I didn’t find the Florida k-12 schools that great. We moved from California to Florida when my kids were in high school and the quality of the schools just wasn’t as good. We were supposedly in the ‘best’ district in Florida (but yeah, they all claim to be the best).
Which states only need one year residency? Thinking about Gap Year if my son doesn’t get a good deal anywhere.
Texas. Let me put in a plug for Texas. UT is a great school, of course, but A&M is also attractive, and some of the branches of these two schools are also quite good, such as UTSA. The quality of public education in Texas is variable, but you can find good schools and districts everywhere.
However, I have read on these forums that some Texas school districts’ evaluation of transfer credit for incoming high school transfer students tends to be unfavorable in terms of weighting for GPA used in class rank, since the parents of students already in the district do not want incoming transfers to push their kids down in class rank that is the primary factor in Texas public university admissions.
Florida has a one year residency. Many schools do. If the parent moves immediately after h.s. graduation and immediately establishes residency, the student should be a resident by the following fall, or about 14 months later. It’s all in the timing.
Probably most states have one year waiting periods to establish residency for tuition purposes, though the student *and parents/i need to do various things that indicate residency in that state.
However, this means that moving to a different state during 12th grade would mean having residency in neither the old state nor the new state for the academic year immediately after high school graduation.
Also, states vary on whether the student may retain residency after starting undergraduate study after the parent moves away. Some have a rule where a student who graduates from high school in the state after a sufficient amount of attendance in the past retains residency even if the parent moves away.