From:	DPI Open Enrollment
Sent:	Tuesday, August 11, 2020 10:54 AM
To:	Demrow, Jennifer   DPI
Subject:	Pupils Not Attending/Withdrawals Before 3rd Friday

To – District Administrators and Open Enrollment Coordinators

From – Jen Demrow, Open Enrollment Consultant

Subject –Pupils Not Attending/Withdrawals Before 3rd Friday 

We are getting many questions related to open enrolled students who are not attending a 
nonresident district for various reasons and how to indicate their status in OPAL. 

For pupils who withdrew on or before the 3rd Friday Count date, you need to go into the 
Change Enrollment tab or the 3rd Friday in Sept tab and enter the pupil’s 3rd Friday status as 
“no”. Do not try and withdraw the pupil for 0 days or 1 day; you cannot withdraw a pupil who 
was never open enrolled in the current school year. You will get an error message if you try to 
do this. 

Once you mark the pupil as “not open enrolled”, the pupil’s name will not be added to your 
Actively Open Enrolled tab, but they will remain on your All Students tab.

As a reminder, the All Students tab is a non-reporting tab which includes any students who 
could possibly be considered open enrolled for the 2020-21 school year. Students are not 
considered open enrolled for the school year and brought over to the reporting Actively Open 
Enrolled tab until they are marked as open enrolled through the 3rd Friday in Sept tab or 
through the Change Enrollment tab (for alternative application students).

We will be sending out a detailed list serv notice about the 3rd Friday Count and open 
enrollment in mid-September. 

If you have any questions, please contact us at openenrollment@dpi.wi.gov or call us at 888-
245-2732, option 2.   

Jen Demrow
School Administration Consultant
Public School Open Enrollment
Department of Public Instruction
608-264-6707
Jennifer.Demrow@dpi.wi.gov 

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