Moving students, moving teachers. School system with a 'magnetic' personality. Options to forced busing. A community speaks out. How it works To encourage voluntary busing, Fort Wayne offers five magnet elementary schools and one magnet middle school.
Students apply to enroll at the magnet schools.
Selections are made based on availability and racial balance. If a school has more applicants than spaces available, students are selected using a computerized lottery. Waiting lists are maintained of children who aren't selected. Fort Wayne has a feeder system in which children from various neighborhood schools move on to a specific middle school, then on to their district high school. However, those district boundaries are less important because a family can apply for their child to attend any school.