1. Parent(s) seeking a transfer should fill out the Google form application. The Transfer Request Application forms are due on or before July 15th of the school year prior to the one for which the transfer is requested.
2. In completing these forms, the parent(s) should be certain to fill out all sections of the form and to state specifically each of the reasons for the request to transfer.
3. Pursuant to I.C. 20-26-11-32, Borden-Henryville School Corporation (BHSC) will grant transfers to students who currently attend BHSC as transfer students, students who are children of BHSC employees, or students who are members of a household in which any other member of the household is a student of BHSC. The School Board will limit the number of new transfers to a school building or grade level. If the number of requests to transfer exceeds the capacity established, the School Board will hold a random drawing at a public meeting to determine which students will be admitted as transfer students to each school building and each grade level.
Definitions, Terms, and Conditions
1. “Legal settlement” of a student refers to the student’s status with respect to the public-school corporation, which has the responsibility to permit the student to attend its local public schools without the payment of tuition. I.C. 20-18-2-11. “Legal settlement,” in most cases, is determined by where the student’s parent lives. I.C. 20-26- 11-2.
2. I.C. 20-26-11-32 permits a transfer from the school corporation of legal settlement (the “Transferor School Corporation”) to another public-school corporation (the “Transferee School Corporation).
3. “Transfer” refers to transfers between Indiana public school corporations. It does not refer to transfers from one school building in a school corporation to another school building within the same school corporation. A public-school corporation means any public-school corporation established under law by the State of Indiana. A school corporation may be known as a School City, School Town, School Township, Consolidated School Corporation, Metropolitan School District, Township School Corporation, County School Corporation, United School Corporation, School District, or Community School Corporation, although other names may also be used. I.C. 20-18-2-16.
4. If a transfer application is granted, the parent is responsible for the transportation of the student to the Transferee School Corporation. BHSC will NOT provide transportation.
Questions regarding these instructions may be directed to the BHSC Superintendent at (812) 913-9630.
DISCLAIMER:
Transfer requests may be denied or terminated immediately if a student has been suspended or expelled during the twelve (12) months preceding the student’s request to transfer, if the student was suspended or expelled:
A. for ten (10) or more school days.
B. for a violation of I.C. 20-33-8-16 involving firearms, destructive devices, or weapons.
C. for causing physical injury to a student, school employee, or a visitor to the school.
D. for a violation of a school corporation’s drug or alcohol rules.
If a transfer has been approved and then the student's discipline record results in any of the above, transfer approval may be terminated immediately, resulting in the student not being allowed to return to BHSC. The parent of the student requesting transfer shall inform BHSC immediately if the student applying for transfer, or after being granted transfer, has been suspended or expelled during the previous twelve (12) months for one of the offenses listed above.