Transferring into the Oakland School District

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  • Staying in OUSD if move out of Oakland

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    Aug 31, 2017

    Hello,

    My daughter just started K at a great OUSD school. We'd like to keep her there and start her brother in Fall 2019.  However, we are house hunting.  Ideally we will stay in Oakland but if we end up moving to Berkeley, could she stay at her school? Is there any hope of her brother getting in?

    Thanks!

    Aug 31, 2017

    I know older kids (4th or 5th grade) whose families moved out of Oakland and they stayed at their OUSD elementary school. It was not official through OUSD, however. The elementary school turned a blind eye because the families had been part of the school community for years and why force them to change schools when they only had a year or two left anyway?  But if I were you, since your kids are so young, I would start them fresh in their new district wherever that might be. To start a kid in kindy at an OUSD school when they live somewhere else would much more problematic and would require some sort of official interdistrict transfer. Sounds unpleasant. And if your OUSD elementary is oversubscribed for kindy, then they wouldn't make space for him anyway.

    Sep 6, 2017

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Can we stay in OUSD if we move to another district?

Oct 2013

Does anyone have experience transferring INTO Oakland Unified? If my daughter completes one year and we move to Contra Costa County (a possibility for various reasons), I don't want to have to uproot her from her school, so I'd like to do an interdistrict transfer to keep her in her Oakland school. Do you know if they will consider the circumstances, and allow her to stay? thanks! Wants to Stay

We recently moved to San Leandro after a year in OUSD, and wanted to keep our daughter in her elementary school (Sequoia). I work in Oakland, so this was one of the grounds that allowed us to apply for the interdistrict transfer. But when I spoke to an OUSD staff person, basically she said that if your child is already established in a school, is having no attendance or discipline issues, and the school & grade are not over-enrolled, then it's OUSD's policy to allow a child to stay for continuity, etc. The process was to get the paperwork from the district we were wanting to transfer out of, submit it to them, then submit the copies to OUSD. Good luck! Happy in OUSD