I Wish To Transfer High Schools But The One I Want To Be In Is Out Of My District. Help

Is it bad to transfer high schools junior year?

I did this! I was furious at my parents for moving that year, and literally made myself sick the few weeks before school started because I was so nervous to start at a new school.Long term, it was one of the best things that could have happened. I had been in my other (very small) school district from K-10th grade. Everyone knew each other. I had set friends I would hang out with. The school was pretty cliquey.While it was tough the first few weeks to leave the comfort of a known friend group and environment, I was the “new girl” and people had a tendency to want to get to know me at the new school. The big plus was that I wasn’t really pegged into a certain clique because I was an unknown quantity. I wound up with a much wider variety of friends than at my previous school & somehow was able to make friends across different groups of people rather than people having notions of me based on stuff that happened in elementary school. I didn’t feel confined by being labelled a certain way or being in a clique. I dated more, I tried more new things… I feel like the move wound up being very liberating in a way.The experience also made me more confident when it came time to transition to college. I actually still keep in touch with friends from both high schools and we graduated in 1987!It’s scary to start a new high school, but if it’s in your future look at it as an opportunity to redefine yourself. Good luck!P.S. I noticed some other people mentioned academic inpact. I did have an issue where my first school did not weight AP courses and my second school did. However, the guidance department would not weight the courses from my original school although I passed the AP exam. My parents actually came in to school to argue this (only time I can remember them getting involved in stuff like this.) Eventually, we reached a compromise that the school would not weight my previous grades - they just refused, but they also put a note to colleges that my class rank was inaccurate due to discrepancies in the grading scales used. I got in to where I wanted to go to college, so long term no biggie. No other issues with the academics between the two schools.

Can I transfer to a school I'm not zoned to?

In California where I live and taught, the answer is yes, and the process is simple. If you want to change from one school in your district to another school in your district, just ask for an intra-district transfer form, have your parents fill it out, and then return it. (Your parents may have to agree that since you will be off the bus route, they will provide transportation.) You should be in your new school in a week. You don't have to make a case or convince anyone about the merits of the move. If there is space (and they will be for one student!), you just ask and go.If you want to move from a school in your own district to a school in another district, you will have to obtain an inter-district transfer form. That will have two parts or pages because one is for your own district and the other is for the district to which you wish to move. Have your parents fill them out and follow instructions about where to send the forms. In my district you just returned the entire form to your school and they separated the parts and contacted the new district. (I have been told that in my district you now have to go to the district office to get this form.) Again, your parents will have to promise to get you to your new school. Because two districts are involved, this may take a bit longer, and if you are in junior or senior high school, the districts may suggest that you wait for a semester break to move.These seem to be the rules in most states, but I did not survey all of them.Best course: have your parents (or you) call the district office and ask about school transfers. You might also drop in and ask for the forms; they will tell you what you need to do.

What is it like to transfer schools in your senior year of high school?

I believe there are many factors involved which determine whether the experience will be positive or negative. My parents moved from Massachusetts to North Carolina the summer of 1989 right as I was about to enter my senior year in high school. I had lived in the same suburban town 20 minutes south of Boston my entire life. I had been enrolled in the same school district since kindergarten & had known every one of my peers since that time. I was very active in school activities including cheerleading and being elected Vice President of my junior class. Transferring from a school where my graduating class had less than 100 students to a high school with a graduating class of 300 in a city 14 hours away that I had never even heard of was devastating. The third day of school I developed flu like symptoms which doctors informed my parents was attributed to a psychosomatic condition. Basically I was so miserable & stressed my mind was making my body physically sick. I plotted to get on a plane to go home to Ma during the Christmas break & never step foot in NC again. I resented both of my parents for the move for some time. They moved by choice - not because one of them had received a job offer too good to refuse. The timing to me was extremely selfish - they couldn't wait ONE more year for me to graduate? I loathed school my senior year & would skip every chance I got. At 44 I'm over it but there was a time where I did feel robbed of the traditions & rites of passage a high school senior's year brings. My mother told me years ago she regretted the decision to move at that time & if she could go back to 1989 she wouldn't have encouraged the move just before my senior year. In today's economy there are challenges that relocating can alleviate. However if a child is happy & adjusted a move right before or during the senior year is cruel.

Is it too late to transfer to another high school during my junior year?

Oh hell no. I don't know about your situation and reasons to transferring, but if you want to, why not? During my junior year, a guy (let's call him A) I was friends with suddenly didn’t show up to school. Two weeks past and he still didnt show up. His friends didn't know what was going on until at the end of junior year. He mo to another school, near his old school. He apparently got so stressed (my school was known to be hardcore in academic….barely survived myself) that he ran away from school. Somehow with the help of his parents and psychologists, he moved to a different school. He's much happier and better now:) got into a better college than most of students in my school. So don't worry! I mean, even in college know so many students moving away transferring to different schools.

I want to go to one high school but my parents want me to go to another one. what should I do?

I am in this exact situation right now with my daughter. She is also a 4.0 gpa 8th-grader, and our school district allows parents to request an inter-district transfer to a school other than the one indicated by the location of your home. (In other words, there’s a default area for each school, but you can ask to go to a different one. There are five in the district.)I’m literally going to register my daughter this afternoon, after I post this Answer.In her case, her primary reason for attending a different school is that she believes that most of her middle school friends will be attending that school. All the schools are good academically, but her school of choice has a different approach than our default school.Each school is several miles away from our home. Her older brother attends our default school and is very happy there. He’ll be a Senior when she’s a Freshman, and would be driving her to school. If she goes to the other school, I would have about a 20-minute drive out of my way to take her there each morning. Because it’s not our default school, there aren’t any carpool opportunities that we know of.For the OP, you don’t say why you “know” one high school would be “better for you.” I find it very hard to believe that your parents “don’t care.” Parents are very much in the business of caring about their childrens’ well-being and education. Why does “almost every adult” you see agree with your parents? Have you considered their reasoning, as you are asking them to consider yours?Have your parents spoken with your guidance counselors directly about this? What are your guidance counselors taking into account that your parents (and apparently all other adults) are not?I can completely understand your anxiety about this. In addition to the situation I’m in with my daughter right now, when I was your age my mom wanted to send me to an all-boy school in another town because she thought it was “better” for me. I was able to convince her not too, but it was an anxious time for me, too.I think your best course of action would be to arrange a meeting with you, your parents, and your guidance counselors, to discuss the potential pros and cons of each school, and then to go with your parents to the two high schools to speak with representatives there about it. It may be that one school or the other is not as good a fit, and you can make your decision together with better information.