The NSAA sent out the following information regarding eligibility for transfers between schools. If you know of any high school student considering a transfer, please share this information with them.
Enrollment Option Transfers
Current NSAA Bylaws 2.7.7.1 and 2.7.7.2 state, “Those students who have their Enrollment Option applications signed and filed prior to March 15 shall be eligible immediately in the fall. Those students who do not have their Enrollment Option applications signed and filed prior to March 15 shall be ineligible for ninety school days, with such transfers being subject to hardship waiver guidelines.”
Other Transfers
Current NSAA Bylaws 2.7.8 through 2.7.8.3 state,
2.7.8 Transfer Exceptions. In addition to Enrollment Option students, an exception to NSAA Bylaws will be considered for transfer students who have transferred from one member high school to another member high school when there is not a change of domicile by the parents. This would apply to students who transfer: (1) from public school to private school; (2) from private school to public school; (3) from private school to private school; (4) from public school to public school; (5) from out-of-state schools, and (6) transfers from school to school within a multi-school district.
2.7.8.1 Those students who have their transfer papers signed and filed on or before March 15 shall be eligible immediately in the fall, providing the school into which the student transfers notifies the NSAA of the transfer by March 15. Once the transfer papers have been signed, filed and the NSAA has been notified, the student could complete that year of eligibility in the school the student was leaving. The student would, however, become ineligible for ninety (90) school days the next fall if the student were to change his/her mind and decided not to transfer. (Approved Ruling Clarification: Unless there is a bona fide change of domicile by the legal parent, a student may transfer only one time to a different school under the March 15 transfer deadline. A student who transfers under the March 15 transfer provisions and who later decides to return to his/her former district before 90 school days have elapsed shall continue to be ineligible in the former district for 90 school days, with the ineligibility period commencing at the start of the fall semester. This ineligibility shall continue, regardless of the parent’s domicile change within the resident district.)
2.7.8.2 Those students who do not have their transfer applications signed and filed on or before March 15, and whose transfer has not been reported to the NSAA in writing, postmarked no later than March 15, shall be ineligible for 90 school days, with such transfers being subject to hardship waiver guidelines.
2.7.8.3 Such transfer students may transfer under this rule one time during their high school years, unless there is a change of domicile by the legal parent. Such students who transfer a subsequent time without a change of domicile by the legal parent shall be ineligible for 90 school days.
