2025-2026 Pre-Enrollment
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Pre-enrollment meetings are scheduled to prepare for the 2025-2026 school year. Below is the schedule based on current grade levels. Students will attend a pre-enrollment meeting for information and receive materials. They will return another week to meet 1:1 with a counselor to discuss and turn in their pre-enrollment forms. Please take the opportunity to speak with your child about their course plan for next year and the importance of making meaningful selections. Once schedules are set for next year, it is difficult to make changes. |
Important Dates and Enrollment Forms
Overview
Pre-Enrollment is the process that students complete in a given school year to prepare for the next school year. Counselors make group presentations to students regarding opportunities appropriate to their academic year. Counselors also hand out a copy of each student’s current transcript along with a pre-enrollment form. Students are then asked to review the course guide and work with their parents to pick appropriate courses and fill out their pre-enrollment form. Students will be able to see teacher recommendations in their Skyward account and should consult with their teacher if there is a question about the recommended placement. Pre-enrollment forms are returned to counselors during a designated meeting time. At this time, students will use their pre-enrollment form to transfer course requests to Skyward, meet one-on-one with a counselor, and turn in their pre-enrollment form which is then kept by the student’s alpha counselor. Based on the student’s choices, decisions will be made about which courses will be taught for the following school year. Low enrollment may cause a course to be canceled. As a result, students should choose courses carefully and choose their alternate choices equally as carefully. Once all requested courses have been entered into Skyward and level placements are verified the district office works with the scheduling software to complete the scheduling process.
Pre-Enrollment Forms: The paper form that students fill out with their course requests and alternate choices. A parent signature is requested and the form is returned. Students are advised to take a photo of their completed form before turning it in.
Course Requests: During the pre-enrollment process students make course requests. These are recorded both on their pre-enrollment form and in their Skyward account. A request does not mean a student is guaranteed to be scheduled into the course. Schedules are run giving priority to Seniors first, then juniors, sophomores, and lastly freshmen. Students are asked to choose course requests carefully as they will be scheduled into requested courses and not given an opportunity to change later.
Alternate Choices: Efforts are made to schedule students into courses that are requested. In a school that has over 2000 students we are limited by staffing and logistics in the seats we have to offer. Low enrollment requests and staffing changes have caused last minute changes to courses and programs in recent years which have required students to be enrolled in an alternate course request.
Popular Courses: Popular courses are requested by more students than are able to be accommodated. Some courses are requested at a 1:3 ratio meaning that for every seat that exists in the classroom, there are three students hoping to fill it. Only one student gets scheduled in the seat and the other two students are scheduled into an alternate choice. This is why students are asked to choose alternate choices carefully. Staffing and logistics determine the available number of seats in each course or program and it is not possible to meet all student demand.
Teacher Recommendations: As a part of the pre-enrollment process, teachers are asked to make a recommendation for the student’s next course and the appropriate level of rigor. These recommendations are entered into Skyward. Parents and students have an opportunity to review the recommendation and can contact the teacher with any questions or concerns. As teacher’s gather more information and data points throughout the semester they are able to update their recommendations before the scheduling software is run.