In order to accommodate IUSD  students , each residential area is assigned to a particular school at each grade level. An assigned school is obligated to serve first all the students from its assigned attendance area who wish to enroll there. Open enrollment, where seats are available, and Alternative Schools, provide choices for students who wish to enroll in a school other than their assigned neighborhood school.

Annually, the Board considers changes to School Attendance Area Boundaries. Current Attendance Boundary maps are accessible on-line: Elementary, Middle School, High School. From those same links, assigned neighborhood schools can be determined upon entering the residential address.

Changes are held to a minimum, but are prompted by such factors as:

• Declining enrollment in a given section of the district
• New housing development in a given section of the district
• Changes in capacity at a given school
• Movement of special programs from one school to another
• Alignment of elementary, middle and high school areas
• Home-to-school transportation distances

In all cases of boundary change, no student already enrolled in a school is asked to change schools.  Changes in a boundary in a given year, affect only those students new to that school.