USD 373 enrolling for next year — and no online option is available The Kansan For Newton USD 373, enrollment for the 2021-22 school year opened on April 1, and next school year will look different that this one. Pandemic COVID-19 led to the shuttering of buildings in March of 2020, and when those building reopened for the fall semester of 2020-21 a significant number of students did not return to buildings. At the start of the 2020-21 school year, 23 percent of students were enrolled in the remote only option as the district opened school with a "flexible plan" for student attendance. Under the flexible plan, the board of education determined if students would be in school all day, every day; in school two or three days a week alternating with online only instruction; or if buildings would be closed to students.