Specialty Centers

Nov. 16, 2020 – Application will be available online.

Nov. 16, 2020 – Private school testing registration will open. Dates for writing prompt.

Jan. 15, 2021 – Application deadline for students.

Jan. 25, 2021 – Middle school counselor deadline (internal) for finalizing submissions to
high school programs.

March 5, 2021 – Students provided online access to check application status/acceptance.

March 19, 2021 – Deadline for applicants to declare intent or accept wait list offers online. Students may accept one center and one wait list. Students may remain on one wait list until March 26 at 4 p.m.

March 26, 2021 – All students being offered a spot from the wait list must inform specialty center chairs of their intent to accept an offer of admission.

April 16, 2021 – All applicant standings finalized.

Between March 5-19, 2021, students will have opportunities to reconnect with centers.

Oct. 28 – Open House for ACE Center at Highland Springs

Oct. 29 – Open House for ACE Center at Hermitage

Nov. 16 – Application is available online on the specialty center and CTE websites.

Jan. 15 – Application deadline for students.

March 5 – Students notified via email of acceptance status.

March 19 – Eighth-grade students submit acceptance notification to Mrs. Bishop, associate principal. Details of how to do so are explained in March email. High school students (10th or 11th grade) must notify their home school counselor if they are declining acceptance to the ACE Center.

March 20 (high school only) – Waitlisted students are contacted about openings at the ACE Center.

April 12 – Application reopens for high school students for programs with openings. Students who have already applied do not need to reapply; they should contact their home school counselor to learn about which programs have openings. First-time applicants should apply to be considered for the open programs.

April 16 – Eighth-grade students will be added to a Schoology group for the “ACE Center Class of 2025.” This group is used to communicate with students about events that will take place during their freshman and sophomore years.

NOTE: New applications will not be accepted after the first two weeks of the beginning of a school year. Students enrolling after this time have typically missed the equivalent to 15 class periods of a standard course and have a hard time catching up.