Area Change Requests (ACR)

For enrollment, we use the student’s primary residence.  If we find that an address other than the student's true primary residence has been used to gain access to a specific school, then all rights and privileges accorded through this district administrative regulation regarding the choice of school shall be forfeited.

Students who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, camping grounds or trailer parks due to lack of alternative accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; are awaiting foster care placement; have a primary nighttime residence that is a private or public place not designed for ordinary use as regular sleeping accommodations for human beings; are living in a car, park, public space, abandoned building, bus or train station or similar setting; will not be denied or delayed school enrollment due to lack of any document normally required for determining primary residence. 

Please review the Family Resources page for specific information on the McKinney-Vento Act and how to connect with our Liaison.

Students whose primary residence is within the city of Sunriver (Three Rivers School boundary) have the option to enroll at their choice of Caldera High School or La Pine High School and receive transportation. Once a student begins attending either Caldera High or La Pine High, that high school will be considered the student's home area high school, and they may not switch to the other school without following the Attendance Area Change Request process.

If a student who resides in this boundary choice attendance area and who has begun attending either Caldera High or La Pine High would like to transfer to a different high school in the district, that student must follow the procedures for an Attendance Area Change Request as described above.

Students who live outside Bend-La Pine Schools boundaries and want to enroll in the district, follow the guidance set on our Inter-District Transfer page.