High School Eligibility Information

• Student must be a regularly enrolled member of the school’s student body.
• Student must participate at the school to which he/she is assigned by the local board of education.
• A student may not have two residences for eligibility purposes

• Students who are enrolled in Virtual Academy are eligible to participate in athletics at their residential school.

• NCHSAA	WS/FCS
  School assignment is based on the residence of the parent or legal custodian within the administrative unit.	School assignment can be based on the residence of a person who presents a valid “caregiver affidavit.”
  In the event the parents are separated or divorced, the residence of the student shall be that of the parent to whom custody has been awarded by a court of competent jurisdiction. If no custody order has been entered, the residence shall be deemed to be that of the parent with whom the student begins the school year (i.e. 1st semester).*	If no order has been entered, residence can be established with either parent.
  Documents purporting to establish guardianship or custody issued by a notary public, an attorney, a clerk of court, or any entity other than a court of record with competent jurisdiction will not be accepted.	School must accept a valid caregiver affidavit for enrollment and decision-making purposes.

  These differences mean that a student could be properly enrolled in the school, but ineligible to play sports at that school under NCHSAA enrollment guidelines!

A student who elects to transfer from one WS/FC school to another WS/FC school after receiving his or her 9th grade school assignment must sit out from athletic participation for 365 days from the date of transfer.

Exceptions:

•Students who receive a transfer during the approved Choice transfer period. 

•Students who have a bona fide change in residence within the WS/FC schools.  (These students will be ineligible for athletic participation only for the remainder of the sports season during which they transferred.)

Not Exceptions:

•Students who transfer through a special transfer request during the school year.

•Students who return to their “home school” after receiving a transfer to a different school.

These students are ineligible for 365 days.

NCHSAA academic and attendance requirements must be meet. 

https://www.nchsaa.org/eligibility-presentations-forms-policies