Iowa Department of Education

Answer:
In most cases, a high school student who open enrolls is ineligible for interscholastic athletic competition during the student’s first 90 consecutive school days of enrollment in the receiving district. Some, but not all, exceptions to this general rule of ineligibility are as follows: 1. The sport in question is not offered by the sending district. 2. The sending district was dissolved and merged with one or more other districts. 3. The sending district wholegrade shares with another district for the student’s grade level. 4. Before making the open enrollment request, the student has attended the receiving district for at least one year either by paying tuition or under a sharing agreement. 5. The student is a ninth grader. Iowa Code subsection 282.18(13); 281 IAC subrule 17.8(2).