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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are moving to a home zoned for South Lakes HS, and the next closest school is Madison. Do I understand it correctly that we have the option to send our child to Madison instead of South Lakes because we would prefer AP curriculum to IB? This seems too easy..[/quote]

It works as long as Madison is accepting transfers for all four years as the transfer is only for one year at a time.  [b]If Madison is closed transfers, your student would go to the next closest AP HS that is open to transfers.[/b]  [/quote]

This bolded part hardly ever occurs. The principal makes the decision.  Oftentimes schools listed as closed to transfers on Dashboard do accommodate high school curricular transfer requests just the same. Principals (and school registrars) do look at closest distance to one's home, though.[/quote]

Guess what, my understanding from my friends who go there is that Madison is overcapacity and is closed to transfers right now.  In past years it's been fairly easy to people place from Marshall and vice versa, but this year, a friend went to get her kid in there and was told that.  All the schools are becoming a lot tighter about admissions since people often people place for reasons that have little to do with AP v. IB.  So I'd check it out before you assume your child would be able to transfer.  [/quote]

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