{"id":215486,"date":"2026-04-02T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:19:08","slug":"ocps-opens-magnet-and-scholastic-academies-to-all-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215486\/","title":{"rendered":"OCPS opens magnet and scholastic academies to all Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h928396-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Orange County Public Schools has opened its magnet and scholastic academies to all families in Central Florida, whether they live in or out of Orange County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928396-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Families can apply during the spring\/summer application window starting 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 1, for the district&#8217;s &#8220;most in-demand and innovative programs,&#8221; according to a news release from the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928396-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Seats will be awarded on a first-applied-first-seated basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928396-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The magnet programs and academies offer rigorous, specialized pathways designed to match students&#8217; talents and passions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928396-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Programs are available in artificial intelligence; aviation; law, finance and criminal justice; eSports; medical studies; STEAM; gifted education and performing arts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928396-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;These programs are designed to prepare students college, careers and life,&#8221; said Michelle Thomas, the director of School Choice Services for OCPS. &#8220;By opening applications to all families, we are expanding access to high-quality, specialized education opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"h928396-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">For application access and more information, visit the magnets and\/or scholastic academies sections on <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolchoice.ocps.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">schoolchoice.ocps.net<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County Public Schools has opened its magnet and scholastic academies to all families in Central Florida, whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-215486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}