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With Cross-Site Enrollment, students can take a class at another school within their district (intradistrict) or at another Infinite Campus-using district within the same state (interdistrict). It gives students more options, while districts keep enrollment, grading, scheduling, and records aligned.

Below, Product Manager Eric Gordee shared the reasoning behind Cross-Site Enrollment, and the benefits districts are seeing. A North Carolina district also shared their experience using intradistrict enrollment to expand class access.

Why should modern SIS platforms support both interdistrict and intradistrict enrollment?

Most districts can’t afford to run every program or class offering that might be available. With intradistrict, it’s a great efficiency for office staff, parents, and students to streamline the communication between both schools, with clarity and transparency of grades and attendance going back and forth. Interdistrict provides the opportunity to have a coordination of services to support what a child needs, allowing them to remain a student of their home district while benefiting from instruction or career pathways offered by a neighboring district.

What problems does Cross-Site Enrollment solve for students and district scheduling teams?

Every district has students who move from middle school to high school because they need a higher-level math class or some type of specialized programming. The ease of communication and transparency is what it’s about – both schools knowing who the child is, what they need, and how they’re progressing and learning.

If a district has multiple high schools, they don’t have to duplicate programs, which can be very pricy, at each location. The tool enables a district to offer a class, let students enroll, and then attend physically or virtually. It reduces the dependency on running expensive or low-attended programs everywhere, and through cooperation or collaboration, it brings more freedom of choice to students.

How are districts using these offerings today?

Our tool is super flexible and allows people to do many different things to meet their needs. Some schools utilize Cross-Site Enrollment for day treatment programs and alternative learning centers, allowing the home school to remain the primary enrollment while keeping tabs on the students who live within their attendance boundary.

Other districts are using Cross-Site Enrollment for district-wide activity programs. For example, they may have a unified sports program and use Cross-Site Enrollment to roster students into activities. This keeps information in one place instead of requiring an activity director to log into multiple systems to manage those students.

The tool’s functionality is only limited by a district’s imagination. If you can think of it, there’s a way to tie things together.

Do you have any recommendations for initial setup?

Take the time to understand what the tool can do by reviewing the Knowledge Base and talking to people. Then, sit down with others in your district to talk through options: what you know it does and how you want to use it.

Once you have a plan, setup becomes easier and more manageable. You only need to do it at the district and building level once a year, so don’t be afraid to try it. You’re not going to break anything. Use your sandbox or staging environment to test things out.

How has intradistrict enrollment benefited your district community?

Intradistrict enrollment has positively benefited our schools by expanding equitable access to academic programs, specialized services, and learning pathways that may not be available within a student’s home school. It allows families to select educational environments that best align with student needs and interests. This has kept our students connected and engaged with post-secondary plans.

From an operational standpoint, Cross-Site Enrollment promotes more efficient use of district resources by balancing enrollment across schools and sustaining programs that might otherwise be underutilized. It also strengthens collaboration among schools, encourages the sharing of best practices, and helps with scheduling gaps that occur in smaller settings.

What advice would you give other districts just getting started with intradistrict enrollment?

Districts beginning intradistrict enrollment should start with clear policies and procedures that define eligibility, capacity limits, transportation considerations, and accountability across participating schools. Establishing shared expectations early helps ensure consistency, compliance, and transparency for both staff and families.