Parents Get Advanced Look at School Choices
Oct. 27, 2011 -- WCPSS has updated its student assignment website to allow parents to preview their school choices for the 2012-2013 school year. The lists are based on center of the node driving distance to each school. In January, WCPSS will publish the choice application website that will show complete functionality, to include actual proximity from each family’s address, available seats at each proximity choice, real time numbers of requests for seats by grade level, and other key information.
The address look-up function is available at assignment.wcpss.net through the "Preview School Choices" tab. Parents can enter their address to find which choice options -- at least five elementary, two middle, and two high schools -- are available based on the student assignment plan approved by the Wake County Board of Education on Oct. 18, 2011. Parents can also identify which magnet programs are available to them based on their address.
This preview is not part of the school choice selection process, which will happen later in the school year. Corrections may be made in the coming weeks as WCPSS technicians finalize the programming and data sets that produce the choice lists.
For the 2012-13 school year, the choice process is optional for all parents satisfied with their current school. Families may "grandfather" and remain at their current school, with their current level of transportation, or follow the feeder pattern aligned with their current school, regardless of the choice options presented. Families with rising kindergartners, Wake County residents currently not in WCPSS schools, new Wake County residents, and families seeking a change in student assignment must participate in the choice selection process.
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