In order to support Public School Units (PSUs) with properly placing and supporting out-of-NC-public-school transfer students in NC Public Schools, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction developed the NCDPI Out-of-NC-Public-School Transfers Document to provide clarity and guidance for out-of-NC-public-school transfer students as they relate to the following areas:

Transcripts
GPAs & Grade Scale
Academic Placement
Credit by Demonstrated Mastery (CDM)
Testing
Cohort Graduation Rate

NCDPI Out-of-NC-Public-School Transfers Document

Of Note for High School ML Student Enrollment:

The State Partners for Multilingual Learners (SPML) Leadership Committee created a document entitled Questions for Newcomers Out-of-NC-Public-School Transfer.

Cumberland County Schools (CCS) hosted a Roundtable to share their collaborative work. Please note that HS enrollment, transfer credits, oral transcripts, etc. are based on local policy and decision-making. This is an example of how it works in Cumberland County Schools. PSUs must follow their local policy.

Slides from Roundtable (owned by CCS)

Clip from Roundtable

Newcomers: Foreign-born students and their families who have recently arrived in the U.S.

Refugees: A refugee is any person who is outside the country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside the country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.

Unaccompanied Minors: A student is considered an unaccompanied minor when the student has no lawful immigration status in the US, has not attained 18 years of age, and no parent or legal guardian in the US (or no parent or legal guardian in the US available to provide care and physical custody).

SIFE/SLIFE Students - Students with interrupted formal education/Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education

In the U.S. less than two years
Literacy and language proficiency is not English-dominant
Limited language and content literacy in their primary language

Backgrounds could include:

Poor quality education system
Families/students choose work instead of school
Interrupted formal education due to political, religious, or economic issues, including war-torn areas and natural disasters