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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the information:

http://www.fcps.edu/dss/osp/StudentRegistration/student-transfer/

I believe that parents of students currently in 8th grade seeking to transfer their kids to an out-of-boundary AP school would typically need to apply by April 2013.
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09:40 here - thanks for posting this information.

Since the new transfer deadline is April 15, is it possible that the "Capacity Dashboard" information is not updated until after the deadline?[/quote]

Yes, that's possible - if you look, the last update was on April 26th, 2012, after the April 15th deadline for transfers in the fall of 2012.

The main point I was trying to make was not to assume a school won't accept transfers from IB to AP, or vice versa, based on the Capacity Dashboard information, particularly when it doesn't even reflect the current school year.  You can always give it a shot and see what happens.

I don't have a lot of direct experience with this - all I know is that (1) in Vienna, the administrators at Madison and Marshall are very cooperative; and (2) after the 2008 South Lakes redistricting, I seem to recall that some parents who wanted to transfer out of South Lakes back to the AP schools to which their neighborhoods previously had been assigned got angry at Bruce Butler, who was then the principal at South Lakes, because he would only approve transfer requests to the AP schools closest to their homes (which were not always the same schools as the schools to which they'd previously been assigned).  He may have been following the FCPS policy, but they viewed him as trying to keep their kids out of the schools they knew. [/quote]

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