Adopted: April 2009
Revised: July 2026
Download 502.3P - Attendance Priorities for Transfer Students – Magnet Schools
1. Overview – Enrollment in Cedar Park and Glacier Hills will occur in the two phases listed below. Enrollment in other magnet schools is subject to the District's standard enrollment and intradistrict transfer procedures. Magnet school information, guidelines and application are available at www.district196.org/MagnetSchools.
2. Enrollment Process
2.1 Phase One: Attendance Area Enrollment – The following students will be enrolled to attend the magnet school. No magnet school application is necessary.
2.1.1 Students who live in the attendance area of the magnet school they want to attend.
2.1.2 Students who are District 196 residents and attend daycare in the attendance area of a magnet school, in accordance with Policy 502, Student Transfers.
2.2 Phase Two: Reserved Enrollment – Placements in Cedar Park and Glacier Hills will be made from the following groups, in the order listed, using a random selection process. If space no longer remains when a name is drawn, the student will be added to a waiting list for his or her choice school. A magnet school application is necessary.
2.2.1 District residents who live outside the magnet school attendance area but have one or more siblings currently enrolled there.
2.2.2 Students who live in a magnet school attendance area but are applying to attend a magnet school other than their own.
2.2.3 Students from a non-title District 196 school attendance area.
2.2.4 All remaining applicants who are District 196 residents.
2.2.5 Siblings of current magnet school students who do not reside in District 196.
2.2.6 Current open-enrolled students who do not reside in District 196.
2.2.7 All remaining applicants who do not reside in District 196.