My daughter is a freshman in high school. I live in AZ and just received a job offer in TX. Our original plan was for me to move to TX first with my wife and daughter moving at the end of the school year. It turns out that my wife will no longer be working through the end of the school year, so now we are thinking about actually moving the whole family before the end of the school year.
My daughter is mature for her age, so I’m not worried at all about her adjusting to a new school. What I am worried about is how her high school transcripts get affected. I don’t know how changing in the middle of a school year will affect her ranking (TX grants auto-admission to state schools to top 10% of HS students and we’re pretty sure she’s capable of that, considering she’s only received one B her entire schooling career).
Also, what are good options for online schools? We don’t plan on keeping her in online school for the rest of HS. But one option we are considering is transferring to an online school to finish 9th grade, then transition to a public school for 10th grade (this will give us the freedom to actually look around at area high schools instead of just blindly picking a school based on test scores).
Your daughter is s freshman with one semester of school under her belt. Unless this is a temporary move she will be doing 3.5 years of HS in Texas. You need to find out if there is school choice or if high school is zoned based on where you live Depending on the school system you may not have a lot of choice as In some counties schools get afunding through property taxes. Have you looked at houses neighborhoods For your new home yet.
Just move and enroll in school. She’ll make friends in the school and have friends for the summer. She can get involved in activities. My kids moved and started a school March 5. The biggest issue was that the new school was 6 weeks into the new semester and the school they left had just finished, so make sure your daughter is placed in the right courses (language, math). One daughter just plowed through the math units she’d missed. It was not a great semester grade wise for either, but they survived. One was in the middle of AP Euro History, and claims she missed a lot, but the exam is given on the same day anyway.
Definitely enroll as soon as you can unless it totally doesn’t work academically…it will help her make friends. We had to move half way through my DD’s 10th grade…the colleges can put together the transcripts.