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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Westfield and Oakton are currently closed to transfers. Madison is currently open.[/quote]

I wouldn't make assumptions, though, about which schools will accept transfers for the fall of 2013 based on the information from the spring of 2012 that's currently shown on the "Capacity Dashboard."  Those numbers change every year.

Have people actually had experiences where students applied for a transfer from an IB to an AP school by the regular deadline in April, and were not allowed to attend the AP school that was closest to them because that school was deemed closed to transfers?   I know that, over in Vienna, it's usually been easy to arrange for a transfer from Marshall to Madison, or vice versa, but those schools haven't been as crowded as some of the schools further west.

By some measures, South Lakes is going to be the most over-crowded high school in the county in a few years, if it isn't already, so FCPS ought to welcome the transfers.  [People who lived in the Westfield district told the School Board a few years ago when FCPS decided to redistrict part of Westfield to South Lakes that this was going to happen, but Stuart Gibson and his colleagues on the School Board were not interested in listening.] [/quote]

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