Nampa Classical Academy
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Enrollment Opportunities
The Board of Directors (BOD) will take the following steps to insure the Nampa community is aware of the enrollment opportunities at Nampa Classical Academy: while taking into consideration the language demographics of the attendance area, at least three (3) months in advance of the enrollment deadline, enrollment information will be posted in highly visible and prominent locations within the Nampa Classical Academy attendance area. In addition, the BOD shall ensure that such process includes the dissemination of press release or public service announcements, to media outlets that broadcast within, or disseminate printed publications within, the attendance area of Nampa Classical Academy; BOD will ensure that such announcements are broadcast or published by such media outlets on not less than three (3) occasions, beginning not later than fourteen (14) days prior to the enrollment deadline each year. Finally, such enrollment information shall advise that all prospective students will be given the opportunity to enroll in Nampa Classical Academy, regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, social or economic status, or special needs.
Enrollment Deadline
Each year the BOD shall establish an enrollment admissions deadline, which shall be the date by which all written requests for admission to attend Nampa Classical Academy for the next school year must be received. The enrollment deadline cannot be changed once the enrollment information is disseminated.
Requests for Admission
A parent, guardian, or other person with legal authority to make decisions regarding school attendance on behalf of a child in this state, may make a request in writing for such child to attend Nampa Classical Academy. In the case of a family with more than one (1) child seeking to attend Nampa Classical Academy, a single written request for admission must be submitted on behalf of all siblings. The written request for admission must be submitted to, and received by, Nampa Classical Academy on or before the enrollment deadline established by the BOD. The written request for admission shall contain the name, grade level, address, and telephone number of each prospective student in a family. If the initial capacity of Nampa Classical Academy is insufficient to enroll all prospective students, then a lottery shall be utilized to determine which prospective students will be admitted to Nampa Classical Academy. Only those written requests for admission submitted on behalf of prospective students that are received prior to the enrollment deadline established by the BOD shall be permitted in the lottery. Only written requests for admission shall be considered by the BOD. Written requests for admission received after the established enrollment deadline will be added to the bottom of the waiting list for the appropriate grade. If there is an opening in one grade, a sibling, if any, from a late submitted application must go to the bottom of the sibling list.
Admission Preferences
The BOD has established an admission preference for students residing in the attendance area of Nampa Classical Academy. In addition, the BOD has established admission preferences for students returning to Nampa Classical Academy, for children of founders, and for siblings of students already selected to attend Nampa Classical Academy.
Priority of Preferences for Initial Enrollment
The selection hierarchy with respect to admission preferences shall be as follows:
- First, to children of founders and is limited to not more than ten percent (10%) of the initial capacity of Nampa Classical Academy.
- Second, to siblings of pupils already selected by the lottery.
- Third, to prospective students residing in the attendance area of Nampa Classical Academy.
- Fourth, by lottery.
Priority of Preferences for Subsequent Enrollment Periods
The selection hierarchy with respect to admission preferences shall be as follows:
- First, to pupils returning to Nampa Classical Academy in the second or any subsequent year of operation. Returning students are automatically enrolled in the appropriate grade and do not need to be selected by a lottery.
- Second, to siblings of pupils already enrolled in Nampa Classical Academy.
- Third, to children of founders and is limited to not more than ten percent (10%) of the capacity of Nampa Classical Academy.
- Fourth, to prospective students residing in the attendance area of Nampa Classical Academy.
- Fifth, by lottery.
Proposed Attendance List for Lottery
Each year the BOD shall create an attendance list containing the names of all prospective students on whose behalf a written request for admission was timely received by Nampa Classical Academy, separated by grade level. In addition, the proposed attendance list shall contain columns next to the name of each student, in which the BOD will designate admission preferences applicable to each prospective student. The columns shall be designated "A" for returning student preference; "B" for founders preference; "C" for sibling preference, with a corresponding cross-reference to each of the siblings of the prospective student; and "D" for attendance area preference.
