Enrolling Students

Welcome to the Sun Prairie School District!

We are very proud of our students, staff and surrounding community and would like to invite you to join our school district. We are committed to inspiring and preparing every child, every day, by providing relevant, engaging and innovative learning experiences in and out of the classroom.

We look forward to serving you!

Who is eligible to attend?

Begin the Online Enrollment Process

What happens next?

After you have submitted the Online Enrollment Form, your school will reach out to you coordinate tech, schedule's and classroom placement.

Parents/Guardians will receive an email with information on how to access their Parent Portal account in Infinite Campus or click here to complete the Portal Application form. Through the Parent Portal, you can access your student's grades, attendance, fees, student schedules, and more!

Open Enrollment

Public School Open Enrollment allows parents/guardians to apply for their children to attend a school district other than the one in which they reside. Parents/guardians normally apply for open enrollment for the following school year during a three-month application period which begins in February and ends on the last weekday in April. However, 2011 Act 114 established a procedure by which parents may apply for open enrollment outside of the regular application period using the Alternative Open Enrollment Application.

More information about the Alternative Open Enrollment procedure can be found on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) website.

Please email Lisa Sprindis or call 608.834.6511, if you have any questions regarding the open enrollment application process. You will also find answers to frequently asked questions about Open Enrollment HERE.

2022-2023 Open Enrollment Information
Resident students will be placed in schools based on their home address, not their preference, so a similar objective system has been developed for open enrollment students. This map was developed to extend our new high school boundaries outward beyond the district boundaries. The western portion will feed into Sun Prairie West High School and the eastern portion will feed into Sun Prairie East High School. Prairie Phoenix Academy may serve any high school student regardless of home address.

Open enrollment students must attend their assigned high school using this map. Since certain elementary and middle schools “feed” into each high school, open enrollment students must attend elementary and middle schools that will feed into their appropriate high school based on the map and new open enrollment boundaries.

All students currently in grades 8-11 will transition in the fall of 2022 to their assigned high school. Some open enrollment students in grades K-7 are currently placed in schools that do not feed their assigned high school. If the school they are currently attending is not within the correct feeder school system, the student must transfer into the correct system by the time that they enter the next school level (i.e. 6th or 9th grade). Alternatively, families may choose to transition sooner to a school in the correct feeder system to provide more time for their child to get to know peers. All new open enrollment students will be placed according to the map.

Frequently Asked Question and Feeder School System Map

Please email Lisa Sprindis or call 608.834.6511, if you have any questions regarding the open enrollment application process.

School Placement

All students are placed after Proof of Residency is provided. Failure to provide proof of residency will delay enrollment.

Students are placed according to residence address (per Board Policy JC, School Attendance Areas). To determine which school is assigned to your residential address, please see the School Attendance Area information.

The Sun Prairie Area School District has class size guidelines which help ensure the best educational programs throughout district schools. Placement of your child(ren) in a particular school will depend on the enrollment numbers and class sizes for your area school.

Enrollment FAQ's

Attendance Areas

All resident students in grades 6-12 will attend their new boundary school in the fall of 2022. School boundaries for grades 6-12 were recommended through the work of the Secondary Boundary and Bell Time Task Force and approved by the School Board. With these new boundaries, students are assigned to a school based on their home address regardless of which school they are currently attending. Given the large number of students needing to transition during this reconfiguration, students will not be allowed to remain at their current school for subsequent grades (a process typically called grandfathering). Grandfathering is not practical due to the magnitude of this shift in enrollment.

Voluntary Placement Process
Because it undermines several district priorities, the practice of Voluntary Placement has be phased out. Only families that have a current Voluntary Placed child will be allowed to apply for Voluntary Placement for an incoming younger sibling to attend the same school. Applications received by new families would not be accepted.