Gwangju Office of Education Announces Basic Plan for 2022 High School Admission Process

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Gwan-woo] The Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education announced on the 29th the "2022 Academic Year Gwangju Metropolitan City High School Admission Basic Plan."

According to the Enforcement Decree of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Superintendent of Education must finalize and announce the high school admission basic plan by the 31st of the current year.

The main content of the 2022 academic year high school admission basic plan is that assignable high schools are determined based on the student's middle school of origin using a Geographic Information System.

Middle school grades are divided into three tiers and applied so that students are evenly assigned to each high school. The overall framework, including a 20% early application and 80% late application lottery assignment method, remains the same as last year.

In the early application, two schools must be selected, and in the late application, students can choose from assignable high schools based on their middle school of origin. The lottery assignment is conducted regardless of the order of application among the selected schools.

With the termination of the autonomous public high school policy in the 2025 academic year, it was decided to assign autonomous public high school admissions from the 2023 academic year freshmen to the late-stage equalization general high schools, and this was pre-announced in the basic admission plan.

Additionally, improvements related to gifted schools' admission procedures, such as prohibiting duplicate applications to gifted schools, were reflected. Due to the reduction of face-to-face activities caused by COVID-19, the volunteer activity evaluation standard hours applied since last year were adjusted again this year so that a score of full marks is given if the volunteer hours within the curriculum reach 7 hours or more, which is the recommended volunteer time.

Although there are no autonomous private high schools, foreign language high schools, or international high schools in the Gwangju area, students applying to such schools in other regions must submit a "Late-stage General High School Desired Assignment Consent Form" when filling out the application. They must not select early application and must choose from assignable high schools by their middle school of origin in the late application.

The upcoming major schedule includes the announcement of the special purpose high school admission plan by July 16, and the confirmation and announcement of the early and late high school admission plans by August 6.

Specialized high school application submission is from November 22 to 25, and late-stage general high school application submission is from December 17 to 23.

Detailed information can be found on the Metropolitan Office of Education website, the Gwangju Career and Academic Support Center, and the respective middle schools.

Baek Ki-sang, Director of Secondary Education at the Metropolitan Office of Education, said, "Gwangju's high school admission process has been stably established, and we will do our best to ensure that both students and parents are highly satisfied with the admission through the advanced Gwangju-type equalization policy."

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