Staying in OUSD if move out of Oakland
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
Parent Replies
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.