What is School Choice?

General Process

1. Complete an Online Registration
2. Create an Infinite Campus Parent Portal account. You should receive the invitation to create an account 1 to 2 days after your registration has been approved.
3. Submit a School Choice request through your Infinite Campus Parent Portal account during the School Choice window. (See Timeline Details above.)
4. Wait for the School Choice results to be posted. 
   NOTE: After you have successfully submitted your School Choice request, you will see a status of "Currently Unavailable" until after the School Choice results have been posted.

Timeline Details for the 2023/2024 School Year

Opened: December 1, 2022 at 8:00 AM
Closed: February 28, 2023 4:00 PM

Notice of Approval

• Notices of approval will be sent March 13, 2023 at 4:00 PM.  Be sure to read the entire notification and follow all instructions.
• Emails will be sent and a message posted to the Infinite Campus Portal
• All students who are approved for their first, second, or third choice option will automatically be accepted to the new school. 
• Students who did not receive their first, second, or third choice option, but did receive an approval for their fourth choice option, need to confirm their acceptance before March 17, 2023 at 4:00 PM.
  

Things to Know Before You Make a School Choice Request

• The window for School Choice Requests for the 2023/2024 school year is December 1, 2022 at 8:00 AM to February 28, 2023 at 4:00 PM. Requests cannot be submitted outside those dates.GUHSD cannot provide transportation for School Choice families. 
• Sibling transfer eligible families: You must register your student and submit a school choice request prior to the close of the School Choice window.
• When making a school choice request, you may select a first choice option as well as second, third, and fourth choice alternatives:
  • Every effort is made to place as many students as possible into the first choice requests.  When that cannot be accomodated, we will try to accommodate second, third, and fourth choice requests. If none of the requests can be accommodated, your student will be placed in their school of residence.
  • If your school of residence is your first choice, you do not need to submit a school choice request. 
• Sometimes a school will not have space to accommodate all requests.  When that happens, students are selected for that school based on a random lottery of all students whose families submitted requests for that school during the School Choice window. 
• If your student is granted your first or second choice request, it will automatically be accepted for you, and your student will be transferred to that school.  If your student is granted your fourth choice, you must accept that school before the deadline.