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Choice Process Application Timeline

The Choice process has two rounds. The first round is for Grade 8 students who reside in the DCC attendance area. Round 2 is for students who did not get their first choice in Round 1, new students to the DCC, and students on transfer into a DCC middle school.

2008

SEPTEMBER:
> DCC/NEC High School Options Fair
   Paint Branch HS, 9/24, 5-9 pm

OCTOBER:
> DCC/NEC High School Options Fair
   Northwood HS, 10/2, 5-9 pm
> High School Open House, 7-9 pm
   John F. Kennedy HS, 10/06
   Northwood HS, 10/16
   Montgomery Blair HS, 10/27
   Wheaton HS, 10/30
> Students receive Choice forms (Round 1 of Choice process) in the mail

NOVEMBER:
> High School Open House, cont., 7-9 pm
   Einstein HS, 11/10
> Application workshop, 7-9 pm
   Gaithersburg HS, 11/06
   Wheaton HS, 11/10
> Private school/home schooled students enrollment for parents of Grade 8 students entering    Consortia schools in 2009-2010, 5-8:30 p.m. at Spring Mill Field Office, 11/11
> Deadline for returning completed Choice forms to Consortia middle schools,    11/14

2009

JANUARY:
>
Round 1 high school assignment letters mailed to Grade 8 students
> Change of Choice forms available in counseling office for current grades 9, 10, 11 by end    of month

FEBRUARY:
> Change of Choice Deadline, 2/23
> Round 2 Deadline for those students who did not receive first choice in Round 1,    transfer students, and students new to DCC following Round 1, 2/23
About Round 2
> High School Registration Night for Grade 8 students and parents

MARCH:
> Round 2 high school assignment letters mailed to Grade 8 students

APRIL/MAY:
> Deadline for parents to submit school assignment appeals to DCCAPS

 

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