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Centennial board approves student transfer limits for 2025-26 school year
Summary
The Centennial School Board voted Feb. 12 to adopt limits on interdistrict and intradistrict student transfers for the 2025-26 school year, approving the administration's recommendation on slots and timelines. The policy includes a lottery if applications exceed available spaces and preserves hardship and immersion exceptions.
The Centennial School Board approved the district's recommended student transfer limits for the 2025-26 school year at its Feb. 12 meeting.
Dr. Katsuda, the district administrator who oversees enrollment processes, told the board the recommendation is to allow up to 195 nonresident students to transfer into Centennial for 2025-26 and to set the number of out-of-district releases at 30. She said the district will continue to monitor enrollment and school capacity and that, if applications exceed available slots, the district will use a lottery after the August deadline.
The recommendation detailed distinctions between intra- and interdistrict transfers, described timelines for late or midyear moves, and reiterated that approved transfers are contingent on adherence to school behavioral and attendance standards. Dr. Katsuda also explained automatic approvals for a small number of cases (siblings and certain continuing eleventh-grade students) and noted 24 language-immersion transfers this year that were granted because Centennial does not offer those immersion programs.
Board members asked about hardship appeals, which Dr. Katsuda said are reviewed individually under Oregon statute and generally include documented housing instability, medical conditions, student safety (including documented harassment or bullying), and domestic violence. She clarified that McKinney-Vento rights are separate but related to housing-instability determinations.
Board action came after the administration's report and discussion. A motion to approve the student transfer limits as presented was made, seconded and approved by voice vote; the chair announced, "the ayes have it." The board did not record a numerical roll-call tally in the public minutes.
What the action means: families seeking interdistrict transfers should follow the district's published timelines; nonresident admits will be capped by the approved numbers and, where demand exceeds supply, allocation will be by lottery. Hardship appeals remain available for qualifying circumstances and are decided on a case-by-case basis.
Implementation details and next steps: the administration will publish the transfer application timeline, run the lottery if necessary after the August deadline, and continue monthly monitoring of school-level capacity. Parents denied a transfer may submit a hardship appeal under the definitions presented to the board.
