At the beginning of each school year, families receive the Parent Student Handbook which contains the Student Directory Information Release Form. The form gives families the opportunity to OPT OUT of releasing student directory information to any authorized individual, organization, or official by November of each school year. Households of juniors and seniors also receive a letter each October which gives them another opportunity to opt out of sharing student directory information with certain agencies by November. Once all forms are received, the forms are processed in December, and the new directory information file is created for the current school year in January. As a result, student information directory requests must wait until January to be fufilled.

Please contact the Division of School Operations for questions about the Parent Student Handbook.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) allows charging a reasonable fee to retrieve pupil records.

Each governing board approves student directory information from the statutory list of data. For LAUSD, student directory information includes school name, student name, address, and phone number. For non-military and non-postsecondary requesters (see Parent Student Handbook Information Release Form for list of authorized officials or organizations) student directory information includes student name, address, phone number, date of birth, current and most recent previous school(s), dates of attendance, and degrees, honors, and awards received.

Under federal and state Law, LAUSD can only disclose student directory information that was authorized by the Board of Education from the list of data that is designated as student directory information in statute.

( refer to "What is considered “Directory Information?" section above) Furthermore, according to state law, the definition for directory information is as follows (EC section 49061 (c)): “Directory information” means one or more of the following items: pupil’s name, address, telephone number, date of birth, email address, major field of study, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees and awards received, and the most recent previous public or private school attended by the pupil. " LAUSD is not authorized to provide information that is not included in the above list. Grade Level is NOT one of the items listed above or authorized by the LAUSD Board of Education.

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No. We are not authorized to release information for students who are no longer enrolled with us. In addition, we cannot use student directory opt-out status from the previous school year because the status resets at the start of the new school year. Families have through November to opt- out each school year.

No. We are not allowed to disclose the student's grade level because grade level not included in the student directory information categories under state law (Education Code section 49061).

No. We are not authorized to separate student directory information by grade level.

According to both the United States Code Title 20 (20 U.S.C) and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) :

Access to student recruiting information notwithstanding section 1232g(a)(5)(B) of this title and except as provided in paragraph (2), each local educational agency receiving assistance under this chapter shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings.

Grade level is not included in the U.S.C or the ESSA.