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All of Conejo Valley Unified Schools are considered Schools of Choice. As long as a school is not filled to its capacity with existing students and incoming neighborhood students, students living outside the neighborhood boundaries of a school may apply to enroll in that school. School of Choice schools may accept students until they are filled to capacity. If there are more applications than there are available spots for interested students, the District will conduct a random lottery to select the number of students the school is able to accept.

*Please note: School of Choice is only available to school-aged children living in the boundaries of the Conejo Valley Unified School District, children residing outside of CVUSD's boundaries may apply to attend a CVUSD school via the Inter-District Transfer process

Any school-age child living in the boundaries of the Conejo Valley Unified School District may apply for School of Choice.

*Please note: You do not need to submit a School of Choice Application if you are planning to attend your neighborhood school.

To determine your assigned neighborhood school, please use our “Street Index” and “School Locator” map.

SCHOOL CHOICE APPLICATIONS for the 2025-2026 school year will be available ONLINE here beginning on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 8am

*Please Note: Upon approval of your School of Choice application, you forfeit your child’s space at your neighborhood school. If you cancel your application before the start of the school year and space is no longer available at your neighborhood school, you will remain assigned to your school of choice until space is available at your neighborhood school.

*No transportation is provided for school choice applicants

The SCHOOL CHOICE APPLICATION for the 2025-2026 School Year will be available online here beginning on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 8am

11/01/24 - School Choice Application for the 2025-2026 school year is available to complete online

01/31/25 - School Choice Application is due by 11:59 pm to be included in the lottery. 

* 2025-2026 School Choice Applications received after the January 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM lottery deadline will not be eligible for the lottery process, and will be processed on a case by case basis (at schools where there is a wait list, they will be placed on the bottom of the wait list in the order they are received)

03/14/25 - No later than this date (March 14, 2025) decision letters will be emailed to all on-time applicants.

07/01/25 - Last day for returning students to apply via School Choice to a CVUSD Elementary, Middle or High School

09/15/25 - School Choice wait list is canceled 

11/17/25 - 12/12/25 - Application may be submitted for High School 2nd semester (grades 9, 10, and 11 only). This option is only available for those who haven't already submitted a 2025-2026 School Choice Application

Remaining School Choice Application Options for the 2024-2025 School Year

11/18/24 to 12/13/24 - Application may be submitted for high school 2nd semester (9, 10, and 11 only). This option is only available for those who haven’t already submitted a School Choice Application for the 2024/2025 academic year.

**To learn more about the 2024-2025 School Choice Application, and remaining School Choice Application options for the 2024-2025 school year, please call Shannon Snyder, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Instructional Services Department at (805) 497-9511 ext. 1201

View a PDF of Important School Choice Timeline (2025-2026) Information for Elementary Students

View a PDF of Important School Choice Timeline (2025-2026) Information for Secondary Students

School Choice Applications received by the deadline of January 31, 2025 will be approved - or- placed on a wait list in the order determined by a lottery. For applications received by the January 31st lottery deadline, a letter will be e-mailed to you no later than March 14th stating the status of your Application. This letter will state if your Application has been approved, or the wait list number assigned to your child. If your child is on a wait list(s), no further contact will be made unless, or if, your child has been approved for school choice.

*Applications received after the January 31st lottery deadline will not be eligible for the lottery process, and will be processed on a case by case basis (at schools where there is a wait list, they will be placed on the bottom of the wait list in the order they are received)

Yes. Discover Academy is a school within a school at Sequoia Middle School, therefore, even students whose assigned neighborhood school is Sequoia Middle School must apply to Discover Academy via the online School Choice Application. Discover Academy offers the advantages of both traditional and small learning communities. Discover uses engineering and applied sciences as interdisciplinary themes, stresses hands-on innovative, and inquiry based instruction to encourage a lifelong love of learning in students.

In an effort to facilitate increased access to EARThS Magnet School for students who live “proximate” (defined as the Cameo, Conejo Creek and Michael Manor tracts in Newbury Park) to the campus, and/or “in-boundary” (defined as the former Manzanita Boundary) the following three-tiered placement system will be utilized for intradistrict placement for EARThS Magnet School. For detailed information on this, please go to this street index and find “Earths Proximate and In-Boundary Addresses”

Tier 1 - Preschool Program - 10% of EARThS kindergarten spaces shall be set-aside for applicants that are current enrollees of the CVUSD Preschool Program located on the EARThS campus. Following, sibling and employee priority placements will be completed. Further, all on-time kindergarten applicants who reside “proximate” to the EARThS campus will be placed.

Tier 2 – all on-time kindergarten “in-boundary” applicants, based on the previous Manzanita school boundary, will be considered for placement through the Tier 2 lottery process with 15% of the available/remaining kindergarten spaces being allocated. Further, all grades 1 – 5 applicants who reside “proximate” to the EARThS campus will be given priority for placement based on capacity by grade level and the number of applications that qualify under this second tier lottery process.

Tier 3 – all remaining on-time in-boundary and in-district applicants for EARThS Magnet School will be considered for placement through the Tier 3 lottery process with the remaining K-5 spaces being allocated.

Please read AR 5116.1 for more information

Please call (805) 497-9511 ext. 1201 or email ssnyder@conejousd.org

If you are approved for and attend a school of your choosing, that school then becomes your school of residence. If you later choose to return to your school of residence, based on your address, you would need to complete the school choice process again and would be processed as Priority 1.

If you are approved for and accept your first choice, your name will be withdrawn for your second choice. If you are approved for and accept your second choice, you will remain on the waitlist for your first choice.