Letter from Ms. Brewer to 8th Grade Families
Your child’s results are posted to your online application account. To access the results go to GoCPS portal click ‘Log In’ and log in to your account with your username and password. If you cannot log in to your account, click the “Forgot Password” button on the site.
Deadline to Accept or Decline Offers
The deadline for families to accept or decline offers is Friday, March 6th at 5pm. Please accept your offer preferably by next Friday, February 27th. As the system will inevitably be very busy during that last week. Offers will expire after this date. Only one offer can be accepted but decisions can be changed up until the accept/decline deadline. Accepting an offer will automatically decline all other offers that are open or previously accepted. Learn more about how to accept or decline offers.
Principal Discretion
Principal Discretion is the process that allows Selective Enrollment High School principals to fill a designated number of seats, outside of the regular selection process, based on information provided through Application Packages submitted by students.
The Principal Discretion application period for the 2026-2027 school year opened at 9 am Wednesday, February 18th and ends at 5 pm on March 6th.
The Selective Enrollment High School Principal Discretion Handbook provides step-by-step instructions for submitting a Principal Discretion Application Package and contains the guidelines and requirements for the process.
PLEASE NOTE:
You can accept an offer and still apply to Principal Discretion. In fact, I highly recommend you accept an offer because there’s no guarantee that your child will be accepted via this application. Thus, if you decline an offer and don’t receive a principal discretion seat your child will only be able to attend their neighborhood school.
ALSO NOTE:
None of us here at the school from Ms. Shelton or the other administrators, the teachers, nor myself can access your GoCPS accounts to accept/decline offers. The GoCPS help line is 773.553.2060
FINAL NOTE:
Parents who DID NOT receive any offers I need you to please contact me ASAP so that we can discuss next steps.
As always if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me at or call me directly 773.534.4533.
Mrs. Brewer
Professional School Counselor