Transfer Students

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In PowerSchool, you have different options concerning transfers into and out of your school. You can transfer a student out of school, transfer a student to or enroll a student in another school on your PowerSchool server, or reenroll a student who was previously enrolled in your school.

Transfer a Student Out of School

Use this function to transfer an individual student out of your school.

1. Navigate to the Transfer Out of School page. 

2. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   Who will be transferred out	The names of the selected students appear.
   Transfer Comment	Enter any comments related to the transfer.
   Date of transfer	Enter the date of the transfer. When transferring a student out of school who has any attendance records on or after the date of transfer, a message appears stating "There are [number] attendance record(s) for the current student. Listed below are the number of records per date." The transfer is prevented until the future attendance records are deleted. To delete the future attendance records, select the Check to delete all future attendance records this student has listed above checkbox. The Check to delete all future attendance records this student has listed above checkbox only appears for users who have access to enter attendance.
   Exit code	Choose the exit code from the menu.
   Check here if students intend to enroll in school during next school year.	Select the checkbox if the student plans to return to the same school during the next school year. Deselect the checkbox to clear all scheduling-related information for the following year, including course requests, for the selected students.
   Also Transfer out of selected programs	If the student is currently enrolled in any special programs, these programs appear. Select those which the student should be withdrawn from when they are transferred.

3. Click Submit.

4. Click Confirm Submit. 
   The student's enrollment status will appear as Transfer Out Pending until the date of transfer.

   

   The student's status is now inactive. From now on, when you want to open the student record, you must enter a forward slash (/) before the student's last name when entering it in the Student Search field.

   
   If you know that the student is transferring to another school that shares your PowerSchool system, you must also transfer the records to that school before the student can be enrolled there. For more information, refer to Reenroll Students.

Transfer a Group of Students Out of School

Use this function to transfer a group of student out of your school. It is especially useful when a family moves and you want to transfer all siblings at once.

1. Navigate to the Transfer Out of School page. 
2. Edit the information as needed. For field descriptions, see Transfer a Student Out of School.

3. Click Submit. 

   

   The student's status is now inactive. From now on, when you want to open the student records, you must enter a forward slash (/) before the students' last name when entering it in the Student Search field.

   
   If you know that the group is transferring to another school that shares your PowerSchool system, you must also transfer the records to that school before the students can be enrolled there. For more information, refer to Reenroll Students.