Enrollment for the 2010-2011 REACH School Academic Year
Important Dates:
Enrollment Notifications to Applicants Completed: March 5, 2010
Enrollment Lottery (if required): February 26, 2010
The application process for REACH Charter School will follow California Education code for Charter Schools and the provisions included in the school's charter as approved by Sebastopol Union School District and the State Board of Education.
Choosing the REACH Charter School is a choice for a particular approach to education. The REACH School believes that children learn best when parents are supportive participants in the educational team of student, teacher, and parent. It is essential that the needs, expectations, and values of applicants' parents are a good match with the school's educational program. The steps of the application process are designed to help families and teachers determine if the REACH School is the right educational option for each child. Those steps are:
Application Process
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Complete and submit the written Application for Admission with requested supporting documents during the designated open enrollment period. Applications are accepted for the 2010/2011 school year beginning January 4 through January 29, 2010.
2010-2011 REACH School Application
- Application for Admission
- Educational History and Goals Questionnaire
- Sebastopol Union School District Application
- Sebastopol Union School District Supplemental Information request
- Enrollment Policy
- After your application is received, you will be contacted to schedule a family conference and interview with the REACH School Director and staff. The family interview is intended to allow the family and the potential teacher to get to know each other, to clarify student and parent expectations, and to help insure that The REACH School is a good educational match for each child. Bring a creative product of the students to share.
- Schedule an optional student Shadow day.
- Following the open enrollment period, a determination is made as to whether the number of eligible applicants exceeds the number of available spaces for each class. An eligible applicant is defined as one whose parent or parents have attended a family conference/interview and submitted a completed application packet prior to the completion of the designated open enrollment period for that year.
Should more students wish to enroll in a grade than space allows, REACH will conduct grade-specific lotteries as required by law. Tickets with eligible applicants' names will be drawn randomly, and a number assigned to each applicant. Enrollment in the class will then be allocated according to available space, lottery number, and the enrollment priorities shown below.
- students currently attending The REACH Charter School;
- siblings of students already attending The REACH Charter School;
- children of REACH School teachers and founders. This preference will be applied to no more than 10% of student slots. A founder is defined as any parent involved in the founding of the school that volunteered 200 hours toward the creation of the school. Families who have volunteered between 75 and 199 hours may qualify as founders if the available founder spots (as defined by the 10% figure) have not been filled. In this case, we will admit, in descending order, those families who have volunteered highest number of hours under 200;
- students seeking to change schools under the public school choice provisions of ESEA Title I;
- students residing within the territorial jurisdiction of the Sebastopol Union School District, and;
- all others.
Applicants are placed on a waiting list within each priority category in the order of their lottery ticket number. Available spaces will be offered by order on the waiting list within each priority category, first to applicants in the #1 priority group, then the #2 priority group, then the #3 priority group, etc. Applicants not offered spaces remain on the waiting list only for the school year for which they applied and are contacted if space becomes available during that school year. - Successful applicants will be notified by email, mail, or telephone within five business days that they are being offered a placement at The REACH School. Following this notification, families must sign and return the Enrollment Acceptance form and the Parent and Student Contract form. Applicants need to respond within five business days and deliver, in writing, their acceptance of the placement. If acceptance is not received in writing by the deadline, the placement will be offered to another applicant. Registration of the student should be completed within five business days following acceptance of a placement.
Applications Received After Open Enrollment
Those who apply after the open enrollment period, will be eligible for available spaces if/when there are no names on the open enrollment waiting lists. Applications will be evaluated on a first come first served basis.
