2023-24 PORTER APPLICATION PROCESS
Thank you for your interest in Mary G. Porter Traditional School.
At this time, the 2023-24 application period has ended. We had another very successful application period this year, receiving over 1200 applications! We have only 81 openings in first grade, there are only 13 openings for the remaining grades, which means, unfortunately we will have a very long waiting list.
LOTTERY RESULTS/ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION will be communicated 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 communication will be via email. Be sure to include this email address in your ‘approved’ contacts: scribonline@scribsoft.com
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."
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 |