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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]

It's really not about the administration being cooperative. If the schools are closed at the time, they are closed. The county will reject the application before it even gets to the administration. Marshall was open a couple years ago, but the program has grown in popularity. There is a chance they may have additional capacity after the renovation is complete. [/quote]

Sorry if I wasn't clear - by "cooperative" I didn't mean that the administrators were somehow bending the rules, but only that transfers appeared to be widely available and that the administrators cooperated with requests.

Last year, Marshall had 155 transfers into the school and 109 transfers out.  Did out-of-boundary students who wanted to participate in the IB program this school year get turned away?  If so, that would be a big turnaround for the school.  Its current stated capacity of 1,511 students is as low as it is because the school was under-enrolled for a long time, which led the county to put in Academy programs at Marshall years ago that are space-intensive and reduce the program capacity.    [/quote]

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