The Chandler Unified School District is now accepting open enrollment applications for the 2026-27 school year for K-12 students.

Open enrollment is designed to allow students to attend a school outside a home-boundary school and for any parents living outside all of the CUSD district boundaries who want students to attend a Chandler Unified school.

Parents should prepare to start with an online open enrollment application. The preschool and pre-K registration for the 2026-27 school year, new registration for home-boundary schools or withdrawn CUSD K-12 students who are returning for the 2026-27 school year went live online the morning of Jan. 7.

Google Chrome is the preferred browser to use for online registration.

Open enrollment applications must be approved prior to registering for a school that is not the attendance- boundary school.

Students registering for attendance-boundary schools do not need to fill out an open enrollment application.

Here are some of the documents typically needed for new student registration:

-Household information – address and phone numbers

-Parent/legal guardian information – work and cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses

-Student information – demographic and health information

-Emergency contact – names and phone numbers

-Proof of Residency – current utility bill, lease agreement, etc. (see acceptable proof of residency under additional student registration information on cusd80.com)

-A state-certified birth certificate

-Legal guardian or legal custody papers (if the parent/legal guardian is not on the birth certificate)

Anyone with questions can contact the attendance boundary school. A list of email addresses and phone numbers and much more open enrollment information can be found by clicking here.

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