Enrollment and Registration Information
Students new to the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) for the Fall of 2010 need to complete and return the Options Form during the Open Enrollment Window which will take place from December 7, 2009 to 3pm on January 15, 2010. We will attempt to keep this website up to date as more information is available. You may also go to the OUSD enrollment page for information.
Options Information
December 3 - Options Help Night. Feel free to come by and ask staff any questions you have about the process or filling out your forms.
December 7 - January 15 is the Options Window for the 2010-2011 school year. You must file your Options Form and the appropriate documentation within this timeframe. Filing the paperwork does not guarantee admission. Applications turned in after the Options Window closes are considered LATE and will not participate in the first round of lottery and placements.
Tour Dates: Tours for parents of prospective students for 2010-2011 will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on the following dates.
Tuesday, October 6 and 20
Tuesday, November 3 and 17
Tuesday, December 1 and 15
Tuesday, January 5 and 19
Please call the school office (879-1270) to sign up. We meet on the playground promptly at 8:30 a.m. and after dismissing the students from Opening Ceremony the Principal will take the parents on a tour of the school and will answer any questions they may have.
Kindergarten Information Night: December 9, 2009 at 7pm in the Kindergarten classroom.
Middle School Information Night: January 13, 2010 at 7pm in the Multi-Purpose Room.
March 8, 2010: OUSD will send letters notifying you of your child's school assignment for the 2010-2011 school year. If your letter states Hillcrest as your child’s school, you must complete the required forms and bring your placement letter for Registration at the Hillcrest Office. If you do not follow the instructions in the letter, your space will be forfeited and given to a child on the waitlist.
OUSD Events
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Options for Success Enrollment Workshop
at Howard Elementary
Oakland Adult and Career Education’s Parenting Education Department, in partnership with School Portfolio Management and the Family & Community Office, is offering a Parenting Education class called Options For Success.
This workshop is designed to help families navigate the OUSD Options Enrollment Process. The class provides an overview of the Options Process, a review of the information needed to complete the Options application for 2010-11, and shows parents how to increase chances of being admitted to the school that is best for their child. Click here to download a schedule of workshops, and call Suzanna Mori at (510) 434-7771 to reserve a space at this session.
Howard Elementary, 8755 Fontaine Street, 94605.
Thursday, January 07, 2010 – 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Options for Success Enrollment Workshop at
Harriet Tubman Early Childhood Education Center
Oakland Adult and Career Education’s Parenting Education Department, in partnership with School Portfolio Management and the Family & Community Office, is offering a Parenting Education class called Options For Success.
This workshop is designed to help families navigate the OUSD Options Enrollment Process. The class provides an overview of the Options Process, a review of the information needed to complete the Options application for 2010-11, and shows parents how to increase chances of being admitted to the school that is best for their child. Click here to download a schedule of workshops, and call Suzanna Mori at (510) 434-7771 to reserve a space at this session.
Harriet Tubman Early Childhood Education Center, 800 33rd Street, 94608.
Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Options for Success Enrollment Workshop at Roots International Academy
Oakland Adult and Career Education’s Parenting Education Department, in partnership with School Portfolio Management and the Family & Community Office, is offering a Parenting Education class called Options For Success.
This workshop is designed to help families navigate the OUSD Options Enrollment Process. The class provides an overview of the Options Process, a review of the information needed to complete the Options application for 2010-11, and shows parents how to increase chances of being admitted to the school that is best for their child. Click here to download a schedule of workshops, and call Suzanna Mori at (510) 434-7771 to reserve a space at this session.
Roots International Middle School, 1390 66th Avenue, 94621.
Important Advisory for Parents of incoming Kindergartners:
Living in the Hillcrest neighborhood does not guarantee enrollment at Hillcrest for incoming kindergarten children. Hillcrest has limited site capacity. If more children apply than spots are available, the District may redirect students to other Oakland schools. Please contact the District for more information.
OUSD established new enrollment priorities as of June 2008. When faced by more applicants than spaces available for kindergarten at Hillcrest, the OUSD will give priority in the following order under its new policy:
- Neighborhood and non-neighborhood siblings of existing students, provided that both the sibling and new student will be enrolled in the school during the coming school year;
- Neighborhood non-siblings;
- Students redirected from their neighborhood school within the Claremont Middle School Boundary;
- Students whose neighborhood school is a program improvement school.
- Lottery.
To illustrate how this policy works, consider the situation in which there are 60 kindergarten applicants who are either siblings of existing students or who reside in the school's attendance area but are not siblings of existing students and there is a target of 40 spots for kindergarten in a school. Of the 60, there are 22 prospective students that are siblings of existing students who will continue at the school in the coming school year and 38 are neighborhood residents who do not have siblings already at the school. The policy dictates that all siblings are admitted first. This leaves approximately 18 spots for non-siblings who reside in the neighborhood. To fill these 18 spots, OUSD will randomly select 18 of the 38 neighborhood non-siblings. The 20 remaining students will be given an alternate school in OUSD based on their selections on the Options form. These 20 students will have priority after siblings and neighborhood students but before program improvement students at the schools within the applicable middle school boundary. For Hillcrest, the board determined that the applicable middle school boundary consists of the following schools: (1) Chabot Elementary; (2) Kaiser Elementary; (3) Emerson Elementary; (4) Peralta Elementary; (5) Sankofa Elementary.
What Can Parents Do?
- Anticipate that there will be limited spots.
- Understand that enrollment at Hillcrest is not guaranteed.
- Ensure that they understand and fully complete all forms for the OUSD Options Program.Visit Chabot, Kaiser, or any other school to which a student may be redirected prior to completing the Options form.
- Explore all schooling options for their children that they deem appropriate and not assume that every neighborhood child will be admitted to Hillcrest.
Intra-District Transfers
It is not expected that there will be any open spots in the upper grades for transfers to Hillcrest from other schools in the district.
Enrolling After Kindergarten
Please visit the Student Assignment Office (2111 International Boulevard, 510-434-7780) if you plan to enroll your child after the Open Enrollment window has closed. All placements are made through this office; there are no waiting lists at the school sites.
Additional Information
- OUSD Options Enrollment policy details: Go to the OUSD web site at http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us. Click on Students & Families --> Enroll. Yes, it's a big, complicated website.
Or, if they don't move the link, try here.
- OUSD Student Assignment Office:
2111 International Blvd, Room 1
Oakland, CA 94606
510-434-7780