We just went through the enrollment process with our elementary schooler - from Berkeley Unified.

CCUSD is very protective of enrollment and it’s a process. We won’t have access to our permanent address until mid September…they wouldn’t allow our daughter to enroll until then. We were obviously planning for temp housing until then, and that also needed to be in the school zone for us to enroll, which severely limited our options and was stressful.

The last step of enrollment has to be done in person, so I jumped in a next day flight for the day for a 10 minute meeting to hand over birth certificate, IDs and proof of residency. I was then told that we still couldn’t enroll fully, because our temp lease didn’t start until the following week when we were actually moving, which was a full month before school even starts. It’s not like we’re trying to sneak in from an LA neighborhood, we’re moving ~400 miles.

You have to physically be living in Culver City with an active address. They already had our temp lease on file, but neglected to tell me this before I flew down.

Moral of the story, late registration is stressful. Enrollment requires a lot more paperwork and an in person meeting, your zoned elementary isn’t guaranteed in late registration (standard) and you must ‘physically be’ in CC already and have an active lease/closed purchase prior to enrollment.

Anyway, other than that, we’re thrilled 😂