Entering Freshman, Transfer and Participation Limitations

STUDENTS ENTERING HIGH SCHOOL AS FRESHMEN IN 2004-2005
Your eligibility is dependent on the location of the residence where you live full time with your parents or court appointed legal guardian. If you do not reside with both of your biological parents,your eligibility may be subject to special provisions. Check with your principal to be sure you are eligible before you participate.

1. You attend the public high school in the district in which you live full time with both of your parents; or
2. You have paid tuition to attend a public school for a minimum of 7th and 8th grades in a district other than the one where you live with your parents, and you continue to pay tuition as a high school student in that same district; or
3. You attend a private/parochial school located within the boundaries of the public school district where you live with your parents or court appointed legal guardian; or
4. You attend a private/parochial high school and have attended a private/parochial school for 7th and 8th grades, or for any four (4) grades from kindergarten through eighth grades; or
5. You attend the private/parochial high school which one or both of your birth parents attended or where one of your parents' current spouse attended; or
6. You attend a private/parochial high school located within a thirty (30) mile radius of the residence where you live with your parents.

TRANSFER

1. In all transfer cases, both the principal of the school from which you transfer and the principal of the school into which you transfer must approve the transfer in writing on a form provided by the IHSA Office. You are not eligible when you transfer until this form is fully executed and on file in the school office.
2. If you transfer after classes begin for the current school year, you will be ineligible for thirty days from the date you start attending classes at the new high school. In addition, you will be ineligible for that entire school year in any sport in which you participated or were participating at the school from which you transferred. For example, if you were out for cross country at the school from which you transfer and transfer after classes have started for the school year, you will be ineligible for cross country that entire school year at the new school.
3. If you transfer attendance from one high school to another high school, you will be ineligible unless
   1. Your transfer is in conjunction with a change in residence by you and your parents, custodial parent or court appointed guardian from one public school district to a different public school district.
   2. Your transfer is between high schools within a public school district and both you and your parents, custodial parent or court appointed guardian change residence to the district attendance area for the school to which you transfer.
   3. Your transfer is from a private/parochial school to your home public high school, you are entering a public high school for the first time, and the principals of both your former and then new school approve your transfer.
   4. Your transfer is from one private/parochial school to another private/parochial school located within a thirty (30) mile radius of the residence where you live with your parents, custodial parent or court appointed guardian, you are changing high schools for the first time, and the principals of both your former and the new school approve your transfer.
   5. Your parents are divorced or legally separated, you transfer to a new school in conjunction with a modification or other change in legal custody between your parents by action of a judge and required court documents are on file at the school into which you transfer.
4. If you transfer attendance from one school to another while you are ineligible for any season, the period of ineligibility imposed prior to your transfer will be enforced at the school to which you transfer, even if you are otherwise in compliance with the by-laws.
5. Any questions about your eligibility in any of these instances must be resolved by a formal ruling from the IHSA Executive Director.
6. In all other transfer situations, a ruling by the IHSA Executive Director is necessary to determine your eligibility. This ruling must be obtained in writing by the principal of the school into which you transfer before you participate in an interscholastic athletic contest.

PARTICIPATION LIMITATIONS

1. After you enroll in ninth (9th) grade, you may be eligible for no more than the first eight (8) semesters you attend school. If you attend school for ten (10) or more days in a semester, that counts as a semester of attendance.You are not guaranteed eight (8) semesters of eligibility; but that is the maximum number of semesters of high school attendance during which you may have eligibility.
2. Your 7th and 8th semesters of high school attendance must be consecutive.
3. After you enroll in ninth (9th) grade, you may be eligible for no more than four (4) years of competition in any sport. You are not . guaranteed four (4) years of competition, but that is the maximum . amount of competition you may have.

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