My city had a school choice program. Your local school was required to accept you, but out of dustrict schools were free to impose additional restrictions. Most

My city had a school choice program. Your local school was required to accept you, but out of dustrict schools were free to impose additional restrictions. Most used a lottery, but a few (at least 1 I waa considering) would look at at an applicants grade and test scores and make an admission decision based on that.