magnet program

Selective public school

A magnet program is a specialized public school curriculum designed to attract students from across a district by offering focused instruction in areas like science, arts, or technology.

Created partly to promote voluntary desegregation, magnet programs draw students away from their neighborhood schools to centralized locations: She got into the magnet program for performing arts.

Also called magnet school.

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school selection and enrollment method

magnet programfeeder school

School supplying students upstream

open enrollment

educational specialization

magnet programcomprehensive school

Nonselective secondary institution

basic education

educational accessibility

magnet programautomatic enrollment

Default participation upon eligibility

community school · local school

Family

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