Tinsley Voluntary Transfer Program

Tinsley Volunteer Transfer Program

In 1976, a group of parents filed a lawsuit, which contended that elementary students in the south county school districts were denied an equal educational opportunity because of the isolation of racial minorities in the Ravenswood City School District. The lawsuit was settled in 1986, when the school districts entered a Settlement Order designed to reduce racial isolation.

One component of the Settlement Order is the Voluntary Transfer Plan, which allows minority students in the Ravenswood City School District to transfer to one of the following six school districts: Las Lomitas, Menlo Park City, Palo Alto Unified, Portola Valley, San Carlos, and Woodside. Non-minority students in these six districts may transfer into the Ravenswood City School District. Redwood City and Belmont-Redwood Shores were originally part of the order, but reached a high enough minority ratio that they no longer have to enroll students under the settlement. Please visit the program website for information.