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RESIDENCY FOR SCHOOL ENTRANCE/ATTENDANCE

Maine School Administrative District No. 71 provides free public education to the students who are residents of the Towns of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport.

A student is considered a resident of the District if:

(1) The student’s parent with legal custody is a resident of the district; or

(2) The student is 18 years of age or over and otherwise emancipated and resides in the district; or

(3) The student is an emancipated minor and resides in the district; or

(4) The student’s court appointed legal guardian with legal custody is a resident of the district, and the legal guardian can demonstrate that the guardianship was obtained for necessary reasons regarding the student not just for education purposes; or

(5) The student resides in the district with someone other than his parent or guardian with legal custody and the Superintendent (or Commissioner) has made the determinations provided in 20-A M.R.S.A. Subsection 5205(2); or

(6) The student is a ward of the state and has been placed in the district as provided by 20-A M.R.S.A. Subsection 5205(1).

(7) The student is a homeless student, eligible to attend elementary or secondary school, pursuant to 20-A M.R.S.A. section 5201, chapter 014.

Residence means bona fide residence. A bona fide residence is one’s actual residence maintained in good faith and does not include a temporary or superficial residence established for the purpose of free school attendance in Maine School Administrative District No. 71. Factors to be considered in determining residency include where one regularly sleeps, eats, votes, pays taxes, owns property, registers vehicles, keeps furniture and belongings, etc.

Non-resident students are accepted only in vocational programs as provided by Maine law; in special programs approve by the Board; when transfer has been approved by Superintendents under 20-A M.R.S.A. Subsection 502(6); or as otherwise required by Maine law.

The Superintendent shall provide the Board with a yearly report on the students affected by this policy.

Amended: 4/12/93

Reviewed: 12/8/97