Opportunity Scholarship Program

The Opportunity Scholarship Program is a school choice program created by the Florida Legislature in the 1999 Legislative Session as part of the A+ Education Plan. The program offers students who attended or who were assigned to attend failing public schools the option to choose a higher performing public school.

OSP Eligibility Requirements:
A public school student's parent may request and receive from the state an Opportunity Scholarship for the student to enroll in and attend a higher performing public school if:

By assigned school attendance area or by special assignment, student spent the prior school year in attendance at a public school that has been designated as earning a grade "F" or three consecutive "Ds" as based on the statewide assessments conducted pursuant to Section. 1008.22, Florida Statutes.

The student has been in attendance elsewhere in the public school system and has been assigned to such school for the next school year; or
The student has been assigned to such school for the next school year.