magnet school
noun
: a school with superior facilities and staff and often a specialized curriculum designed to attract pupils from throughout a city or school district
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They are also required to hold two parent-teacher conferences annually, and students in those attendance zones receive priority points in the district’s magnet school admissions process.
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Teresa Liu, Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
School breakfast While magnet school funding would decrease by $12 million, Lamont’s proposal for universal free school breakfast for all public school students would cost the same amount — $12 million.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
The court’s remedy for desegregation was to improve academic success, and the court ordered reductions in class sizes, summer school programs, tutoring, magnet schools and capital improvements.
—Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
Yet large districts, including Chicago’s, operate selective enrollment and magnet schools that screen by test scores or other factors.
—Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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Teresa Liu, Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026
School breakfast While magnet school funding would decrease by $12 million, Lamont’s proposal for universal free school breakfast for all public school students would cost the same amount — $12 million.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
The court’s remedy for desegregation was to improve academic success, and the court ordered reductions in class sizes, summer school programs, tutoring, magnet schools and capital improvements.
—Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
Yet large districts, including Chicago’s, operate selective enrollment and magnet schools that screen by test scores or other factors.
—Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
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“Magnet school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnet%20school. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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