue School District employee?

Eligible Bellevue School District employees are defined as:

• classified employees who work 16 hours per week or more for a minimum of 180 days
• certificated employees who work 0.4 FTE or greater

Nonresident students of eligible BSD employees are considered as resident students for Open Transfer and Choice School/Program applications. Please indicate if you are an eligible BSD employee when submitting your applications. Student Placement will verify employment status with Human Resources.

Eligible Employee Status: To qualify your student for employee status, you must be an eligible employee for your student to be accepted for enrollment and be employed by the District when your student’s enrollment begins. Once enrolled with eligible employee status your student may continue in the feeder pattern to that school, even in the event that you are no longer employed by the District. Employee status will be revoked if your student does not remain in good standing or withdraws or is withdrawn from the District.

Open Transfer

Eligible employees (resident and nonresident) with students new to BSD will need to go through the online Open Transfer process, unless you are BSD residents planning to enroll at your attendance area school. You must be an eligible District employee for your student to be accepted and when they begin attending. Once enrolled your student(s) may continue in the feeder pattern to the accepted school, even in the event you are no longer employed by the District.

Eligible Employees Who Work at a School must use the Open Transfer process

• Your student is guaranteed to enroll at the school or in the feeder pattern where you are employed, this applies to both resident and nonresident eligible employees. You must be an eligible employee at the school for your student to be accepted and when they begin attending. Once enrolled your student(s) may continue in the feeder pattern to that school, even in the event you are no longer employed by the District.
• If your student is not currently enrolled at a Bellevue School District school you need to submit an Open Transfer application for the school you want, even if you are requesting the school where you work (unless as a resident you want your student to enroll in your assigned attendance area school).

Employees who do not work at a school must use the Open Transfer process

•  Your student is guaranteed a space at a school in the District. Student Placement will work with you to find a spot if the school you request is not available. Please submit one Open Transfer online application for the one school you are interested in.

Employees who want to request a different school for their current student must use the Open Transfer process

Eligible employees (resident and nonresident) who have a student currently enrolled in the District and want to request enrollment at a different BSD school will need to go through the online Open Transfer process (unless as a resident you want your student to enroll in your assigned attendance area school).

Choice Schools/Program

Employees students may apply to all applicable Choice Schools/Programs.

Students of all eligible employees (resident and nonresident) interested in Choice Schools/Programs will need to apply through the online Choice Schools/Program Application process. Even if you are employed at the school you are applying for. Your student(s) will be on an equal basis with resident applicants.

All siblings MUST apply, unless an application is received the sibling will not even be considered for enrollment for the upcoming school year.

Please submit a Choice Schools/Program online application for each applicable Choice Schools/Program you are interested in.

The Choice School application period is for initial entry to Choice Schools/Programs for the following grades:

• incoming kindergarten students applying to Jing Mei, Puesta del Sol & Spanish DL Program
• incoming 6^th grade students applying to International and Big Picture School
• incoming kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade students applying to the Arabic Language program
• incoming kindergarten through 12^th grade students applying to Bellevue Digital Discovery School

Open Transfer or Choice Schools/Program Approval

After your student has been admitted to a school or program, you are required to submit the appropriate enrollment paperwork and residency documents or nonresident paperwork.

Resident employees are required to establish residency for their student

• Resident employees will be required to submit the following residency documents as requested
  • New students will be required to submit a recent electricity bill and 1 piece of Government Mail to establish residency

For additional information about establishing residency click here to review the Residency Checklist.

Nonresident employees are required to submit nonresident paperwork for their student each year

• Nonresident employees will be required to submit nonresident paperwork as requested by Student Placement.
  • New students and students enrolling in a new school will need to submit both:
    • a BSD Interdistrict Transfer application to studentplacement@bsd405.org and
    • a Choice Transfer Request to their resident school district.
  • Students continuing at the same school are required to submit a Choice Transfer Request to their resident school district each year.

Thank you in advance for your quick turnaround submitting the nonresident paperwork when requested!