A CCSD family deals with three different maps: the attendance boundary, the Magnet geographic preference area, and the Magnet transportation zone. Only one of them decides your school without an application.

Every Clark County School District student starts with a zoned school. The district "uses the official residence of the parent/guardian of the student to establish the school to which the student is assigned," according to the Open Enrollment FAQs (checked Saturday, October 17, 2026). Open Enrollment and Magnet are applications layered on top of that assignment. Both run through one School Choice form for 2027 to 2028, open now through Tuesday, January 12, 2027, at 3:00 p.m., per Magnet Application Information and the Open Enrollment page.

What does my address decide on its own?

Your zoned elementary, middle, and high school. No application is needed. Look up the address in Zoning Search at ccsd.net/zoning; our Zoning Search guide walks through the lookup and the documents to bring.

The address has to be the parent's or guardian's. The FAQs say a student "may not claim residence while living with an aunt, uncle, sister, brother, or other relative or friend," except as Nevada guardianship law allows. Families living with another household are sent to the Office for Shared Housing for residential affidavit questions: 702 799 8630, 151-SharedHousing@nv.ccsd.net, per the same FAQs.

If no School Choice seat works out, the zoned school is still where your child is assigned.

What Open Enrollment changes

Open Enrollment, formerly Change of School Assignment, lets a family "apply for their student to attend a public school outside the zone of attendance that the student is otherwise required to attend," the FAQs say. Details are in our Open Enrollment guide.

Which schools take Open Enrollment?

Only schools with room. The FAQs say the list is built with the Comprehensive Planning Department from each school's available capacity, current enrollment, projected enrollment, and building use. If a school is missing from the list, it has no space in this round. Magnet programs are never on it: "no Open Enrollment request will be accepted for any magnet school program."

When a school gets more applications than seats, a computerized random lottery picks. A student gets a sibling preference only if a brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister in the same household is already attending and will be enrolled there next year, and only on the first choice, on time application.

After a yes or a no

The bus stays with your address. "CCSD Transportation will NOT be provided for students attending a school on an Open Enrollment (OE) option," per the FAQs. A student who accepts but doesn't enroll by the deadline loses the seat and attends the zoned school.

Acceptance, the one year commitment, the late window, and appeals are in our Open Enrollment guide, and the Administrative School Assignment route for hardship cases is in our transfers guide. If nothing else is accepted, the zoned school remains the assignment.

Does my address matter for a Magnet school?

It matters for two Magnet maps, and neither one is your attendance boundary.

Anyone may apply. "Any student currently residing or planning to reside in Clark County may submit an application to attend a magnet school of their choice," says Magnet Application Information. Elementary and middle school Magnets are interest based. High school programs are criteria based, interest based, or audition based, per Qualification Requirements.

The geographic preference area decides lottery preference, not the bus. A qualified applicant who lives inside a Magnet school's geographic preference area, set by the CCSD Demographics, Zoning, and Geographic Information System Department, gets a preference in the lottery, according to Selection Process. That page lists which schools have one, along with sibling and feeder preferences, and all of them apply only to a first choice, on time application.

The transportation zone decides the bus, not lottery preference. A Magnet student is bus eligible only by living inside that Magnet's transportation zone and more than two miles from the school under CCSD Regulation 3531, per Application Information. A family can be inside the geographic preference area and outside the transportation zone. The zone you can look up today is this year's: the Magnet FAQs say transportation information "is updated yearly" to "reflect the current school year," and that zone adjustments "are not reflected on the transportation website." A family applying for 2027 to 2028 is checking a map that can still change. Check the current maps on magnet.ccsd.net by level (elementary, middle, high school, and career and technical academies), then call the Magnet Schools Department before ranking a Magnet you can only reach by bus.

How a Magnet seat differs from your zoned seat

A Magnet is full time for the whole year. The Magnet FAQs say students "commit to attending the magnet school as their full time assigned school for the entire academic year," and a move back to the zoned school happens only at the end of the year.

Clubs follow the student. Under CCSD Regulation 5132, a Magnet student joins clubs and organizations at the Magnet school, not at the zoned school, the FAQs say. Sports have separate eligibility rules covered in our sports eligibility guide.

There is no application, tuition, or entrance fee, though the FAQs say some programs charge a program fee to enrolled students.

Themes and entry types are in our Magnet parent guide.

Five applications, one yes

Up to five schools or programs in total across Magnet, Open Enrollment, and Central Technical Training Academy, with no more than three in any single category, according to the Open Enrollment page. Application Process says no changes can be made once the deadline passes.

Accepting one seat closes the rest. "Once families have accepted a seat for their child, all other applications (for Open Enrollment and Magnet schools) for that student will be automatically declined," the Open Enrollment page says. The Magnet Application Process page puts it as one invitation, after which the student is removed from all other School Choice alternate and late lotteries. Changing your mind is not automatic. The FAQs say a family that accepted another choice option may appeal to see if the seat is still available, and "Appeals are only accepted within the application timelines." Dates for each step are in our after you apply guide.

Map questions

Demographics, Zoning, and GIS: 702 799 6430. Magnet Schools Department: 702 799 8492, magnetschools@nv.ccsd.net, Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Open Enrollment Department: 702 799 1040. Office for Shared Housing: 702 799 8630. Apply at applyccsd.schoolmint.com.