The Dothan City Schools are now taking applications for its magnet school programs for the 2010-2011 school year.
The city schools began their initial round of magnet school applications on Feb. 1 and will take applications until the end of the month. The city has four magnet schools -- two elementary and two middle -- which offer an enriched curriculum and stricter disciplinary environment than the city’s other schools. Each year the city seeks to fill vacant spots in the schools by soliciting applications, which always end up exceeding the number of slots available.
Ted Hall, management information director for the school system, said more than 100 slots are open at each elementary and middle magnet school.
The city’s magnet schools have different selection criteria for elementary school and middle school applicants.
Students seeking entry into the Montana Magnet School and Heard Magnet School, the elementary magnet schools, are chosen by a lottery. Some preference zones exist for students living in the neighborhoods surrounding the elementary schools.
For Carver Magnet School and Beverlye Magnet School, the two middle magnet schools, requirements state that potential students must have a B average in all core subjects, must not have less than a C in any core subject, must score well on the Alabama Reading and Math Test and the SAT-10 or alternative tests, and also not have major behavioral offenses in their record. Special education students can be admitted to Carver if the school fits their individual education plan. Preferment zones also exist around the schools.
Students are zoned for magnet schools in the city’s north/south cluster, with students living in the north cluster attending Montana and Carver, and students in the southern cluster attending Heard and Beverlye.
In June 2008, the Dothan City School Board established Heard Elementary School and Beverlye Middle School as magnet schools. The addition of these two schools was part of a rezoning program that split the city schools into a Dothan High School and Northview High School cluster/feeding system.
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