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A common misconception is that students may transfer to a charter school and become immediately eligible for athletics. This is only true for students from schools in their geographic district -- i.e. Gray Collegiate Academy (West Columbia) is listed as part of Lexington School District Two's geographic footprint, thus students from Airport HS (5.8 miles) or Brookland-Cayce HS (6.1 mi) may transfer in high school grades and become eligible and vice versa. However, a student from another school district would have to sit out a year just like any other transfer per SCHSL policy -- i.e. Lexington One's River Bluff HS is only 2.5 miles away from GCA, but since RBHS is LEX1, then that student would have to play JV for a year before eligible for varsity.

Now, a student that chooses to attend GCA from another district (anything other than Lexington Two) and enrolls at Gray as a 9th grader, then that student is eligible for varsity athletics immediately as they established their eligibility at GCA. If a student starts two weeks at another out-of-district school and then transfers as a 9th grader to Gray, then that student would only be eligible for JV that first year.