Our county has open transfer for high school. We have eight high schools and seven of them have specializations such as banking, IB and performing arts. And if you transfer out of district your freshman year, you don’t have to sit out a year for sports. My older son went to the AP magnet, mainly because all his friends from his parochial K-8 school were going there. He did well and started school with a semester’s worth of AP credit. Our younger son went in-district to the performing arts magnet school. He took dance his last two years and loved it - he swore it helped him with his wrestling. He was asked to join the dance company but he had too many conflicts.