Magnet Schools

Magnet Schools and Magnet Programs offer a specialized curriculum to students outside the school’s normal attendance boundaries. These programs may include a particular theme or focus such as mathematics, science, technology, communications, international affairs, business or performing arts.

A Magnet School is defined as an elementary, middle, or high school that offers, to all students enrolled in that particular school, a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different social, economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.

Magnet Programs differ slightly from a Magnet School as the special curriculum is offered to a cohort of students as opposed to the entire school. In Florida, 642,298 students participated in 581 magnet schools or magnet programs in 28 Florida school districts during the 2017-2018 school year.

 

There are two Magnet Schools in Lake County.  Please visit their website for more information.