RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS
-
Students must be a resident of Ohio to attend a Butler Tech Program. All students residing in the State of Ohio and within Butler County or Northwest Local School District who apply to Butler Tech are eligible to participate in the lottery and will be reviewed for residency eligibility. If your student submits an application and resides outside of the career technical planning district, they will receive a notification response titled, “Ineligible Lottery Selection – Outside Career Technical Planning District, please reapply starting March 1, 2023.”
-
Any student in the State of Ohio who resides outside the career technical planning district may apply to any program starting March 1, 2023. If the program is open for placement, the Butler Tech Recruitment Team will request the student’s transcript for review. Once the transcript is received, verified, and reviewed by the Butler Tech program counselor for credit eligibility, the student will receive an offer for the program selected in their application. If the requested program is full, the student will be added to the waitlist and will receive a notification response titled “Waitlist Status” until there are placement openings. The student may select to enroll in another program that has current openings.
CREDIT ELIGIBILITY
-
- Must apply by and have a current transcript submitted to Butler Tech Recruitment Team from their current home school no later than Tuesday, January 31, 2023, to participate in the lottery.
- The transcript must show their status as a current 9th-grade student with one (1) completed semester and be entering their sophomore year starting August 2023, which will be the beginning of their 3rd semester of high school.
- To be considered for lottery eligibility, students should be no more than one (1) credit deficient in core subject courses (excluding health and PE credit) by January 31, 2023, which will be verified through an official or unofficial transcript.
- Students who enroll after the lottery deadline may still apply to enroll in open programs.
-
- Must apply by and have a current transcript submitted to Butler Tech Recruitment Team from their current home school no later than Tuesday, January 31, 2023, to participate in the lottery.
- The transcript must show their status as a current 10th-grade student with three (3) completed semesters and be entering their junior year starting August 2023, which will be the beginning of their 5th semester of high school).
- To be considered for lottery eligibility, students should be no more than two (2) credits deficient in core subject courses (excluding health and PE credit) by January 31, 2023, through an official or unofficial transcript.
- Students who enroll after the lottery deadline may still apply to enroll in open programs.
-
- The student’s home school counselor must complete and sign off on the student’s pathway to graduation plan by Tuesday, January 31, 2023.
- Students will take academic courses at their current high school.
- Lab programs are a year-long commitment. Students must participate in the full-year program. Students cannot participate in Senior Only Labs if they decide to graduate early.
- The Butler Tech Recruitment Team will conduct an additional counselor sign-off review in June 2023 to ensure that the student’s graduation plan is current before the August 2023 school start.
- The student’s home school counselor must complete and sign off on the student’s pathway to graduation plan by Tuesday, January 31, 2023.
-
The Butler Tech Recruitment Team will conduct transcript reviews at the end of the 22-23 school year and before the August 2023 school start to ensure that all students remain credit eligible for enrollment at Butler Tech. Students who are credit eligible at the application deadline but may have significant credit deficiencies after lottery selection upon the second review in May 2023 will receive a notification titled “Credit Eligibility Notification.” The student will be notified throughout the summer to make up any core class credits to remain eligible for placement in August 2023. If the student is not credit eligible by August 2023, the student places their placement in jeopardy and may not be able to enroll in a program at the start of 2023. Parents and students will be notified by the Recruitment Coordinator of the final placement decisions. The Recruitment Coordinator will discuss other options that a student has to enroll at a later time.
PRIORITY PLACEMENT SELECTION
-
The 2022-2023 10th Grade Academy class of students will bypass the lottery selection process and be automatically placed and enrolled into their first-choice program. The student must select and finalize their priority program selection by January 31, 2023. The student cannot be more than two (2) credits deficient in core classes by the start of Junior year, excluding health and PE.
If a current 10th Grade Academy student requests to change their first-choice program after lottery selection and placement, the student will automatically drop their priority status, and placement is subject to availability.
-
The current 10th-grade students in the following Intro to Career Tech courses at Hamilton Career Tech:
Carpentry & Masonry Tech, Sports & Recreational Power Systems, Manufacturing Operations, Management Principles, Nutrition & Wellness, and/or Media Arts Primer.
The Hamilton 10th Grade Intro to Career Tech students (as listed above) may select and finalize their priority program selection by January 31, 2023, for the HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL CAREER TECH CENTER (not D. Russel Lee Campus programs). The student cannot be more than two (2) credits deficient in core classes, excluding health and PE, and the transcript review deadline will occur on January 31, 2023, and again before the August 2023 school start. Once a Hamilton student accepts their priority placement offer, they can not apply to any programs at Butler Tech. However, enrollment in another program is at Hamilton Career Tech, subject to availability after the lottery has been completed.
