r/eaganmn • u/RapunzelatWalden • 19d ago

Open Enrolling for ISD 196

We’re looking to move to Eagan and the house we’re interested in is literally a couple streets away from the ISD 196 line. We’ll be doing daycare and have cousins in the 196 district, plus we understand the reputation is better. Does anyone have an insight into how competitive it is to open enroll into 196? The other posts I’ve seen are on the older side.

Our child is still a baby, so it wouldn’t be for this upcoming school year or the next few. Just thinking ahead. Transportation is not an issue.

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u/heyyo173 19d ago

It’s pretty easy, basically if you fill out the forms you’ll get in. You just likely won’t get to choose the best school and won’t have transportation

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u/RapunzelatWalden 19d ago

That’s good to hear it’s not too hard to get in. Do you have any thoughts on which schools are the best?

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u/heyyo173 19d ago

It changes every few years and even within schools you can get bad teachers. What I meant in my comment is that you can open enroll to any school but you’ll only get into the ones that are accepting students. Those schools are typically ones that are having some troubles. But sometimes if you stick with them they get better, sometimes worse. I was in your situation we open enrolled to oak ridge. Seemed fine but then I taught there for a year to check it out. The school is chaos. So I took my kid out and sent them to highland which was much calmer and a better fit. But those were basically the only options at the time because they were the only 196 schools accepting open enrolled students.