Gold Seal Choice Programs

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Read about all of our Schools and Programs of Choice in the Gold Seal Catalog! This year's catalog is all online and interactive. Click on the links and buttons to navigate to the choices that interest you. Swipe left and right to flip between pages. The catalog is easily viewable on any smart phone, tablet, or computer.

Fort Worth ISD offers several Gold Seal Schools of Choice with various areas of focus at different grade levels. These schools offer a smaller learning community of students with similar interests, all of whom applied and were assigned to the campus through the Gold Seal application process. There are several differences between a traditional school and a School of Choice:

1. Schools of Choice are not identified by a neighborhood.
2. Schools of Choice have a specific focus (Career and Technical Education, STEM, Visual & Performing Arts, Single‑Gender, World Languages, Applied Learning, or Montessori).
3. Students cannot apply to a School of Choice through the District’s transfer process.

Secondary Schools of Choice do not offer UIL athletics (with the exception of Young Men’s Leadership Academy, Young Women’s Leadership Academy, and Trimble Technical).

Gold Seal Programs of Choice are specialized programs that are located in a traditional elementary, middle, or high school campus. All programs are described in this publication, along with the college and career opportunities they provide after completion of the four-year high school programs. The students in these programs applied and were assigned to each campus through the Gold Seal application process.

Campuses featured in our Gold Seal catalog are shown on the map below in red text.

All other FWISD campuses are shown with gray text.

Campuses with a star icon are Schools of Choice.

See the Key for what each colored dot represents.

Yes! Open Houses will be held on campuses in November and December. See specific dates and times below.

Gold Seal applications open on Saturday, November 9, 2024, which is also the day of the Choices Expo. Apply onsite between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Wilkerson-Greines Activity Center, where we will have helpful staff and translators available. Or, apply anytime from home at your convenience, until the Lottery Priority Window ends on January 31, 2025.

Student who apply after the Lottery Priority Window ending January 31, 2025 will not be included in the Lottery and will be added to the bottom of the Waiting List. August 31, 2025 is the final cutoff to apply for the 2025-2026 school year.

For additional assistance, email choices@fwisd.org.

Assignments to Schools of Choice or a Program of Choice are made through the Gold Seal application and lottery process.

1. Review your choices and make a plan:
   
   www.fwisd.org/choices
    
2. Log into your Fort Worth ISD Parent Portal account to access the Gold Seal application:
   
   www.fwisd.org/parentportal
   
   Need a Parent Portal account? A working email address is required to create a Parent Portal account. The email address should be a family email address that is checked regularly. It cannot be a student’s FWISD email address (stu.fwisd.org) assigned to them by the District.
    
3. Complete a separate online application for each child applying for a Program of Choice or School of Choice.

• Students applying to Arlington Heights Dance, I.M. Terrell Academy for STEM & VPA, Young Women’s Leadership Academy, and Young Men’s Leadership Academy require additional documents and/or an audition. Specific information is provided in their program descriptions.
   
• Falsifying information on the Gold Seal application will invalidate it, and the student’s application will be excluded from the selection process.

For support, email choices@fwisd.org.

The Lottery Priority Window ends Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.

Admission is based on a computer-generated selection process. As determined through Board Policy, students will be given the following weighted ranking order during the lottery process:

Gold Seal Programs of Choice

1. Students living in the school’s attendance zone
2. Siblings of resident students who are concurrently enrolled in the school’s Program of Choice
3. Children of resident District employees
4. Students living in the District but outside of the attendance zone
5. Children of non-resident District employees
6. Students living outside of the District

Gold Seal Schools of Choice

1. Siblings of resident students who are concurrently enrolled in the school
2. Children of resident District employees
3. Students living in the District
4. Children of non-resident District employees
5. Students living outside of the District

Students who apply during the Lottery Priority Window but are not selected for their first choice will be placed on a waiting list for their first choice, unless their first choice is Arlington Heights Dance or YWLA. If applicants to these programs are not identified as eligible through the screening process, they will be placed on the waiting list for their second choice if not assigned to their second choice.

Student who apply after the Lottery Priority Window ending January 31, 2025 will not be included in the Lottery and will be added to the bottom of the Waiting List. August 31, 2025 is the final cutoff to apply for the 2025-2026 school year.

Transportation is provided to in-District students.

• Elementary Schools of Choice (SOC) and Programs of Choice (POC) bus stop locations will be at elementary school campuses.
• Middle School SOC and POC bus stop locations will be at middle school campuses.
• High School SOC and POC bus stop locations will be at middle school campuses.
• Bus routes are determined by students’ home addresses only.
• Transportation is not provided for before or after-school activities or extracurricular activities.

Email choices@fwisd.org with any questions or issues.