Application Process

The 2025-26 PORTER APPLICATION is a part of the PWCS Specialty Program Application.

 

PORTER INFORMATION NIGHTSto be held at Porter Traditional School

Tuesday, December 10, 2024              6:30-7:30pm
Wednesday, January 15, 2025            6:30-7:30pm 

**Registration is not necessary to attend either of these sessions.

  

The DEADLINE to submit your student’s 2025-26 Porter application is 12:00midnight, Saturday, February 1, 2025.  Late submissions WILL NOT BE accepted.

 

IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW WHEN SUBMITING AN APPLICATION

1) When completing an application for your student, please note that a separate application must be submitted for each student.

2) PRIVATE SCHOOL students must upload a CURRENT REPORT CARD when submitting an application.

3) Any student with a CURRENT IEP must upload the full IEP (not progress reports) when submitting an application.

4) Duplicate applications for the same choice program will be eliminated; the most recent submission will be kept.

5) Incomplete applications will not be evaluated.

6) All applications will be processed electronically.

7) Any falsification of information may result in your application not being processed and/or denied.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: If your student is currently on an INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PLAN (IEP), you must upload the entire IEP documentation to the Specialty Program application portal.  Failure to do so will nullify the application and it will be considered incomplete.

  

 

 

 


LOTTERY RESULTS/ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION

RESULTS and APPLICATION STATUS information will be communicated ONLY THROUGH THE APPLICATION PORTAL. 

Families will receive an email asking them to return to the application portal, log in and check the status of their application.

NOTE:  ALL APPLICATION COMMIUNICATION WILL BE VIA EMAIL. Be sure to include this email address in your ‘approved’ contacts[email protected]

 

 

 

The 2025-26 APPLICATION LINK will be posted on NOVEMBER 1, 2024.


 PORTER APPLICATION PROCESS


Enrollment at Porter Traditional School is limited, if the number of applications received exceeds enrollment capacity, a lottery is used to select students for current openings. The lottery will be conducted in February.

Parents are notified of results, via the PWCS Specialty Program Application portal, at the end of February.  Families receive an email directing them to sign back into the application portal to view the lottery results. 

Any student not pulled in the lottery is placed on the waiting list (by grade)

We continue to pull from the waiting list until September 30. The waiting list becomes void after September 30. If a student is not pulled from the waiting list, then he/she will have to re-apply the following year.



NOTE FOR STUDENTS APPLYING FOR 1st GRADE

If a student does not meet the PWCS Age of Entrance for Kindergarten: age 5 by September 30 of that school year, and he/she is attending a private school for Kindergarten, in order to advance to 1st grade at a PWCS school, the private school MUST BE ACCREDITED by the Virginia Council for Private Education (VCPE) and/or the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). You may go to VCPE.ORG and/or NAEYC.org to check if a private school is accredited.


**per REGULATION 723-1:"...A child who has not attended kindergarten but meets the age requirements for first grade may be admitted to first grade. After appropriate informal and/or formal observation and assessment, the principal, with the consent of the parents, may recommend alternative placement."

Additionally, "...Instruction in the home of a child or children by the parent/guardian or other person having control or charge of the child or children shall not be classified as an accredited kindergarten program. ."

 


Students residing in the eastern part of Prince William County are eligible to apply to Porter Traditional School. If your child's base (neighborhood) school is listed below, you may apply:

 

Antietam Ashland Bel Air Belmont Covington-Harper
Dale City Dumfries Enterprise Featherstone Fitzgerald
Henderson Jenkinds Kerrydale Kilby King
Lake Ridge Leesylvania Marumsco Hills McAuliffe Minnieville
Montclair Neabsco Occoquan Old Bridge Pattie
Potomac View River Oaks Rockledge Rose Parks Springwoods
Swans Creek Triangle Vaughn Westridge Williams
Wilson