HShockeywatcher wrote:That does answer the question (as far as I understand it).
If you go to St Thomas and live in Farmington (for example) and want to play at Holy Angels the following year, you'd have to move to Richfield.
The question I have: is there any way for a student to move to/from schools in the same public school district without sitting out a year?
From the MSHSL:
B. Family Residence Change: the student transfers from one public school district attendance area to another public school district attendance area at any time during the calendar year in which there is a change of residence and occupancy in Minnesota by the student’s parents. If the student’s parents move from one public school district attendance area to another public school district attendance area, the student will be eligible in the new public school attendance area or a non-public school if the student transfers at the same time the student’s parents move.
If the parents move from one public school district attendance area to another, the student shall continue to be fully eligible if the student continues enrollment in the prior school for the balance of the current marking period or for the balance of the academic school year. If the student elects either of the current enrollment options above, the student will be fully eligible upon transfer to the new school.
A student who elects not to transfer upon a parent’s change in residence shall continue to be eligible at the school in which the student is currently enrolled.
Source:
http://www.mshsl.org/mshsl/news/eligquestions.htm
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My understanding of this is that anyone is eligible to play, public or private, so long as they move from one "public attendance area" to another. Private schools adopt the "attendance areas" of the public school district in which they are located.
So as to the first scenario, as long as the player moves out of Farmington, he is eligible to play at Holy Angels. Doesn't matter where he goes.
As for the second question, the answer is yes, so long as it's a different "attendance area" within the school district. That is, if a player were to move from the east side of Duluth to the west side, he'd be eligible at Denfeld, even though Denfeld is in the same school district. Attendance areas are what matter, not school districts.