Choice Assignment Plan Facts
The new student assignment plan puts parents, not the school system, in charge of choosing the school their child will attend. The plan provides families access to quality schools based on achievement, proximity, stability and choice.
Key Points
- If a family is happy with the school they are in, they can stay and keep their current transportation. There will be no mandatory reassignments.
- Families who have a child moving from elementary to middle or middle to high can stay within the newly approved feeder pattern of their child's existing school.
- Each school will be part of a defined feeder pattern that will provide students with a predictable, stable path through 12th grade.
- The magnet program will not change. All current magnet schools and programs will continue.
Who Participates?
- All families with rising kindergarteners
- All families new to the school system
- Existing families who want a change in school assignment
- Families who have a child moving from elementary to middle or middle to high that would like to choose a different school from their list rather than stay within the newly approved feeder pattern of their child's school.
The Choice Student Assignment Process
- Families will be provided a choice list based on their address that will have at least five of their most proximate elementary schools - including a minimum of two traditional options and two year-round options - and their associated middle and high schools.
- Families who participate in the choice process will rank the schools from their choice list.
- During the choice process, families will see their list of school choices, aligned feeder patterns, distance of each school from their home, number of seats available by grade level, and the number of seats requested by others.
- If there are more applicants for a school than there are seats, then selection priorities will be used with the highest priorities being given to incoming siblings of current WCPSS students and proximity.
For More Information
- Website: assignment.wcpss.net
- Phone: 919-431-7400
- Email: studentassignment@wcpss.net
Note, above information was copied directly from WCPSS wedsite for informational purposes. I did not want to confuse the matter any more than it is by trying to re-write the facts.
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