Apply & Enroll at Chisholm

Chisholm participates in the DCPS early childhood and out-of-boundary lottery system to allocate available preschool and Pre-Kindergarten spots as well as for out-of-boundary new students.

Apply to the MySchoolsDC lottery here: https://www.myschooldc.org/

Check your in-boundary school here: Find Your In-Boundary School

Preference for Early Childhood and Out-of-Boundary Lottery

1. Equitable Access

2. In-boundary with sibling attending

3. In-boundary with sibling offered

4. In-boundary

5. Out of boundary with sibling attending

6. Out of boundary with sibling offered

7. Proximity

All returning Chisholm students in all grades will receive a placement for the next academic year and need NOT apply through the lottery.

CES classroom seats are assigned through a separate process, via Location of Service (LOS) letters from DCPS Central Office- Office of Specialized Instruction.

Are you a returning students OR did you receive an offer through the My School DC Lottery? Enroll your child starting 3/27/26 for SY 26-27!

Enrollment for School Year 2026-2027

Login to the DCPS Parent Portal

https://aspen.dcps.dc.gov

Complete the DCPS enrollment packet online.

Provide proof of DC residency.

Every student (returning & new) needs to enroll each school year.

DCPS is now using the online Parent Portal for enrollment and re-enrollment!

This is the same portal for report cards and enrollment last year!

Need any help with re-enrollment?

Visit us at Chisholm and our team will be glad to help! Our school year office hours are 8-4:30 and our summer office hours are 9:00-2:00, Monday-Friday.

Learn more at https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/

Not sure if Chisholm is your in-boundary school? Check DCPS in-boundary schools here.

Full-time (self-contained) special education seats are assigned via DC Public Schools. CES classrooms are not part of the bilingual-arts learning model & are taught in English.

Chisholm has three special education Communication and Education Support classrooms (CES). CES classroom seats are assigned through a separate process, via Location of Service (LOS) letters from DCPS Central Office- Office of Specialized Instruction. If you are unsure of your student's LOS for an upcoming school year, please contact your student's current school.

A feeder-pattern school is a school that a student has the right to attend based on completion of the terminal grade of a student’s current school. This assignment only happens during the years a student moves from elementary to middle school, or from middle school to high school, or from an education campus to high school.

Geographic Feeder Pattern schools are grouped by school boundary and proximity. Geographic feeder pattern rights extend to students who enrolled in a school through a formal placement as well as to those who enrolled out-of-boundary through the My School DC lottery. Geographic feeder pattern rights do not extend to students who enroll as in-boundary students and then move out of the boundary, or to out-of-boundary students who withdraw. Find your in-boundary school here: https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/node/41

Our feeder pattern includes two wonderful DCPS schools, Jefferson Middle School Academy & Eastern High School.

Learn more:

Jefferson Middle School Academy

Eastern High School