How are schools selected, designated, and placed on the list of Open Enrollment schools?
EC Section 48352 (a)(2) states that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction “annually shall create a list of 1,000 schools ranked by increasing API with the same ratio of elementary, middle, and high schools as existed in decile 1 in the 2008–09 school year. (2) In constructing the list of 1,000 schools each year, the Superintendent shall ensure each of the following: (A) A local educational agency shall not have more than 10 percent of its schools on the list. However, if the number of schools in a local educational agency is not evenly divisible by 10, the Superintendent shall round up to the next whole number of schools. (B) Court, community, or community day schools shall not be included on the list. (C) Charter schools shall not be included on the list.” California Code of Regulations, Title 5, Section 4701(a)(2)(E) provides for the exclusion of schools from the Open Enrollment list that are not schools of a district of residence as defined in EC Section 48352(d). However,
