Drawing across school boundaries: How federally-funded magnet schools recruit and admit students

Title:	Drawing across school boundaries: How federally-funded magnet schools recruit and admit students
Description:	A key goal of many magnet programs is to improve student diversity in schools. This snapshot, based on surveys completed by most of the more than 160 schools recently funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) grants and interviews with their district coordinators, describes how MSAP-funded magnet schools recruit and admit students. Schools report using a variety of strategies to recruit students, targeting those the schools believe are likely to exercise choice. These schools are most likely to give preference in admissions to siblings of students already enrolled in the magnet and students in nearby neighborhoods or schools.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (2.7MB)
Cover Date:	January 2021
Web Release:	January 27, 2021
Publication #:	NCEE 2021003
Center/Program:	NCEE
Authors:	Moira McCullough, Lindsay Ochoa, and Christina Tuttle at Mathematica
Type of Product:	Evaluation Brief
Keywords:	Alternative Schools Public Schools Schools • school demography
Questions:	For questions about the content of this Evaluation Brief, please contact: Lauren Angelo.