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Zoning and Tuition Applications for 2009-10 now available by clicking here.

 

Parents who would like to request their child attend a different city school outside the school zone their student is expected to attend must apply for a zoning exception. Parents of students who are not legal residents of the city of Kingsport must submit a tuition application to attend a Kingsport City School. Parents or legal guardians must apply annually for their child’s tuition and zoning status, even if they attended a Kingsport City School during the preceding school year.

 

No student shall be permitted to attend a school out of his/her zone unless space is available. The following are excerpts from the Kingsport Board of Education’s policies and procedures for zoning and tuition:

 

  • Parents or legal guardians must apply annually for their child’s tuition and zoning status;
  • Students who are not legal residents of the city of Kingsport shall pay tuition charges as approved annually by the Board of Education. Failure to pay tuition will disqualify a student’s application for the next year.
  • Tuition students are accepted and zoning exceptions are granted only if current enrollment permits;
  • Kingsport City Schools does not provide transportation to either tuition students or to students to whom a zoning exception has been granted.;

Criteria for zoning exceptions are as follows:

  1. Documented medical reasons;
  2. Child Care availability;
  3. An expected move to a different zone;
  4. Specialized school programs;
  5. A fifth or an eighth grade student with a previous zoning exception;
  6. A student whose family has moved to a different zone after November 1;
  7. Documented justifications related to the child’s specific educational experience.

The school system utilizes the following order when placing students:

  1. Zoning exception reapplications;
  2. Tuition reapplications for school employees working at the requested school;
  3. New zoning exceptions applications;
  4. Tuition reapplications;
  5. New tuition applications for school employees working a the requested school;
  6. New tuition applications for system and city employees;
  7. New tuition applications for out of district residents.

 

For more information, call Tyler Fleming, Director of Student Services, at (423) 378-2155.