We will forward the additional information from the department when we receive it. In the meantime, we called the six districts and found that, in general, the choice options they offer are magnet schools rather than open enrollment. Manchester may have an open enrollment program, according to a description of the options provided by the district's Parent Information Center. But the center's spokesperson did not want to characterize the Manchester program as an open enrollment program. The information we received from our calls to the districts is summarized below.
Students apply for admission to the magnet schools and are chosen by lottery.
It does allow kindergarteners and first graders to attend schools outside their neighborhoods on a space-available basis. The magnets cover kindergarten through 12 th grade. Students apply to go to the schools and, if applications exceed available space, are chosen by lottery. The district has between 3,000 and 4,000 applicants for its magnet schools. Unless a child attends a magnet school, he must go to his neighborhood school.