2010-2011 APPLICATION PROCESS

2010 – 2011 Application (English)  will be available on December 15, 2009, online and in school. 

2010 – 2011 Application (Spanish)  will be available on December 15, 2009, online and in school. 

Students residing in the eastern part of Prince William County are eligible to apply to Porter.  If your child’s base (neighborhood) school is listed below, you may apply:

Antietam                 Ashland                   Bel Air                    Belmont                    Dale City

Dumfries                  Enterprise               Feathersone           Fitzgerald                  Henderson

Marumsco Hills         McAuliffe                Minneville               Montclair                   Neabsco

Occoquan                Old Bridge               Pattie                     Potomac View            River Oaks

Rockledge                Rosa Parks              Springwoods          Swans Creek             Triangle

Vaughn                   Westridge                Williams

§  We accept applications from December 15, 2009 - February 16, 2010 (NO exceptions).  Only COMPLETED applications are accepted.

§  We conduct the lottery in March to select students for the openings we have at that time.

§  Any student not pulled in the lottery is placed on the waiting list (by grade)

§  We continue to pull from the waiting list until September 30. The waiting list becomes void after September 30.  If a student is not pulled from the waiting list, then he/she will have to re-apply the following year.

§  Students moving into Prince William County AFTER February 16 are given the opportunity to submit an application (within 60 days of moving to Prince William County) – at which time, the student will be placed at the bottom of the waiting list for the respective grade level.

Enrollment at Mary G. Porter Traditional School is limited; if the number of applications received exceeds enrollment capacity, a lottery is used to select students for current openings.  

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

Information Nights:      Thursday, December 17, 2009       6:30-7:30pm

                                           Tuesday, January 19, 2010             7:00-8:00pm

Questionnaire Writing   Wednesday, January 13, 2010      6:30-7:30pm

Sessions                          Tuesday, January 26, 2010             6:30-7:30pm

                                            Wednesday, February 3, 2010      7:00-8:00pm

                                            Thursday, February 11, 2010         7:00-8:00pm

Prospective Parent School Tour is Friday, January 22, 2010  10:00-11:00am