Waivers

In-District Waivers:

• Kindergarten students need to enroll at their home school prior to submitting a waiver.
• Middle school and high school students need to enroll/register at their home school - unless they have an approved waiver. If your the waiver is approved, your enrollment will be moved to the requested school.
• Moving? - If you are a current student and move out of your resident school address and would like to remain at the school you must submit the waiver request within 2 (two) weeks of moving for review. It will be processed as a new waiver request and approval is based on capacity, successful academic, attendance and discipline records.

Out-of-District Waivers:

Current out-of-district students attending the Northshore School District must submit a new choice transfer request every year. The approval of the request is not guaranteed. Waivers may be approved at their current school, as long as:

• there is no academic, attendance or discipline issues;
• their choice transfer has been submitted prior to the start of the school year.

Students transitioning from elementary school to middle school (5th to 6th) and middle school to high school (8th to 9th) are processed as new waiver requests.

ALL WAIVERS (in-district and out-of-district) will be considered based on:

• space availability (except for employee waivers)
• attendance records
• discipline records
• academic records

Schools that are closed to new waivers are not able to accept any waivers except for children of district employees. Click below to view schools closed to new waivers.

School Closed to New Waivers

Northshore School District will not be accepting waivers for the 2024-2025 school year for the following schools.

Elementary Schools:
Arrowhead
Canyon Creek
Cottage Lake
Crystal Springs
Eastridge
Fernwood
Maywood Hills
Ruby Bridges
Wellington
Westhill
Woodin
Woodmoor

Middle Schools:
Canyon Park
Kenmore 
Northshore
Leota
Skyview
Timbercrest

High Schools:
Bothell
Inglemoor
North Creek
Woodinville