We welcome your child and your family to Eugene School District 4J!
If you live in the district, you may enroll your student in your neighborhood school at any time. You can find your neighborhood school online. You also may request to have your child attend a different 4J school through the district’s school choice transfer process. The annual school choice transfer request period for 4J resident families is January 1–31 prior to fall enrollment.
Eugene School District 4J also welcomes families who live outside of the district to request a transfer to 4J schools. For more information and a list of 4J schools open to non-residents, please see the Out of District (Non-Resident) Transfer Information page. The annual interdistrict transfer request period for non-resident families is March 1–31 prior to fall enrollment.
Lotteries are held after each request period to determine the order in which transfer offers will be granted.
Post-lottery transfer requests from 4J resident and non-resident families are accepted beginning May 1 prior to fall enrollment and through mid-December. Post-lottery transfer requests will be offered available seats or placed on school waiting lists by priority and in the order they are received.
Who can apply for school choice
4J resident: To apply for a school choice transfer as a 4J resident, your student must be a 4J resident as of the date of the request and entering a grade K–11 in the fall.
Non-resident: To apply for an interdistrict transfer as a non-resident, your student must be a current Oregon resident entering a grade K–11 in the fall.
There are no early waiting lists for 4J schools, and the district enrolls students at age-appropriate grade levels.
School choice transfer lottery periods (subject to change)
For fall enrollment, requests will be accepted:
- January 1–January 31 at 11:59 p.m. for 4J residents
- March 1–March 31 at 11:59 p.m. for non-residents
For fall enrollment, lottery results will be emailed to parents/guardians:
- No later than February 15 for 4J residents
- No later than April 30 for non-residents
Post-lottery placement requests
After the 4J and non-resident school choice transfer lotteries, request forms may be submitted beginning May 1–mid-December for the current school year. Post-lottery school choice transfer requests are placed in the order received, not by lottery. If the requested school is currently full, students will be placed on the waiting list based on date of request submission and certain priorities. For example, if the requesting student is a returning student or sibling of a current student, they will be placed on the waiting list behind other students with the same priority who applied at an earlier date/time, and ahead of students who do not have that priority.
Deadline to respond to school placement offers
Offered seats must be accepted within 5 days. When a seat is available for a student, it appears in the account dashboard and a notification email is sent. The parent/guardian must log in to their school choice account and click Accept or Decline. If no action is taken by the parent/guardian by the 5th business day, the system will auto-decline the seat offer and offer the seat to the next student on the waiting list.
Please feel free to visit 4j School Choice or contact schoolchoice@4j.lane.edu with questions regarding the 4J School Choice program.
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