Key Points about Transitional Kindergarten (TK) Application/Pre-Enrollment and Placement for the 2025–2026 School Year

The application window to apply for priority ranking for your TK eligible child goes through March 28th.  After that you can still apply but will not benefit from priority ranking.

REMINDER:  If you applied for Choice during the Choice window for TK you still need to apply online to your neighborhood school for TK and click the CHOICE button to alert the reviewers that you have a Choice application on record.
 

The information below is the same as what was previously sent March 14th:

We are so grateful to everyone who is interested in applying to attend TK next year at our school.  The information below is as we have interpreted it after various meetings and workshops with the district’s Neighborhood Schools and Enrollment Options (NSEO) office.  Please share this information with your neighbors with TK age children as you see fit.  Please defer to the district’s information should something be written differently here compared to the district website or posted TK enrollment workshop video:  https://www.sandiegounified.org/departments/neighborhood_schools_and_enrollment_options/universal_transitional_kindergarten_utk.

Key Take-Aways

  • TK application/pre-enrollment, school placements and seat offers take place through the NSEO office for all district schools.
  • Children must be 4 years old by September 1, 2025 to be eligible to enroll in TK for the next school year.
  • TK application/pre-enrollment begins Saturday March 15th and the initial phase lasts thru March 28th.  This initial 2-week ‘window’ is not “first come, first served.”  No need to stay up late into the night to apply.
  • The district's priority is keeping siblings together when possible.
  • You can accept enrollment at your neighborhood school and remain on the Choice list for another school if you applied for Choice.
  • Overflow applicants, those who cannot be seated at their school of residence, will be offered seats in the next closest school in the cluster with space available.  Waitlists to attend the school of residence are not available.
  • Sunset View has 60 total seats.  We have 3 TK classrooms with a maximum of 20 students in each room and 2 teachers per room.

The TK Application/Pre-Enrollment Process

  • Per the workshops provided by the NSEO office, parents will submit both the application/pre-enrollment information and upload supporting documents using the district's web portal on this webpage:  https://www.sandiegounified.org/departments/neighborhood_schools_and_enrollment_options/universal_transitional_kindergarten_utk.
  • Parents can use their phone, tablet or other web-enabled device to access the online portal.
  • If you do not have web access our office will have a laptop available for onsite portal access since no paper applications will be accepted.
  • The Enrollment Form and Home Language Survey are integrated into the online enrollment website.  In the Enrollment Form be sure to enter the child’s name exactly as it appears on the birth certificate, including punctuation.

The following documents are required for uploading.  You can take pictures or screenshots of this information/paperwork using your electronic device to create files to upload:

  1. Birth Certificate, Baptismal Certificate, or Passport (must show the name of at least one parent listed on the enrollment form; include other legal paperwork to show relationship if different.)
  2. Immunization Records as they stand at the time of upload.
  3. Proof of Residency such as a utility bill, cable/internet bill, or trash bill.  Military housing orders (up to 6 months in advance and not including waitlist) and mortgage documents for a recent home purchase can also be submitted.
  4. IEP or 504 Plan, if applicable.

Seat Offers and Acceptance

  • The NSEO office reviews the information and documents submitted to confirm the child’s eligibility for TK enrollment.  After reviewing, they will determine the seat offer ranking and school placement offer.
  • After their review an e-mail notice will be generated by the NSEO office with the enrollment status.  Be sure to check the spam/junk folder for the email.  
  • Families will have 72 hours to accept or decline their seat offer once issued. 
  • Accepting an offer at your neighborhood school does not remove you from the Choice list if you applied for another school.
  • After ranking eligible resident siblings and Choice siblings the NSEO office will proceed down the priority ranking order until all seats have been accepted.   See priority ranking details in the video or the list below.
  • If additional seats are open after the initial 2-week window and there are more applicants than seats, the seat offers will be by lottery instead of rankings.
  • Last year most seat placements were set within the first 4-6 weeks after the online portal opened.  

