North Shore Schools Open Enrollment Information

Find information on open enrolling your child in the following districts: Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District, Fox Point-Bayside School District, Shorewood School District, Whitefish Bay School District, Nicolet High School District, Mequoon-Thiensvill

Looking to open enroll your child in a district other than the one in which you live? Find information on how many open enrollment seats are available for the 2013-14 school year in the Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District, Fox Point-Bayside School District, Shorewood School District, Whitefish Bay School District, Nicolet High School District, Mequoon-Thiensville School District, Glendale-River Hills School District, Port Washington-Saukville School District, Cedarburg School District, and Grafton School District. To apply for open enrollment, check out the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's public school open enrollment site and fill out the online application beginning Feb. 4 until April 30. Maple Dale-Indian Hill School: …

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Nicolet Faces 15% Cut in State Aid

The DPI released state funding numbers for the 2012-13 school year and Nicolet will take the largest cut. Fox Point-Bayside and Maple Dale-Indian Hill also face cuts, but less than one-fifth of what Nicolet will see.

Following the Wisconsin trend, Nicolet, Fox Point-Bayside and Maple Dale-Indian Hill School Districts are all going to see cuts in state funding for the 2012-13 school year. In a report released Monday, 64 percent of the Department of Public Instructions' school districts are facing cuts to state funding for the coming school year.  Nicolet High School District will take the deepest cut among local districts, at 15.1 percent, a drop of $243,210. Fox Point-Bayside and Maple Dale-Indian Hill School Districts will take less drastic cuts in state aid, at 3.11 and 0.85 percent respectively.  Patrick Gasper is a communications officer with the DPI and said there's a wide variety of reasons Nicolet was hit so much harder than the other two …

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Heard in the Hall

A Breakdown of Bayside Taxes

The levy has gone up 0.22 percent or $36,433.75.

The 2011 tax levy for all of the taxing jurisdictions in Bayside is $16,828,262.06, which represents an increase from 2010 of 0.22 percent, or $36,433.75. This includes the voter approved referendum for the Nicolet School District. The overall increase in the levy for the Nicolet School District for Bayside is $193,363.    As you know, Bayside has three separate taxing areas, based on school district and county: In total dollars, the property tax levy decreased in Bayside for the Fox Point-Bayside ($180,488) and Maple Dale-Indian Hill ($109,001) School Districts, MATC ($4,288), and the State of Wisconsin ($1,879). The property tax levy for the village remained the same. The tax levies for MMSD ($27,225), Nicolet School District ($193,363…

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