Open enrollment is not being allowed for the 2024-2025 school year at Sierra High unless a family currently has a sibling enrolled at the campus.

That’s the big change as Manteca Unified prepares to launch its open enrollment period on Jan 16.

Open enrollment is done on a first come, first served basis.

The decision not to allow open enrollment at Sierra High next year reflects the fact there are now five active housing developments being built in its attendance area within southwest Manteca.

The school board last month took some pressure off the Sierra High campus by shifting the 760-home Villa Ticino West neighborhood now under construction on the southwest corner of Louise Avenue and Airport Way to the East Union High attendance area.

The district also shifted the Mayors Park neighborhood on the southwest corner of Louise  Avenue and Union Road to within East Union’s attendance boundary starting in August.

Students currently attending Sierra High from Mayors Park can continue to do so.

If someone from the Mayors Park neighborhood is an incoming freshman and has a sibling now attending Sierra they may apply via open enrollment to do so is the one exception being allowed for the ban — at least for next school year — on open enrollment at Sierra High.

Details — and enrollment forms — for open enrollment as well as transitional kindergarten and kindergarten for the 2024-2025 school plus the district’s online academy are on the district’s website at musd.net.

You will find the “register” button on the righthand side of the home page.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com