SAVE:Application Process and Waivers

This information applies if you live in the Northshore School District service area but would like your child to attend a different school within Northshore School District

Each student in the district is required to attend the school designated for the geographic attendance area in which he or she resides.

If you would like your child to attend a school they are not assigned to within our district, a parent/guardian may fill out a in-district waiver application. Please review the list of schools that are at capacity and unable to accept waivers at this time.  

Please see the following documents for more details:

• In‐district waiver application

This information applies if you live outside of the Northshore School District and would like your child to attend a school within Northshore School District.

Any student who resides outside the district may apply to attend a school in the district. All applications for nonresident attendance will be considered on an equal basis within the parameters of Northshore School District Policy 3141 and state law. Please check the closed schools list to determine if the school you are interested in is open for Choice Transfers. 

• Contact your resident district about their process for completing a Choice Transfer Request as the process must begin there. 
• Complete the request and turn it in to your resident school district.
• Your resident district will process the request and will inform you that the release has been approved or denied.  Notification will be sent to you and to NSD by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
• NSD will then determine approval or denial of the transfer request and OSPI will notify you and your resident district whether your transfer request has been accepted or denied.

A parent/guardian shall apply for admission on behalf of his or her child by submitting a signed release form (choice transfer request) from the resident district in which they reside. Please contact that school district for that form.