Alumni/Graduate: Priority given to an applicant who has a parent/legal guardian, sibling, or other immediate relative who graduated from a technical high school operated by the Connecticut Technical and Education and Career System (CTECS).

Applicant Sibling: Efforts are made to offer the district/technical school placement to siblings who share at least one biological parent or legal guardian. The siblings must apply to the same districts/schools in the same order of preference.

CTECS Only: Applicants selecting the Technical High Schools as their only option may receive priority based on available seats. CTECS Early Application: Applicants entering 9th grade may apply to the technical high schools by January 22, 2021 and receive early notification of a technical high school placement opportunity in February 2021.

Employee/Staff or College Student: Priority may be given to children of employees and staff of a school. At Goodwin University, the priority may apply to children of college students.

Enrolled Sibling: Priority may be given to a child who is applying to the same school that a brother or sister currently attends. The siblings must share at least one biological parent or legal guardian. The sibling that is already enrolled in the school must continue to attend the school or district in the following school year. (This preference is applied for Hartford Residents applying to Hartford Magnet Schools only --applicants must live within .5 miles of the magnet school they are applying to)

Hartford Residential Neighborhood: Priority may be given to an applicant based on how close the magnet school applicant lives to a nearby school that uses a neighborhood priority. This preference is applied for Hartford Residents applying to Hartford Magnet Schools only --applicants must live within .5 miles of the magnet school they are applying to)

Civic Leadership High School (CREC Magnet School), has a Neighborhood preference. Suburban residents who live within a 10 mile radius of this Magnet school are given a preference).

Open Choice Only: Applicants selecting the Open Choice Program as their only option may receive priority based on available seats.

Partner District: A partner district is a placement priority given to applicants who live in a town that has a partnership agreement with the magnet school.

Pathway: Priority may be given to students coming from another magnet school for a limited number of seats. The pathways serve as a placement priority for students coming from one magnet school to another magnet school designated as a pathway school.

Twins/Multiples: Although this is not a placement priority, efforts are made to link applications where two or more children share the same date of birth and at least one biological parent or legal guardian. The siblings must be applying to the same grade and the same schools in the same choice order.

Residential Zone: For Hartford Resident applicants to Open Choice: Placement offer is based on the applicant’s residential address.

Residential Zone: For Hartford Residents applying to Hartford Magnet Schools: Priority may be given to Hartford resident students living in specific

Hartford school zones and applying to certain schools:

• Zone 1 and applying to Montessori Magnet at Annie Fisher School, STEM Magnet at Annie Fisher School, Webster MicroSociety Magnet School, Hartford Prekindergarten Magnet School, or Breakthrough Magnet School North
• Zone 2 and applying to Capital Preparatory Magnet School (Grades PK3–Grade 5 only)
• Zone 3 and applying to Breakthrough Magnet School South, Environmental Sciences Magnet at Hooker School, or Montessori Magnet at Batchelder School
• Zone 4 and applying to Kinsella Magnet School of the Performing Arts (PK4–8), or Betances Learning Lab Magnet School