Enrollment priority rankings:

  1. Resident students with a sibling currently enrolled at the school
  2. In-district-boundary students who completed the Choice application during the priority window and have a sibling currently enrolled at the school
  3. Resident students
  4. Students whose parent is an employee at the school
  5. In-district-boundary overflow students from surrounding schools
  6. Out-of-district-boundary Choice students with a sibling currently enrolled at the school
  7. Any other Choice students.

Note: Students do not need to live within the school district boundaries to enroll in TK. However, out-of-district-boundary students will be offered enrollment in schools with space available after all in-district students have been placed. To learn more about how to submit a Choice application  (https://www.sandiegounified.org/cms/one.aspx?pageId=28033813) and request an interdistrict attendance permit (https://www.sandiegounified.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=27732478&pageId=28033829).

For more information about TK enrollment please visit this district website which currently hosts the current year’s UTK information and TK information: https://www.sandiegounified.org/departments/neighborhood_schools_and_enrollment_options/universal_transitional_kindergarten_utk. 

What Comes Next

If you accept a seat your child is now officially part of the Sunset View family.  Congratulations!

The information and documents uploaded during TK application/pre-enrollment are shared with the school as part of your basic enrollment paperwork.  Additional paperwork will be requested after school is back in session next year when the other new and returning students are all confirming their enrollment form information and submitting additional information as is required each year.

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Open Enrollment During the School Year & Pre-Enrollment Before the School Year

BEFORE CONTINUING please confirm your address at the District's School Finder website.  Click on the 'Enrollment' link above in the blue bar to see current information.

  • Pre-Enrollment for the next school year starts during the Spring of the current school year and ends on the Wednesday that occurs the same week as the last day of school.  Pre-Enrollment continues starting on Tuesday, two weeks prior to the first day of the school year and ends the first day of school.
  • Open Enrollment starts the first day of school and continues throughout the school year.  Enrollment is always open to students within our neighborhood boundaries except UTK.  Please see the Enrollment tab for UTK enrollment information.
  • School tours occur in the fall and spring.  Please email our clerk at [email protected] with the first and last name of each adult who will attend the tour, their email plus phone number to RSVP.
  • Neighborhood or Choice students enrolled at Sunset View at the end of the current school year automatically continue with us the next year and subsequent years with no need to submit new documents except for some UTK students and others who enrolled with special circumstances.  Please contact us at [email protected] or 858-988-2000 if you have questions about your next school year enrollment.  See the Choice information below for additional information.
  • SDUSD strongly urges parents to ensure their child is fully potty-trained before attending UTK.  Kinders must be potty trained for school.  Please read the Potty Training Guide  and if you have questions about your child's potty training status, please discuss this with the classroom teacher at the start of the school year.
  • Please click this Next-Year Readiness link for skill information in Reading, Writing and Math which are useful for establishing a solid foundation for incoming Kinder through 4th graders.  Kinder Readiness also includes information on Social/Emotional, Self Help and Motor Skills. 

 

Enrolling when Sunset View is not your neighborhood school

The Choice program allows families to enroll in a school outside of their neighborhood boundaries.  The Choice "window" opens each year in the fall for parents to apply for the following school year.  If you missed the Choice Window you can still apply with the Neighborhood Schools & Enrollment Options office and be placed on a waitlist.  Choice enrollment is not guaranteed and depends on various circumstances and enrollment availability.  Please click the Choice Enrollment Guide for additional information.  Children accepted into the Choice program will need their own transportation in place, none is available through the school district.

AFTER THE FALL CHOICE WINDOW CLOSES, please contact Neighborhood Schools and Enrollment Options about enrolling in a non-neighborhood school.  You can submit a Choice enrollment request at anytime. 

 

For Enrollment and Waitlist questions for the Point Loma Cluster please contact Erika Oortgiese [email protected] at Neighborhood Schools and Enrollment Options (NSEO) 4100 Normal St, Annex 12 (619) 260-2410, Ext. 2433. The schools do not have information about a child's location on the NSEO waitlist.

 

Neighborhood Schools and Enrollment Options 
[email protected]
Phone:  (619) 260-2410
Hours:   Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm

The information above is what we have interpreted.  Please click the Choice Enrollment Guide for more information.  If something is written differently here compared to their website, please use their information instead.

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