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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do they actually check zone/verify the residency provided on the applications???

I am in a zone that is Key/ASF--[b]only a very small # of students actually live in the Key zone. Many of the 5th graders at ASF reside in the Jamestown zone, Taylor and many lottery from other school zones[/b].  Given the VERY large waitlist # we were given on waitlist (and knowing the small key zone portion)--it doesn't add up.  There aren't even this many kids living in the actual zone.[/quote]

Simply not true. The 2015-2016 transfer report, the most recent published by APS, states that out of the 632 students who attended ASFS, 474 were from the Key zone, 144 were transfers from Taylor and Jamestown (the team schools whose students may enter a lottery to attend ASFS) and 14 were able to transfer into ASFS for other reasons.  The report also shows that 282 of the students who attended Key live in the Key zone.  That means in 2015-2016, more than 756 students of elementary school age lived in the Key zone when you take into account those who attend private school.

The same report shows that of the 89 fourth graders at ASFS  last year, so presumably now fifth graders and eligible for this year's HB lottery, 68 were from the Key zone.

And since it is growing increasingly difficult for a Taylor or Jamestown student to attend ASFS, more and more ASFS fifth graders entering the HB lottery will be from the Key zone.[/quote]

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