Equitable Selection Process
If the initial capacity of Nampa Classical Academy is insufficient to enroll all prospective students, or if capacity is insufficient to enroll all prospective students in subsequent school years, then the BOD shall determine the students who will be offered admission to Nampa Classical Academy by conducting a lottery. The selection procedure shall be conducted as follows:
- The name of each prospective student on the proposed attendance list shall be individually affixed to or written on a three by five (3 x 5) inch index card. The index cards shall be separated by grade. The selection procedure shall be conducted one (1) grade level at a time, with the order for each grade level selected randomly. The index cards containing the names of the prospective students for the grade level being selected shall be placed into a single container.
- A neutral, third party shall draw the grade level to be completed first and then draw each index card from the container for that grade level, and such person shall write the selection number on each index card as drawn, beginning with the numeral "1" and continuing sequentially thereafter. In addition, after selecting each index card, the name of the person selected will be compared to the proposed attendance list to determine whether any preferences are applicable to such person.
- If the name of the person selected is a returning student, then the letter "A" shall be written on such index card. If the name of the person selected is the child of a founder, the letter "B" shall be written on such index card. If the name of the person selected is the sibling of another student that has already been selected for admission to the public charter school, then the letter "C" shall be written on such index card. If the name of the person selected resides in the attendance area of the public charter school, then the letter "D" shall be written on such index card.
- With regard to the sibling preference, if the name of the person selected has a sibling in a higher grade who has already been selected, but the person previously selected did not have the letter "C" written on his or her index card (because a sibling had not been selected for admission prior to the selection of the index card of that person), then the letter "C" shall now be written on that person's index card at this time.
- With regard to the founder's preference, a running tally shall be kept during the course of the selection procedure of the number of index cards, in the aggregate, that have been marked with the letter "B". When the number of index cards marked with the letter "B" equals ten percent (10%) of the proposed capacity of Nampa Classical Academy for the school year at issue, then no additional index cards shall be marked with the letter "B", even if such person selected would otherwise be eligible for the founder's preference.
- After all index cards have been selected for each grade, then the index cards shall be sorted for each grade level in accordance with the following procedure. All index cards with the letter "A" shall be sorted first, based on the chronological order of the selection number written on each index card; followed by all index cards with the letter "B", based on the chronological order of the selection number written on each index card; followed by all index cards with the letter "C", based on the chronological order of the selection number written on each index card; followed by all index cards with the letter "D", based on the chronological order of the selection number written on each index card; followed, finally, by all index cards containing no letters, based on the chronological order of the selection number written on each index card.
- After the index cards have been drawn and sorted for all grade levels, the names shall be transferred by grade level, and in such order as preferences apply, to the final selection list.
Final Selection List
The names of the persons in highest order on the final selection list shall have the highest priority for admission to Nampa Classical Academy in that grade, and shall be offered admission to Nampa Classical Academy in such grade until all seats for that grade are filled.
Notification and Acceptance Process
- With respect to students selected for admission to Nampa Classical Academy, within seven (7) days after conducting the selection process, Nampa Classical Academy shall send an offer letter to the parent, guardian, or other person who submitted a written request for admission on behalf of a student, advising such person that the student has been selected for admission to Nampa Classical Academy. The offer letter must be signed by such student's parent, or guardian, and returned to Nampa Classical Academy by the date designated in such offer letter by Nampa Classical Academy.
- With respect to a prospective student not eligible for admission to Nampa Classical Academy, within seven (7) days after conducting the selection process, Nampa Classical Academy shall send a letter to the parent, guardian, or other person who submitted a request for admission on behalf of such student, advising such person that the prospective student is not eligible for admission, but will be placed on a waiting list and may be eligible for admission at a later date if a seat becomes available.
- If a parent, guardian, or other person receives an offer letter on behalf of a student and declines admission, or fails to timely sign and return such offer by the date designated in such offer letter by Nampa Classical Academy, then the name of such student will be stricken from the final selection list, and the seat that opens in that grade will be made available to the next eligible student on the final selection list.
- If a student withdraws from Nampa Classical Academy during the school year for any reason, then the seat that opens in that grade will be made available to the next eligible student on the final selection list.
Subsequent School Years
The final selection list for a given school year shall not roll over to the next subsequent school year. If the capacity of Nampa Classical Academy is insufficient to enroll all prospective students during the next subsequent school year, then a new lottery shall be conducted by the BOD for such school year.
