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Enrollment

Thank you for your interest in Short Avenue Elementary School. We are an LAUSD UTK-5th grade elementary school. We are an International Baccalaureate World School.

 

Neighborhood Resident Applicants 

For the 2025/26 school year, children must turn 5 years old by September 1, 2025 to be enrolled in our Kindergarten program.  Eligible children for our Universal Transitional Kindergarten program are born between September 2, 2020 and September 1, 2021. You can check your child’s correct grade level here. Please be sure to check the  2025/26 school year before entering in your child's birthdate.

If Short Ave is your designated school of residence, you are guaranteed enrollment. Below is the boundary map. You can also check your address here.

 

Enrollment for our neighborhood resident families for the 2025/26 school year opens on Monday March 3th, 2025. Please come to our main office at 12814 Maxella Ave. with the following documents (original documents only – copies will be made and the originals will be returned): 
  • Driver’s License or Photo ID
  • Birth Certificate (hospital certificate is allowed; NO Passports)
  • Provide Proof of Residency - Please provide one of the following:
    • Current utility bill (electric, gas, or water) showing address (no telephone bills)
    • Current bank statement
    • Copy of escrow papers (if purchasing)
    • Property tax papers
    • Official lease agreement with name and phone # of lessor
  • Provide Proof of Immunizations (please provide current documentation from your child’s doctor.) Students must have the following:
    • 2 MMR
    • 3 Hepatitis B
    • 2 Varicella (Chicken Pox)
    • 5 DTP
    • 4 Polio
  • *Report card/transcript from your current school (1st grade and above)
  • *GATE, IEP and/or 504 Plan, if applicable (1st grade and above)
 
 
 

Sibling Families

Current Short Avenue families on permit are not guaranteed a spot for a younger sibling.  Families with a younger sibling are asked to please fill out the google form that will be in the Weekly Wave starting November 3rd, 2024. This will indicate your interest and will add you to the Sibling Waitlist. Siblings of current students will be given priority, when accepting students off of the waitlist.

 

Non-Resident Applicants Needing a Permit

  1. Our January 30th Tour is now closed. We will not be having another tour for families who live outside of our designated neighborhood residence area this year. We do not anticipate having very many permit spots available for any grade level, but if you would like to join our waitlist, you may email [email protected] on or after Monday, February 3rd to be added to our waitlist. 

  2. If we have space, families will need either an Inter-District Permit or an Intra-District Permit. LAUSD permit. information can be found at https://www.lausd.org/Page/17470.
    1. Inter-District Permits are for families who live outside of the Los Angeles Unified School District.  Special permission is required to leave your resident school district to join LAUSD.
    2. Intra-District Permits are for families who live within the Los Angeles Unified School District but want to attend a school that is not their resident area school.

 

This process of accepting students from outside our zone of residence is fluid and there is no set timeline.  If we know we have space in a grade-level we can make decisions faster.  If we are close to capacity this process could very well extend into August and could have decisions being made after the school year has started.