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Policy JECB

Admission Of Non-Resident Students

  1. Students whose parents or legal guardians are not residents of South Portland may attend  the South Portland Schools only under extraordinary circumstances and, except as  hereinafter provided, only upon payment of established tuition fees. The assignment of  any such students to South Portland schools shall be by the office of the Superintendent  of Schools.  

  1. Tuition fees shall be established by State Statute and/or State Department of Education  regulations. Within one week of enrollment of tuition students, principals shall report to  the Office of the Superintendent of Schools, all necessary information for identification  

  1. of such students and for issuance of tuition bills therefore including name, date of  entrance, school, grade, name and address of parent or guardian and name, address, and  relationship of pupil, with who the student is residing. Tuition bills shall be issued and  payable in a reasonable period of time as established by the administrative assistant for  finance.  

  1. Residence shall be as determined by State Statutes- being where the parent or legal  guardian maintains a home for his family, or in the event of separation of parents, that  place where the person having custody of the student maintains his or her home.  

  1. Tuition may be waved in exceptional cases. Examples are:  

  • Hardship cases as determined by concurrence of the Superintendent of Schools.  

  • Post-graduate students who are residents of the city.  

  • Students who are members of the senior class and whose parents or guardians  move from the city after the fall term begins.  

  • Students, at any age level, whose parents or guardians are in temporary residence  in another school unit (city, town, or district).  

  • Transfer from another administrative unit as approved by the Superintendent of  Schools.  

Legal Reference: Title 20-A MRSA Section 5801 et. Seq.  

Title 20-A MRSA Section 5203 et. Seq.  

Adopted: June 17, 1968  

Revised: June 9, 1975  

Revised: October 13, 1980  

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