The following summarizes Stoughton Area School District’s (SASD) educational options for children who reside in the District pursuant to section 118.57 of the state statute. The District’s primary education path and instructional program for students involves progression from 4-year-old kindergarten through Grade 12, leading to a high school diploma.
Some of the specific education programs offered to eligible students who are enrolled in and attending SASD include the following:
- Early childhood special education (for students who are at least 3-years old, but not yet school age)
- Special Education for students with disabilities
- English language learner education for students for whom English is not their primary language
- Gifted and Talented education known as Journeys
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs at both the middle and high school
- Summer School programming, Summer Excel
- Online courses
The District’s school and each school’s most recent state-assigned performance category (2018-19) show that Fox Prairie Elementary School (Grades K-5) Exceeds Expectations, Kegonsa Elementary School (Grades K-5) Meets Expectations, Sandhill Elementary School (Grades K-5) Exceeds Expectations, River Bluff Middle School (Grades 6-8) Meets Expectations, and Stoughton High School (Grades 9-12) Exceeds Expectations.
Educational options for students who are enrolled in the Stoughton Area School District that involve part-time attendance at an educational institution other than a school of the Stoughton Area School District include the following:
Early College Credit Program (ECCP)
- Provides opportunities to apply for approval to take up to a total of 18 college credit courses at an Institution of Higher Education and is available to students in grades 9-12
- is subject to state and local eligibility requirements, including the limitation that the courses must satisfy a high school graduation requirement; and
- includes certain District-approved dual credit opportunities that the District offers in conjunction with a partner institution of higher education.
- See policy 723 Early College Credit Program
Start Technical College, which
- High school students in good academic standing and who have no record of significant disciplinary problems, as determined by the School District, may have the opportunity to take college courses at a local technical college.
- See policy 725 Start Technical College Now
Additional educational options for children who reside in the District that involve full-time enrollment/attendance at a school, program, or other educational institution that is not a school or instrumentality of the Stoughton Area School District include:
- Technical college: High school students meeting certain age and other eligibility requirements may be permitted to attend a technical college or certain other programs for the purpose of completing a program leading to the student’s high school graduation or to a high school equivalency diploma
- Full-time Open Enrollment involving physical attendance in a public school of a nonresident district or attendance through a virtual charter school that is associated with a nonresident school district
- Private school for students with a disability. Beginning in 2016-17, a child with a disability who meets the program’s specific eligibility requirements may apply to attend an eligible, participating private school under a scholarship awarded through the state’s “Special Needs Scholarship Program,” as established under section 115.7915 of the state statutes
- Enrollment in a private school of the family’s choosing, at the family’s own cost
- Private school participating in a parental choice program
- Enrollment in a home-based private educational program as provided under state law
Educational options for children who reside in the Stoughton Area School District but who are enrolled in and attending a private school or home-based private educational program include the following:
- Private school students in the high school grades have the opportunity to apply for approval to take up to two courses per semester in a District school, pursuant to section 118.145(4) of the state statutes
- Students who are enrolled in a home-based private education program have the opportunity to:
- Apply for approval to take up to two courses per semester in public schools as provided under section 118.53 of the state statutes
- Participate in district interscholastic athletics (with the guidelines of the WIAA for eligibility) and extracurricular activities as provided under section 118.133 of the state statutes
For more information about any of the education options listed in this notice, please contact the SASD Director of Instruction, SASD District Administrator, or the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction http://dpi.wi.gov/ed-options.
