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This depends entirely on State and School District. Our State allows transfers to other districts if there is space. But there is no insentive. But our local school district does NOT. The only exception is if a parents works for the school district, and even that they are accepting very few students. This is because this is a rapidly growing city with one of the "best" ranked schools in the area. The schools we have can't keep up to the population we have and our schools are over enrolled. (We are building schools.) The situation is bad enough we have to prove we still live in the city every year, because there are always some to try to cheat the system.

So if you were trying to "transfer" into our district you would be out of luck. It's even getting difficult if you want your child to go to anything but your neighborhood school. The only exception is a few specific alternative schools, the 4-6 gifted program, and if a kid is in special-ed.