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 8th grade students
Feb. 15, 2021 – Application deadline for 10th & 11th  grade students

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

Feb. 2, 3, 4, 2021 – Assessments given to HCPS students.

Feb. 10, 11, 12, 2021 – Make-up assessment dates.

March 19, 2021 – Students provided online access to check application status/acceptance.

April 2, 2021 – Deadline for applicants to declare intent or accept waitlist offers online. Students may accept one center and one waitlist, or students may accept two waitlist offers if they did not receive an offer.

April 16, 2021 – All students offered a spot from the waitlist must inform specialty center chairs of their intent to accept an offer of admission.

April 23, 2021 – All applicant standings finalized.

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.

Feb. 19 –  Application deadline for students.

March 19 – Students notified via email of acceptance status

March 19 – Eighth-grade students submit acceptance notification to Mrs. Bishop (ACE Center at Hermitage associate principal). Details of how to do so will be explained in the March 19 email. High school students (10th or 11th grade) must notify their home school counselor if they are declining acceptance to the ACE Center.
*All waitlist and alternative program selection applications will be notified on a rolling basis as openings are available.

April 26 – Application reopens for high school students for programs who have 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 for consideration to 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.