Historically, children typically attended the school closest to their home (`neighbor- hood school'). Today, in some US school districts, children can enroll in a school choice program, attending a `magnet school' instead of the closest neighborhood school. We aim to explore interactions between school choice and school commute mode, especially walking and cycling. Given the increasing prominence of both types of initiatives (school choice and SR2S), improved understanding of this topic can help researchers, practitioners, government and school officials, and the general public understand the impacts of specific school policies on transportation. This topic is set against a backdrop of declining school budgets, rising transportation costs, and heightened attention.
