Seattle Public Schools has released a schedule of daytime school visits that will be available at every school over the next few weeks, aimed at helping parents and guardians learn more about the instructional environment during the school day.

The new student assignment plan and new attendance area boundaries were approved by the School Board in 2009 and the transition plan rules for 2010-11 were approved this month. The new plan will be implemented in phases beginning with the 2010-11 school year. Students currently enrolled may remain at their current school through the highest grade as long as the services the student needs are available at the school.

All current students in grades K-12 and those who will be new to the district in fall 2010 and who enrolled during early registration will receive their assignment letter in late February. The plan will be phased in, and students entering grades K, 6 and 9 will be assigned to their attendance area schools. If families wish to apply to attend another school, they may do so during Open Enrollment, (March 1-31, 2010).

The schedule for each school is listed below. For interpretation services, please contact the school three days before the scheduled school visit date. Schools are also holding evening or Saturday open houses beginning in mid-January. Open house schedule information along with important information about the new assignment plan and enrollment, attendance area boundary maps and an address look-up tool that will display attendance area schools based on entering the student’s address are available at www.seattleschools.org.

The full visits schedule is available for download as a PDF file from the link above.