Cincinnati Public Schools to offer special enrollment amid recent charter school closure

Many students astatine Dohn Community High School were already facing their past accidental to gain a diploma. Then, the schoolhouse for at-risk students abruptly closed.

Now, Cincinnati Public Schools is offering them a lifeline.

Just a time aft the Cincinnati charter schoolhouse announced its abrupt closure, Cincinnati Public Schools said successful a merchandise it volition judge students and families seeking a "new world home."

Ohio's second-largest district, besides known arsenic CPS, volition connection peculiar enrollment hours connected Sunday, starting astatine noon. Prospective students volition conscionable astatine the CPS Education Center astatine 2651 Burnet Ave. successful Corryville.

Dohn Community High School volition adjacent its doors Monday owed to "insurmountable fiscal challenges stemming from the erstwhile schoolhouse year," the committee of directors said successful a statement.

Dohn Community High School mostly serves students who person behavioral problems, were expelled from different nationalist schools oregon are different connected their past accidental to get a precocious schoolhouse diploma.

Some Dohn students were antecedently expelled from Cincinnati schools. When asked if these students tin beryllium re-enrolled successful the district, a territory spokesperson told The Enquirer, "Expulsion is not forever."

“Every pupil belongs astatine Cincinnati Public Schools,” Superintendent Shauna Murphy said. “No substance wherever you’re coming from oregon what you’ve experienced, you person a location here. We are always, ever present for kids.”

How enrollment volition enactment for caller students

Any eligible pupil tin enroll during the peculiar enrollment period, but CPS' announcement is successful effect to the closure of Dohn.

"We privation to enactment the students of Dohn," Murphy said.

The territory does not person a acceptable ending clip for the enrollment hours Sunday. CPS representatives volition beryllium astatine the acquisition halfway Monday astatine 8 a.m. for those who cannot marque it Sunday. Families tin besides enroll students online astatine the registration portal.

Students tin be astir immoderate precocious schoolhouse successful the district. Exceptions see Walnut Hills High School and Spencer Center for Gifted and Exceptional Students, which person entranceway exams, and the School of Creative and Performing Arts, which requires an audition for admission.

However, CPS students bash not person to be a precocious schoolhouse based connected their location address. CPS representatives volition inquire prospective students wherever they unrecorded and which programs they're funny successful to assistance them determine which schoolhouse is champion for them, Murphy said.

Students volition beryllium placed successful grades based connected their transcript and the fig of credits they've taken.

How volition enrollment impact existent students?

CPS presently serves 35,000 children successful pre-K to 12th people crossed 66 schools, according to the district's website. It is unclear if an influx of caller students volition impact CPS schools.

The precocious schools are "more crowded" than the simple schools, Murphy said. However, CPS plans to restructure adjacent year, which volition relieve immoderate unit from the precocious schools, she added.

Dohn Community High School presently serves 1,600 students. But determination is nary warrant each of the students volition transfer.

"If we person 1 that we tin serve, that’s what we volition do," Murphy said. “My extremity is to fto young radical cognize we’re present if they request us.”

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincinnati Public Schools opens enrollment aft Dohn schoolhouse closes