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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IB is a lottery program, it is not a guaranteed option.  More details here: https://www.apsva.us/school-options/high-school-choices/how-to-apply/

This is the APS policy: https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/SBP-25-2.2-Options-and-Transfers.pdf[/quote]

IB is not by lottery at W-L. It is by application by current 8th graders for whom W-L is not their home HS. Not sure how it works if a student is already a high schooler elsewhere.[/quote]

For now, anyone who lives in boundary to W-L has the option to enroll in IB classes. If you live in either the Wakefield or Yortown zones and want to participate in IB, you must apply for a transfer to W-L as a Freshman, and if more students apply than there are spaces available, a lottery is held (my understanding that there has been a lottery for qualified students for at least five years, because the number of qualified applicants consistently exceeds available space). If you are an IB transfer student, you must take the required IB classes or they will send you back to your home school.

What is not yet clear is whether the IB program will be separated from W-L when the school is expanded, so that all students, regardless of their boundary, will have equal access to the IB program. Makes sense to me that a unique program should not be exclusive for some yet guaranteed to others based on where one lives. [/quote]

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