The Pupil Services and Research and Planning Departments will meet annually to determine schools that are open to transfers, based on space available. Transfers will be granted and notices sent by June 1 of each year. The following procedures will be followed:
Transfer application deadlines for high school students will be March 1 and April 1 for elementary/middle school students.
Parents will submit Transfer Application Request by appropriate deadline to Pupil Services.
Pupil Services staff will determine which transfers will be granted and which will be denied according to established transfer guidelines.
Letters will be sent to the parents notifying them of the original decision.
Parents may appeal denied transfers to the Transfer Review Committee by submitting a written request within ten (10) calendar days of their notification for the denial to be reviewed by the Transfer Review Committee.
The Transfer Review Committee will a make decision and parents will be provided written notification of this decision.
Parents may appeal a denial by the Transfer Review Committee to the Superintendent by submitting a written request within ten (10) calendar days for the denial to be reviewed by the Superintendent.
The Superintendent will review the denial by the Transfer Review Committee and parents will be provided written notification of this decision.
Shelby County Schools
Elementary and Middle School Transfer Guidelines
N O T E: In cases where transfers are requested, the following criteria will be used in determining the approval/non-approval of transfer requests.
Children of Shelby County Schools' employees may receive transfers for their children to the school where they work or the school(s) in the normal progression of the parent's assigned work location.
Students currently attending the school on a previously granted transfer until the exit grade at the school, if space is available in the grade requested.
Students currently attending the school on a previously granted one-year transfer and based on the number of years the student has been enrolled in the school, if space is available in the grade requested.
Siblings of students currently attending the school in 2001-2002 on transfer, if space is available in the grade requested.
Students whose school assignment has been changed due to rezoning will be considered for transfers to the last school attended where space is available based on the following criteria:
Students currently attending the school the prior year and will enter the exit grade, if space is available in the grade requested.
Students currently attending the school on a previously granted transfer until the exit grade at the school, if space is available in the grade requested.
Students currently attending the school on a previously granted one year transfer and based on the number of years the student has been enrolled in the school or new transfer requests, if space is available in the grade requested.
Siblings of students currently attending the school on transfer, if space is available in the grade requested.
In all cases where transfer requests are approved, parents are responsible for providing all transportation.
Shelby County Schools
High School Transfer Guidelines
Criteria for Transfers into High Schools with Limited Transfers Where Space is Available:
Students with siblings already in the school may request a transfer to the same school, if space is available.
Students may request a transfer based on the normal progression. (Normal progression is the student who has been in the middle school where the majority of the students feed into the requested high school.)
Children of Shelby County Schools' employees may receive transfers for their children to the school where they work or the school(s) in the normal progression of the parent's assigned work location.
High school students may request a transfer based on a course not offered at their assigned school, if space is available.
Seniors may request to remain at the school they have been attending, even if their parents move out of the district.
Ninth through eleventh grade students may request a transfer to remain in the school when their parent/legal guardian moves into another Shelby County Schools district, if space is available.
Students currently attending a school on a transfer granted until the exit grade may request to remain in the school, if space is available.
In all cases where transfer requests are approved, parents are responsible for providing all transportation.
NOTE: Parents or legal guardians must request the transfer.