High School Equalized Assignment Results Announced on the 28th at 2 PM

The Gyeonggi Province Office of Education announced on the 27th that it will release the results of the 2005 academic year high school equalized assignment for five school districts on the 28th at 2 PM.

The number of students assigned is 12,039 in Suwon, 10,111 in Seongnam, 10,911 in Anyang, 10,127 in Bucheon, and 9,029 in Goyang, totaling 52,217 students. Individual assignment notification letters will be distributed to each student.

In four school districts—Suwon, Seongnam, Goyang, and Anyang (including Gwacheon, Gunpo, and Uiwang)—students apply for five high schools in order of preference within their school district, followed by lottery selection. In three school districts—Suwon, Seongnam, and Goyang—schools will give priority assignments to up to 50% of each school's capacity, while in the Anyang school district, this applies to up to 40%.

For students not assigned in this first-stage lottery within their school district's preferred schools, a second-stage lottery is held by zone divisions (Suwon: 2 zones, Seongnam: 2 zones, Goyang: 2 zones, Anyang: 4 zones), and all remaining students are assigned to schools near their residence.

In the Bucheon school district, 100% assignment occurs in the first stage without a second-stage zonal assignment.

An official from the Provincial Office of Education stated, "The first-choice assignment rate increased to 82.1% from the previous year, up 6.6 percentage points, while the last-choice assignment rate decreased to 1.1%, down 0.6 percentage points from the previous year. This shows that preference for specific high schools is declining year by year. This year, only Maetan High School in Suwon has been newly established (construction completed), so there should be no incidents like the 'Chunghun High School controversy' of last year, which was caused by opening schools while still under construction."