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CFB ISD reports 5,876 registered students, nearly 1,930 transfer requests; 60-day response timeline explained
Summary
Enrollment staff told trustees the district had registered 5,876 students for next year and received roughly 1,930 transfer requests since transfers opened; applications will be processed within a 60-day window, with acceptance letters issued from the district enrollment system and approvals subject to attendance, behavior and capacity criteria.
Miss LaCroix, student services staff, briefed trustees on enrollment and transfer activity, saying 5,876 students had registered for next school year and that about 1,930 transfer requests had been submitted since the transfer window opened.
Miss LaCroix described the transfer-review process: applications are routed into the district system, staff verify address and grade-level eligibility, download grades, attendance and behavior records, and send cases involving special services to Special Education for review. ‘‘We do ask for a 60 day time period. Of course, this is worst case scenario. We're working diligently to process these 1,900 plus applications that we've received so far,’’ she said.
Approval outcomes include unconditional approval, probationary approval (for concerns such as attendance or marginal conduct), or denial for serious discipline or chronic absenteeism. Miss LaCroix said acceptance notifications are sent from the district email system (CFB Enrolled) and that campuses and principals also receive the acceptance letters and related documents in the district document-management system.
On capacity, Miss LaCroix said the district considers grade-level and campus capacity and will generally stop transfers once a campus reaches about 85% projected capacity, though she said exceptions could be coordinated with Human Resources if extra sections and teachers are available. Trustees asked for a clearer cross-department process so that popular campuses with available classroom space could be evaluated promptly for additional sections.
Ending: Staff said they will continue pop-up registration events, coordinate with HR and campus leaders to track classroom sections, and provide a comparative enrollment update later (a trustee asked staff to report how current registrations compare to last year at the same point).
