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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if you transfer for Japanese at Langley HS for 9th grade, you are ineligible by default and have to make an appeal to join Debate or Football, etc. I suppose winning appeals is not guaranteed.

If you apply and are accepted to TJ, since that is a governors school, you do not have to make an appeal to play VHSL sports. You just play for TJ automatically  [/quote]

In reading the VHSL rules, I think this provision governs regarding an academic transfer

28A-7-2 Transfer Rules Exceptions:
 5 Note (A): A student entering 9th grade for the first time after being approved to enter an academy or specialty program becomes immediately eligible in the high school provide the academy or specialty program.

So, a transfer based on academics IB to AP, admittance to TJ, should fall under this exception as long as it's done before entering 9th grade. [/quote]

28A-7-2(5) per the 2024-2025 handbook
(5) A student entering the eighth grade for the first time becomes immediately eligible in the high school in which he/she enrolls regardless of his or her residence status. A student entering the ninth grade for the first time becomes immediately eligible in the high school in which he/she enrolls regardless of his or her residence status.

28A-7-2(5) per the 2025-2026 handbook
A student entering the eighth grade for the first time becomes immediately eligible in the high school of the attendance area of the student's parents and guardians. A student entering the ninth grade for the first time becomes immediately eligible in the high school of the attendance area of the students parents or guardians.

The language regarding 9th grade exception has changed.   In the 2024-2025 handbook you were automatically eligible, residency status did not matter.  In the 2025-206 handbook, you are only eligible in the attendance area where the child's parent lives.   Then they carve out some exceptions to that rule, in particular Note A.   But it also says in Note D, this change does not go in to effect until July 1, 2026.  So, this is the last year for incoming 9th graders to automatically be eligible to partipciate.  Starting 2026-2027 school year, you will need to fall under an exception. [/quote]

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