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Basically I am wondering if it's possible to apply to a school district for attendance while living outside the district. Maybe a few seats are reserved on lottery basis or tuition basis etc?
In specific I am curious about bay port blue point. But also in general does LI have this?
Never heard of such a thing.Private schools yes but not public because to expect taxpayers to pay for transportation of an out of district student is unfair.
Basically I am wondering if it's possible to apply to a school district for attendance while living outside the district. Maybe a few seats are reserved on lottery basis or tuition basis etc?
In specific I am curious about bay port blue point. But also in general does LI have this?
Not that I heard of. But some of the parochial schools have a program that you can apply to called Tomorrows Hope which helps with tuition based on your tax information. I dont know anything else about it.
Yes, like pp said it's not common at all and it's very expensive (like over $10K a year expensive I'm sure). I grew up in Huntington and one of my classmates ended up going to Cold Spring Harbor. He was having a ton of trouble in Huntington schools and happened to live literally like 10 houses from the school district border.
Most school districts aren't looking for people to come join them, it's too hard to calculate their needs from year to year if they make it easy so they make it way more than private school would cost. Also, no transportation provided and all your kids' schoolmates won't leave nearby and unlike sending your kids to private school, their parents won't care to drive them to you for get togethers and school projects.
Yes, like pp said it's not common at all and it's very expensive (like over $10K a year expensive I'm sure). I grew up in Huntington and one of my classmates ended up going to Cold Spring Harbor. He was having a ton of trouble in Huntington schools and happened to live literally like 10 houses from the school district border.
Most school districts aren't looking for people to come join them, it's too hard to calculate their needs from year to year if they make it easy so they make it way more than private school would cost. Also, no transportation provided and all your kids' schoolmates won't leave nearby and unlike sending your kids to private school, their parents won't care to drive them to you for get togethers and school projects.
No lottery or application process.
More than one Huntington Bay resident has attended Cold Spring Harbor over the years but I am not sure CSH still offers this. The general public would not necessarily know about this. Other districts may offer this expensive option but, again, it is not widespread and you would only know by calling the district itself.
As others have stated not impossible but not too common. It is far more common if you have a special needs child where districts often have too few of their own to start a class so there is a reimbursement for things connected with that child including busing.
I've heard of this happening only if the child is a special needs student and your own school district does not have a program set up for that.
For example, about five years ago I was told that someone who had a child with special needs, was not able to attend their own school district b/c the school district did not have classes set up for this so this child was able to go to attend a school out of district for those classes. However, I was under the impression that since then, all schools on LI must have a plan implemented for special needs kids living in their district.
This is the only way I have heard of a child being "allowed" to attend another district. A family member of mine used to work in the superintendants office and they told me that when the school finds out a child (who should not be attending that school b/c they are out of district), the parent or person who is saying this child resides at this address, when they really don't gets into a lot of trouble (not sure what kind). I know the schools frown upon this for years now.
We live less than .5 miles away.. I didn't think we would be living here by the time kids are school aged .. Have 1.5 years left but none of the good school districts are within our budget. Long island just sort of sucks for the money
I'll be driving my kids to school anyway... Hovering parent here.
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