By Tom Chorneau, SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources http://bit.ly/1cVterW
Friday, August 16, 2013 :: The state’s list of the 1,000 low-achieving schools subject to open enrollment was released earlier this month, absent for perhaps the first time the collective groan the announcement has prompted from districts in the past.
Adopted in 2009 as part of an effort to convince federal officials judging the Race to the Top competition of California’s commitment to changing the culture around failing schools, the Open Enrollment Act gave students attending one of the targeted sites the option of enrolling in a different school anywhere in the state with a higher performance record.
The original bill sparked significant controversy after the formula used to identify target schools also captured a large number of high performers. Although some steps have since been taken to limit the better schools’ exposure to the program, a quick review of this year’s list shows a reasonably large number with good test scores.
Indeed, the 2013 Open Enrollment list includes 84 schools that achieved the state’s target score of 800 or better on the Academic Performance Index. Another 226 scored 750 or better.
Recognizing the stigma attached to being included in the program, the California State Board of Education moved to rename the target list of schools simply Open Enrollment schools.
The board has also been sympathetic in granting districts some relief from the program through its waiver authority. As practiced, the SBE waiver allows districts with API scores of at least 800 to have their schools removed from the Open Enrollment Act’s list of low-performers.
While schools receiving relief are not subject to public labeling as “low-performing,” the waiver comes with the condition that the district honor any transfer request.
The law requires that no local educational agency have more than 10 percent of their schools on the list. There is also a ratio specified so that 68.7 percent (or 687 of the 1,000 on list) are elementary schools, 16.5 percent (or 165 of the 1,000 on the list) are middle schools, and 14.8 percent (or 148 of the 1,000 on the list) are high schools.
State law excludes juvenile court schools, county community schools, community day schools, and charter schools. (emphasis added)
Districts with schools included on the new 2013-14 list must notify parents of their option to transfer in time for submission of an application by Jan. 1, 2014 – although the school district of enrollment may waive this deadline.
Within 60 calendar days of receiving an application from a student seeking to transfer pursuant to the Open Enrollment Act, a school district of enrollment shall notify the applicant and the school district of residence in writing whether the application has been accepted or rejected.
Related links:
Full State Open Enrollment List
LAUSD Open Enrollment Schools as listed
District | School Name | School Type | 2012 Growth API |
| Los Angeles Unified | Central High | H | 427 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Communication and Technology at South Re | H | 506 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Youth Opportunities Unlimited | H | 510 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Social Justice: Global Issues Academy at | H | 527 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Performing Arts Community at South Regio | H | 527 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Social Justice: Fine and Performing Arts | H | 531 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Marlton | E | 536 |
| Los Angeles Unified | School of Communications, New Media and | H | 544 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Green Design at South Region High No. 2 | H | 558 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Humanitas Art School at Roosevelt High | H | 565 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Academy of Medical & Health Sciences at | H | 567 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Crenshaw Senior High | H | 569 |
| Los Angeles Unified | School of Law & Government at Roosevelt | H | 569 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Samuel Gompers Middle | M | 571 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Teacher Preparation Academy at Valley Re | H | 575 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Horace Mann Junior High | M | 575 |
| Los Angeles Unified | George Washington Preparatory High | H | 578 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Social Justice Leadership Academy at Est | H | 582 |
| Los Angeles Unified | CIVITAS School of Leadership | H | 584 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Public Service Community at South Region | H | 586 |
| Los Angeles Unified | John C. Fremont Senior High | H | 586 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Thomas Jefferson Senior High | H | 589 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Charles Drew Middle | M | 590 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Sun Valley High | H | 591 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Manual Arts Senior High | H | 593 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology | H | 594 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Los Angeles Teachers Preparatory Academy | H | 597 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Helen Bernstein High | H | 605 |
| Los Angeles Unified | School of Engineering and Technology | H | 607 |
| Los Angeles Unified | David Starr Jordan Senior High | H | 608 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy | M | 611 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Santee Education Complex | H | 612 |
| Los Angeles Unified | School of Math and Science | H | 614 |
| Los Angeles Unified | William Jefferson Clinton Middle | M | 618 |
| Los Angeles Unified | East Los Angeles Performing Arts Academy | H | 620 |
| Los Angeles Unified | East Valley Senior High | H | 621 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High | H | 624 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Edwin Markham Middle | M | 626 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Arts, Theatre, Entertainment (ArTES) at | H | 631 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Forty-Second Street Elementary | E | 631 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Bret Harte Preparatory Middle | M | 632 |
| Los Angeles Unified | West Adams Preparatory High | H | 632 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Gardena Senior High | H | 633 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Orchard Academies 2C | M | 633 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary | E | 633 |
| Los Angeles Unified | City of Angels | H | 635 |
| Los Angeles Unified | George Washington Carver Middle | M | 637 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Edward R. Roybal Learning Center | H | 642 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Engineering and Technology Academy at Es | H | 644 |
| Los Angeles Unified | John Muir Middle | M | 644 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Woodcrest Elementary | E | 645 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Academy of Scientific Exploration (ASE) | H | 645 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Belmont Senior High | H | 647 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Los Angeles Senior High | H | 647 |
| Los Angeles Unified | East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy at | H | 647 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Academy of Environmental & Social Policy | H | 648 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Los Angeles River at Sonia Sotomayor Lea | H | 648 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Woodrow Wilson Senior High | H | 648 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Robert Fulton College Preparatory | H | 649 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Miguel Contreras Learning Complex | H | 649 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Academic Leadership Community | H | 649 |
| Los Angeles Unified | La Salle Avenue Elementary | E | 651 |
| Los Angeles Unified | ARTLAB at Sonia Sotomayor Learning Acade | H | 652 |
| Los Angeles Unified | School of Arts and Culture at Central Re | M | 652 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Huntington Park Senior High | H | 653 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Los Angeles School of Global Studies | H | 653 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Ambassador School of Global Leadership | H | 653 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Orchard Academies 2B | M | 654 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Carlos Santana Arts Academy | E | 657 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Business and Technology at Central Regio | M | 657 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Johnnie Cochran, Jr., Middle | M | 662 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Sun Valley Middle | M | 664 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Twenty-Fourth Street Elementary | E | 667 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Tom Bradley Environmental Science and Hu | E | 667 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Judith Baca Arts Academy | E | 670 |
| Los Angeles Unified | One Hundred Twelfth Street Elementary | E | 671 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Fifty-Second Street Elementary | E | 671 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Manhattan Place Elementary | E | 671 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Hollenbeck Middle | M | 674 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Miramonte Elementary | E | 676 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Sal Castro Middle | M | 677 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Robert Louis Stevenson Middle | M | 679 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Vista Middle | E | 683 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Southeast Middle | M | 683 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Washington Irving Middle | M | 684 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Angeles Mesa Elementary | E | 684 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Los Angeles Academy Middle | M | 686 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Mary McLeod Bethune Middle | M | 686 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Panorama City Elementary | E | 686 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Alta California Elementary | E | 687 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Henry T. Gage Middle | M | 687 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Weigand Avenue Elementary | E | 689 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Hillcrest Drive Elementary | E | 690 |
| Los Angeles Unified | Sixth Avenue Elementary | E | 692 |
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