ENROLLMENT OF STUDENTS BEYOND COMPULSORY EDUCATION AGE
No student who has reached the age of eighteen (18) shall be permitted to enroll in the Shelby County Schools after the first twenty (20) day attendance period of each semester. An exception will be made if the student can show proof of satisfactory attendance in another school system during the first twenty (20) day period or if a doctor's certificate states that illness has prevented enrollment during the first twenty (20) day period.
During the first twenty (20) days of each semester, those students who fall in the following categories will be admitted only by special permission of the principal of the school where they seek admission:
twenty (20) years of age or older;
nineteen (19) years old and in the eleventh (11) grade or lower;
eighteen (18) years old and in the tenth (10) grade or lower; or