LOTTERY SELECTION AND PLACEMENT
-
Current 9th, 10th, 11th, Grade Students Applying – Qualified applicants will be chosen randomly, placed in order, and assigned an Official Lottery Number. Students are placed into the remaining program openings as determined by their official lottery number order, then by program selection order of preference and program capacity, as explained below.
-
Students have the option of selecting up to four programs that will be listed as first, second, third, and fourth choices. Once a lottery number is assigned, Butler Tech will attempt to place as many students as possible in their first-choice programs. If a student does not get placed into their first choice, and they have included a second, third or fourth choice, Butler Tech will continue to place students in programs based on program capacity and availability. Second, third or fourth choices will not be considered until all student applicants have been considered for their first choice. Students have five (5) days to accept or decline a spot in their offered program placement. If a student declines 1st choice placement, the Recruitment Team will attempt to contact the parent/guardian by phone or email to inform them and confirm the student’s request to decline their 1st choice placement.
-
After the lottery process concludes and all qualified student placements are finalized, for any remaining program openings, an Open Application process will occur until all programs are filled and closed. The application window re-opens starting March 1st, 2023. This will allow any student who has met credit eligibility after the initial application deadline or students who miss the January 31, 2023 application deadline, or students who reside in the State of Ohio but outside the Butler Tech Career Technical Planning District, etc. into first-come first-serve placement if there are available program openings and there is no waitlist. If not, the student will be added to the waitlist for their 1st choice selected program and contacted directly by the Recruitment and Retention Coordinator if there is an opening.
-
Highly sought-after programs will most likely reach capacity after 1st round placement, and students will be waitlisted until further notice and receive a notification titled “Waitlist Status.” The student may wait for program availability in the order of selection on their application as openings occur. The Recruitment Coordinator will contact parents and students directly when they are next in line for program placement. The student may receive an offer in another program listed on the application. Once you accept your program offer, the student commits to enrollment in that program.
-
Lab-only options may be available in certain circumstances and will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis as different timelines apply depending on the program.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
-
After a student has completed the Butler Tech Application Process and is accepted into a Butler Tech program, notification of acceptance will be sent to the parent/student. Once the student accepts the program offer, the associate school will then be notified of all accepted students.
Each application has the following statement that must be checked before submission:
“I understand final placement for students on an IEP or Section 504 plan will be made after an IEP/504 Team meeting is held to ensure the Team agrees with the placement.”
After selection, if the student receives a placement notification the following will occur:
“For students who receive special education services, an IEP or 504 meeting will be convened this spring at your high school with representatives from the home district, Butler Tech, in addition to the accepted student and his/her guardians. The purpose of this meeting will be to consider appropriate services, accommodations, and support related to the accepted program and the new academic setting. Please be aware that end-of-year transcripts will be reviewed for all students to determine credit eligibility.”
MECHATRONICS APPLICATION AND PLACEMENT REQUIREMENTS
-
In partnership with Sinclair College requirements, the student must:
- Complete the Butler Tech application by January 31, 2023
- Register to Sinclair College
- Receive a Tartan ID Number and Sinclair Username
- Take the Aleks math assessment and receive a score of 31 or above / or receive an ACT math score of 20
- Sinclair College ONLY: the student may re-take the Aleks math assessment a maximum of five (5) times within one year to earn an eligible score for placement.
- Take the Accuplacer (WritePlacer test) and receive a score of 5.
This test may only be taken a total of two (2) times to earn the eligible score for placement.
Sinclair College ONLY: Students who have Assessment scores below college-ready, but within a specific Standard Error of Measure (SEM), may qualify with a 3.0 cumulative GPA or high school recommendation. See your CCP Coordinator for more information.
Placement eligibility is verified after the lottery placement and selection process. Students that do not meet the required Aleks and Accuplacer testing requirements will default into their 2nd choice program so long as there are remaining openings after the lottery concludes; otherwise, the student will be waitlisted until their next program opens. Please refer any Mechatronics application requirements to Penny Osborne, Butler Tech Mechatronics Counselor, at osbornep@butlertech.org or call at 513-645-8211.
10TH GRADE ACADEMY BUSINESS/IT PATHWAY OR BUSINESS APPLICATION PLACEMENT REQUIREMENTS
-
In partnership with Cincinnati State requirements, the student must:
- Complete the Butler Tech Application by January 31, 2023
- Cincinnati State requires a 2.50 GPA (unweighted) ending in their 9th-grade or 2.75 GPA (unweighted) 10th-grade year as part of their enrollment criteria for this specific program.
- Cincinnati State requires a grade of a B or better in their ENGLISH course end-of-year grade as part of their enrollment criteria for this specific program.
- Register with Cincinnati State
Placement eligibility is verified after the lottery placement and selection process. Additional information and conditional acceptance(s) may apply to the placement offer.
Please refer any questions or inquiries about the application or placement process to Tiffany Jones, Recruitment and Retention Coordinator, at jonest@butlertech.org or call 513-645-8332.