transfers in PG County

[Anonymous]

Online I read that PG county schools have certain schools that will allow transfers. Has anyone had any experience with transfers for your child? Are you request usually denied or accepted? Is the process lengthy?

[Anonymous]

Mostly it depends. Schools only accept transfers if they have openings or are under enrolled (which is normally the not great schools, although some okay through glitches of their districting). I think you can sometimes get a transfer due to having a babysitter in a given neighborhood, but I think that's harder than it used to be.

[Anonymous]

There is usually a list that they post in the spring that shows schools with availability for possible transfers. The application is a quick one pager. I applied for a transfer on the list and was still denied.

[Anonymous]

Does the board or principal deny the parent? Does anyone know? I would like ato transfer since after care opens at seven and i have to be to work 7:45 i need a school close to my job. Is this a reason to request a transfer?

[Anonymous]

My husband and I transfered our daughter. My neighborhood school was not impressive. We were denied twice. Once by the transfer office, once by the appeals office. We went to the school board and appealed. It went through but was stressful. I will say that if you want your child to transfer, you have to be his/her advocate.

[Anonymous]

That is shocking, If there are seats available I do not see the problem in a transfer. I understand they do not want students to transfer just because. However, I feel if the seat is available, you meet with the principal for maybe an interview it should be approved.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't shock me that much. Transfers are supposed to depend on whether or not there is space in specific grades. Maybe there wasn't space in that grade, but the school was on the transfer list because of space overall. There are other reasons potentially.

[Anonymous]

my successful transfer friends got approval directly from the principal at the new school. One was childcare and one was wanting to take a class only offered at a certain high school. Those were both in the past few years.

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing that the PP who got denied at first was trying to transfer from a not great school to a better, more coveted school.

I think that the reason they probably resist that is because then everyone would try to transfer into the high-performing schools.

[Anonymous]

I think they may just initially deny pretty much everyone. I know a teacher who got denied initially for a transfer to her child to her school which was on the list of schools with openings and was not full in her child's grade (same grade as my child). And she was taking that child out of a more coveted Bowie school. The transfer went through but it had to be appealed.