About transferring high schools

[Rokz]

I'm from a catholic school board and I want to transfer over to a public high school for grade 12. School A is the school in which all students living around my area goes to. School B is the school that is a little bit further down the street where students from that area goes to.

I want to go to school B but I called them last year and they said I can only go to school A since that is my designated school. However I know quite a few people who go to school B even though they live way further than me?

Should I not bother asking and just fill out a form, go to School B's guidance and hope they wont bother checking where I live and accept me or do I absolutely have no choice but to go to School A?

I know most of you guys are done/in university but i'm hoping to see if anyone of you guys know anything about this stuff.

Thank you everyone

[CSK'sMom]

It's totally up to school B if and under what circumstances they take out of boudary students. If school B is full to capacity they do not have to accept any out of boundary students at all. Generally most boards only allow it under a fairly strict set of circumstances. One of those would be that school B offers a course that is not available at your home school. If you're trying to get into school B using a reason like "my friends go here" or "this school is ranked higher and more kids get into "X" uni" they do not have to accept you and are within their rights not to.

[CorSter]

Actually... in this case it sounds like you're trying to transfer from a YCDSB school to a YRDSB school... the issue may be that your parents may support English-Catholic rather than English-Public on their MPAC file..... YRDSB will still take you if space is available, but they are not legally obligated to.