School District Confusion!! HELP PLS! (Naples, Lee: rentals, house, living)

[wishingawaysnow]

Can you please explain to me how the school districting works better, here we get a school based on what house we live in, from there from what I have read you have until March to put in a request to county school system and thenif too many apply to good schools the rest are picked by a lottery basis??

Does this have to be done every year? Like here if you start at one elementary school and dont move your kid grows up with same kids all
through school for the most part,

Hoe does it work for subdequent years do you have to put in the request every year or ocne they are assigned a school are they in every year? What about siblings, if you have to go through lottery process again does that mean 2 kids a year apart could end up at different schools?

just trying to make sense out of all this!!!

any help is appreciated!!

Also another thing I dont understand does the same hold true for Charter schools or can they get in those anytime??

[stahltkd]

Originally Posted by wishingawaysnow

Can you please explain to me how the school districting works better, here we get a school based on what house we live in, from there from what I have read you have until March to put in a request to county school system and thenif too many apply to good schools the rest are picked by a lottery basis??

Does this have to be done every year? Like here if you start at one elementary school and dont move your kid grows up with same kids all
through school for the most part,

Hoe does it work for subdequent years do you have to put in the request every year or ocne they are assigned a school are they in every year? What about siblings, if you have to go through lottery process again does that mean 2 kids a year apart could end up at different schools?

just trying to make sense out of all this!!!

any help is appreciated!!

Also another thing I dont understand does the same hold true for Charter schools or can they get in those anytime??

http://studentassignment.leeschools....nglish-web.pdf

[SIZE=3][SIZE=3][LEFT]Once their children are enrolled in a school, parents have
the assurance that they can remain in that school through the
highest grade or until the parents decide to make a change,
or move to another area with a different combination of[/LEFT]
schools.
[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=3][SIZE=3][LEFT]Once the enrollment period ends, each application is
assigned a random number that determines the order in
which the application will be processed; applications are
then sorted giving priority to:[/LEFT]
[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=3][SIZE=3][LEFT]1) Students in full-time special education classes
2) Siblings wanting to attend the same school
3) Students living within proximity areas around
each school[/LEFT]
4) The random number tie breaker
[/SIZE][/SIZE]

[wishingawaysnow]

Thanks for that info!!

[wishingawaysnow]

I would like to see the zoning maps for the collier county schools too, I cant seem to find them on collier county's website!?? Let me know if you can locate those, and I really do appreciate all your help!

[stahltkd]

Originally Posted by wishingawaysnow

I would like to see the zoning maps for the collier county schools too, I cant seem to find them on collier county's website!?? Let me know if you can locate those, and I really do appreciate all your help!

I don't think Collier County has School Assignment.

Lee County: Welcome to The School District of Lee County

[RMD3819]

Originally Posted by wishingawaysnow

I would like to see the zoning maps for the collier county schools too, I cant seem to find them on collier county's website!?? Let me know if you can locate those, and I really do appreciate all your help!

Here ya go!

http://www.collierschools.com/parents/docs/ZoneMaps.pdf

[wishingawaysnow]

WOW THANKS!!! I do appreciate all the help from both of you, this gives me a lot of good starting points when shopping for homes/rentals in the areas!! got some time anyway, but never too early to start doing your homework!

[RMD3819]

Something to keep in mind about having your kid in the same school zone/with the same kids until they graduate-

This will be nearly impossible in Naples. Schools are rezoned because of overcrowding or a new school is built. These are always emotionally charged meetings. Often there are sneaky political reasons in order to favor one demographic over another. They are going through this right now with the class size amandment rules.

The other thing is the transient nature of the population. As an example, my daughter started first grade with about 25 kids. She graduated high school with three of them-and this was a Catholic school-not subject to any zoning.

[wishingawaysnow]

thats nuts, yeah a lot of kids move in and out of our area due to military, daughter already lost her best friend to a move...due to her dad being enlisted...

[CCRESI]

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Once you find the schools that your children can go to, look them up on greatschools.org. That is what I did when we moved down, and that is the link I give people I have worked with that have kids.
There are also Charter Schools, not sure if you have them where you are from, but they can be great schools as well.

Good luck! School choice is very different, but I am thankful we have it here