Only one application per student can be accepted. If you change your mind after the deadline, please don't send a second or third application. Through March 12, 2010, you may call and schedule an appointment to come in and change an application that was received by the deadline.
Parents should make sure the student's address and phone numbers are up-to-date in the Duval County Public Schools data base. This must be done at the school your student currently attends. The Magnet Programs staff cannot update addresses or phone numbers.
Applications for students who live in a county adjacent to Duval County will not be processed in the magnet lottery. Applicants from outside Duval County will be placed on a space-available basis after all Duval County applicants are placed.
Applications for students who are moving to Duval County from another state or city in Florida must have a local address before we can complete the processing of the application.
Applications for Duval County students currently enrolled in a private school are welcomed.
Students who are accepted into a magnet program and move to another school district forfeit their magnet assignment.
In rare cases, students on Waiting Lists may be contacted in December for January 2011 admission if space becomes available after the school year starts.
The lottery assumes the student will be promoted to the next grade level. Students who are retained prior to first-time enrollment may not be able to be accommodated in the selected program.
School starts on August 23. Magnet students who do not enroll by the end of the third day of school, August 25, are cancelled unless the parent or guardian makes late-enrollment arrangements in advance with the principal of the school. Approval is at the discretion of the school principal.
Parents may cancel a magnet assignment during the summer by calling the Magnet Programs Office at 904.390.2082. You will be asked to give us a reason for the cancellation.
Children entering kindergarten must be five years old as of September 1, 2010.
Once a student enrolls in a magnet school, the student may remain through the highest grade level of that school unless the school has Academic Performance Standards that are not met. Once enrolled in a magnet school, the student is expected to remain in that school for the entire school year. Transferring during the school year is not always possible because all schools are obligated to meet the class-size reduction limitations. The Application to Return to Attendance Area School form must be completed and approved by both principals before a transfer can be considered. Magnet-to-magnet transfers are not possible.
New bus stops cannot be added if you apply to a magnet school after the magnet application deadline, if you move or change schools after the school year begins or because there is no sidewalk along the route to an existing stop.
Students who are eligible to receive Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services have equal opportunities to apply for participation in magnet programs. The individual student's IEP team determines the specific educational needs of the student and how/where those needs can most appropriately be met. Based on the educational needs of each student, recommendations for support services may or may not be consistent with placement in a particular magnet program.
Although Magnet programs are open-admission, some schools have academic performance standards that must be met for a student to return each year: Darnell-Cookman, James Weldon Johnson, Kirby-Smith, LaVilla, Paxon SAS, Stanton, Peterson and Randolph.
Magnet students who want to apply to a different school/program for 2010-2011 forfeit the current magnet assignment. The magnet lottery cannot consider a student for two magnet seats at the same time.
Students who are accepted into a high school acceleration program (i.e., IB, AICE, Early College) must return to their attendance area school if they withdraw from the acceleration program.
