BCBE Zone Variance

  • We anticipate having the 2025-2026 zone variance request forms available on June 2, 2025.  

    Parents of incoming kindergarten students should enroll their children in their current school zone.  They may submit zone variance requests once the 2025-2026 forms are released.  If a kindergarten request is approved, parents can contact school registrars to initiate transfers at that time.

     
    Zone Variance Criteria:
    1. We approve zone variances for teachers who request that their children be allowed to attend a school in the feeder pattern in which they are employed.
    2. There is an extreme hardship on the family that cannot be overcome in any other situation.
     
    Most of the extreme hardships we approve are financial situations.  For example, a family is displaced and must move in with a family member or friend.  Another example of extreme hardship might be behavioral issues or harmful situations. In the best interests of the student, a zone variance is necessary.
     
    Extreme hardship may not be construed to include dissatisfaction with personnel in the school in the zone in which the pupil resides, or dissatisfaction with curriculum offerings, which are non-academic or extracurricular activity offerings in the school zone in which the pupil resides. One of the situations that do not fall under the hardship distinction is “convenience”.  For example, if a parent works in the community where the new school is located it is more convenient for them if their child attends the school where he/she works.  Another might be that a school provides a program that the student’s original school does not, or the program is more advanced than the original school. This is also not considered a hardship.