The Greenwich Public Schools offers a choice to the families of Greenwich that may wish to apply to any of the District’s four elementary magnet schools and one middle school magnet program. School choice provides opportunities to attend a school with programs that may be of particular interest to a family and/or an individual student. School choice also provides the District with a means of balancing enrollment among its schools on a voluntary basis rather than by mandating school attendance area changes. The Magnet School Application Guidelines Packet will be available in January on the GPS website at greenwichschools.org/magnetschools
The deadline for Magnet Applications for the 2018-2019 school year is Feb. 9.
All Greenwich Public Magnet Schools teach the same curriculum and provide the same support services as every other public elementary and middle school in Greenwich.
Hamilton Avenue School (HAS), Preschool-Grade 5 HAS re-opened in 2015 as the District’s first Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) school.
The International School at Dundee (ISD), Grades K-5, is an authorized International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme School and the District’s first magnet school, opening in 2000.
Julian Curtiss School (JCS), Grades K-5, is a magnet school of World Languages since 2003; students attending represent “60 Countries, and 30 Languages, in 1 Great School.” JCS offers the choice of learning either Spanish or French in grades K-5.
New Lebanon School (NLS), Grades K-5, is an authorized International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme school and has been a magnet school since 2009.
Western Middle School (WMS), Grades 6-8, re-opened as a magnet school in 2013 as an authorized International Baccalaureate World School offering the Middle Years Programme.
The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, Jan. 9
The International School at Dundee: 9:15 a.m.
New Lebanon School: 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 10
New Lebanon School: 9 a.m.
Julian Curtiss School: 7 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 11
(The International School at Dundee – Snow date: 9 a.m.)
Hamilton Avenue School: 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 16
(New Lebanon School – Snow date: 7 p.m.)
Wednesday, Jan. 17
Western Middle School: 9 a.m.
Julian Curtiss School: 9:15 a.m.
Western Middle School: 7 p.m.
(Julian Curtiss School – Snow date: 7 p.m.)
Thursday, Jan. 18
(New Lebanon School – Snow date: 9 a.m.)
(Hamilton Avenue School – Snow date: 7 p.m.)
Monday, Jan. 22
The International School at Dundee: 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 23
Hamilton Avenue School: 9:15 a.m.
(The International School at Dundee – Snow date: 7 p.m.)
Wednesday, Jan. 24
(Julian Curtiss School – Snow date: 9:15 a.m.)
(Western Middle School – Snow date: 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.)
Thursday, Jan. 25
(Hamilton Avenue School – Snow date: 9:15 a.m.)
Spanish translation services will be available.
Those requiring special accommodations to attend an Open House should contact the school at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.
