Incheon Office of Education Conducts Lottery for General High Schools in Equalization Areas... 85.9% Assigned to First Choice

Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education announced on the 19th that it has assigned new students to the standardized region general high schools for the 2024 academic year.

The total number of students is 18,116, which is 1,476 (7.5%) fewer than last year. The schools subject to assignment include 31 boys' schools, 26 girls' schools, and 17 coeducational schools, totaling 74 schools.

As a result of the assignment based on the preference order followed by a lottery, the percentage of students assigned to their first-choice school was 85.9%. Notably, starting this year, the standardized general high school groups have been revised from 3 to 6, and the percentage of students assigned within their first to fifth choices increased by about 1 percentage point compared to last year (98%), reducing the number of students assigned to distant schools after the sixth choice.

Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education building exterior

The Office of Education assigns all first-choice applicants to their first-choice school if the number of applicants is below the quota, and the remaining vacancies are filled from the second-choice applicants. If vacancies remain after the second choice, they are filled in order from the third and fourth choices.

If the number of applicants for a school exceeds the recruitment quota, applicants are arranged according to predetermined criteria and assigned at regular intervals. Students who failed to enter autonomous private high schools, foreign language high schools, or international high schools but applied simultaneously to standardized region general high schools and were selected as assignment candidates are assigned starting from their second-choice school.

The assignment process was conducted through a computer lottery system on the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education's high school admission and transfer portal, following the order of the applicants' preferences, and once assigned, the school cannot be changed.

Meanwhile, the preliminary orientation for standardized region general high schools will begin on the 22nd, and each school will provide guidance on new student registration and orientation.

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