Open Enrollment is for students who live outside of Lakeville Area Schools boundaries, but wish to attend school in the district. Minnesota Statute 124D.03 allows all Minnesota’s public school students the opportunity to apply to attend school outside of the school district where they live.

Please note: Per Minnesota Statute, a School Board may limit, by resolution, nonresident enrollment in its schools or programs if open enrollment exceeds one percent of the total enrollment at each grade level in the district. Currently, across Lakeville Area Schools, the current percentage of open enrolled students exceeds the one percent rule by grade level, ranging anywhere from 4 percent to 9.5 percent.

Open Enrollment was closed for the 2020-21 school year based on the following percentages:

• Kindergarten was capped at 4% of the grade level
• Grades 1-8 was capped at 5% of the grade level
• Grades 9-12 was capped at 8% of the grade level

The district was required by the State to give priority to enrolling siblings of currently enrolled students, students whose applications were related to an approved integration and achievement plan, and children of the school district’s staff. Children who were open-enrolled into the district’s early-childhood special education programs were also given priority.

Please fill out and return the Open Enrollment Application for K-12 Gen. Ed. and Early Childhood Special Education form.

• Open Enrollment Application for K-12 Gen Ed and Early Childhood Special Education
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How to Submit Your Application

Please complete the above Open Enrollment Application form and deliver by email, fax or mail/drop-off to the following:

Email: Mary.Moody@isd194.org

Fax: 952-469-6054

Mail/drop-off: 
Lakeville Area Schools District Office
17630 Juniper Path, Suite A
Lakeville, MN 55044

After Receiving Approval: Online Enrollment

After you've received approval from the District Office for Open Enrollment, you can begin the online enrollment process. During the online enrollment process you will need to upload the following information:

• proof of residency
• copy of birth certificate, passport or hospital record
• current immunization record

Complete the online enrollment process.

While waiting for a decision regarding your Open Enrollment application, you are welcome to attend Information Sessions scheduled at your first-choice school, with the understanding that your student may or may not be offered a spot in the district or approved for that school. If you submit paperwork at a school other than where your student might end up being placed, the paperwork can be easily transferred to the school building of placement.

Please contact your first-choice school for upcoming information sessions.

Approval into the District is permanent through your child's graduation. However, when your student transitions to the next level building, you will need to submit a new application. Although we give high priority to allowing students to transition with their peers provided space is available in that school building, if space is not available, open enrolled students will be offered placement into one of the other school buildings within the district.

An Open Enrollment Application would also be required if a student’s primary residence address were to change to a different resident district than the one they lived in when they were originally accepted into the district.