Enrollment & School of Choice *

IMPORTANT NOTE: For students with an active Individualized Education Plan (IEP), school enrollment will be based on the IEP team's determination that the requested school is able to provide a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to the student. All offers of enrollment will be pending until the IEP team’s determination of FAPE can be made.

Transitional Kindergarten enrollment packets are NOW AVAILABLE on our Kindergarten Programs page. You can also pick up a Transitional Kindergarten (TK) enrollment packet at the District Office at 101 West Cochran Street between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Transitional Kindergarten (TK) offers children who don’t meet the age requirement for regular Kindergarten (per California law) to have an opportunity to build their readiness skills and abilities. The 2025-2026 TK program is open to children born on or before September 1, 2021. TK programs bridge Preschool and Kindergarten, and provide young learners with opportunities to learn and grow in an environment that is tailored to meet their academic and social needs. TK is the first of a two-year program. Upon completion of TK, students promote to Kindergarten.

TK is NOT a School of Choice program. It may not be available at every campus. Enrollment is handled through the District Office, and students are placed according to location, the schools where older siblings attend and available space. In the 2025-2026 school year, Transitional Kindergarten will be open to children born between September 2, 2020, and September 1, 2021. For more information, please go to our Kindergarten Programs page.

Kindergarten for the 2025-2026 school year is open to children born on or before September 1, 2020. If you are attending your neighborhood school (SVUSD neighborhood school Boundary Maps are HERE), enrollment packets are available after February 12 through your school. Please contact them directly for more information.

If you are considering enrolling your Kindergarten child in a school that is not your neighborhood school, you will participate in our School of Choice program. School of Choice allows families to place children in schools outside of their neighborhood boundaries as long as the target school has room for additional students. Please know that the School of Choice deadline is February 7, 2025. Applications received after the deadline will be placed on a wait list with the individual school site(s). In the 2025-2026 school year, Kindergarten will be open to children born between September 2, 2019, and September 1, 2020. For more information, please go to our Kindergarten Programs page.

Enrollment in your neighborhood school begins February 12, 2024. Just go to your school and get the needed forms and information. They will be happy to help you. We do ask that you enroll them as soon as possible because it helps us in planning for staffing needs for the upcoming year. If you need to see which school is your neighborhood school, this is the link for the Boundary Maps. Thank you and we cannot wait to meet you!

Almost all of our Simi Valley Schools are considered School of Choice (SOC). (The standing exceptions to SOC are Hollow Hills Elementary School and Vista Elementary School, which are Fundamental schools; Arroyo Elementary School's Dual Language Academy; and Santa Susana High School, which is a magnet school.)  As long as the school is not filled to its capacity with existing students and incoming neighborhood students, students living outside the neighborhood boundaries of a school may apply to enroll in that school, and the school may accept these students until the school is filled to capacity. If there are more applications than there are available spots for interested students, the school will conduct a random lottery to select the number of students they are able to accept.

School of Choice Application

SOC applications must be submitted online. Students living in a school's boundary area have first priority and do not need to complete a SOC application. (Please click HERE for a Boundary Area Map.)

Dual Language ACADEMY AT ARROYO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Fundamental Elementary SchoolS: HOLLOW HILLS AND VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

SANTA SUSANA HIGH SCHOOL, A Magnet High School

MONTE VISTA SCHOOL, AN Independent StudY ACADEMy

• COPY of Original Birth Certificate: This is the official certificate issued by the county of your child's birth. It usually has a raised seal on it. This is NOT the certificate the hospital issues to you upon birth.  
• Proof of Residency: A current utility bill (electric, gas or water) or a lease or rental agreement.
• Immunizations: Up-to-date for ALL students, including Transitional and Kindergarten programs. (Please see the Parent's Guide to Immunizations for Entering Schools link here for detailed information on what immunizations are required and when.)
• Oral Health Assessment Form: Completed by your dentist, this form is required for all Kindergarten students. An oral health assessment conducted up to a year before that start of kindergarten, or by May 31 of your child’s Kindergarten year, satisfies this requirement. 
• Report of Health Examination Form: Required for enrollment into Kindergarten. This physical examination must be completed and dated by your child's doctor no earlier than 6 months before the start of school. 

** A Health Examination is NOT required for enrollment into Transitional Kindergarten (TK)**

Kindergarten Programs, Including Transitional Kindergarten

Parent's Guide to Immunizations for Entering Schools

Guide to Simi Valley Schools