Admissions Procedures

In our public charter school, we currently have no openings. In our private preschool, we currently have no openings.

Information Tours for Adults in English are given twice a month on specific Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9:00-11:00 a.m. by appointment. Please check the school calendar on this website for specific dates. Spanish tours are available upon request and by appointment. Please call the school at 919.855.9811 to schedule a tour.

Adults attend information tours without their children so they may make an adult observation of the educational program.  Children are not admitted to classrooms during tours. After enrollment, students are invited to a special "get acquainted" tour of the school at the end of the year to learn their way around the school before summer vacation begins. 

Private Preschool Admission Procedures for the 2008-2009 school year

Parents interested in making application to the private preschool program for their preschool-age child (age 36 months old before the first day of school through 5 years old after October 16), should fill out an application form from this website and submit it to the school with a non-refundable $50 application fee. Casa Esperanza will begin accepting private preschool applications for the 2008-2009 school year on November 1, 2007.

If you would like to download our application from this website, you will need Adobe Acrobat. If you need to download Adobe Acrobat for free, click here.

Once your download is finished, please click here to download our 2008-2009 Preschool Application for students ages 3-5.

In order to be considered for admission, preschool children should be completely toilet trained, able to dress themselves with minimal adult assistance, and able to successfully separate from parents for the three and-a-half hour daily preschool class period. Please include your $50 application fee with each application for preschool admission.

Public Charter School Admission Procedures for the 2009-2010 school year: Parents who wish to enroll their child in the elementary charter school upon completion of the preschool program must make a new application for their child; that application will be used to enter the child in the Charter School Admission Lottery process for the child's kindergarten year (the third year of Montessori Children's House). There is no application fee for charter school admission.

In accordance with Montessori philosophy and North Carolina State Law, Casa Esperanza Montessori provides admission policies that allow all children the chance to gain admission. Casa Esperanza will begin  accepting charter applications for grades K to 6 on January 5, 2009, and will continue accepting applications through March 23, 2009 for the 2009-2010 school year.

Children will be eligible for admission regardless of race, cultural background, intellectual ability, or physical impairment.

Admission to the Casa Esperanza Charter School Program is determined by our annual lottery. In accordance with  North Carolina charter admissions statutes , which may be referenced by clicking on the following website,  preference is given to the following groups in the order listed: children of the school's principal, teachers and teacher assistants; and children who already have siblings who were admitted to the school  in a previous charter year.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_115C/GS_115C-238.29F.pdf

Additional applications for admission will be received through March 23, 2009 up to 3:30 pm.

1. Applications will be sorted by age.
2. Notice of the impending lottery will be advertised one month prior to lottery date.
3. The lottery process will occur on March 27, 2009 at 4:00 pm, will be accomplished by computer, and will be witnessed by at least one member of the Board.
4. Children will be ordered on the appropriate age list in ascending order of random number, with preference given first to children of staff members and second to siblings.
5. Children will be assigned to available enrollment openings according to listed order.
6. Any remaining children will be assigned in their lottery order to an age appropriate wait list.
7. Parents/guardians will be notified in writing of enrollment opening and asked to commit or decline within seven calendar days from receipt of notification.
8. Declining children will be replaced with next child on the appropriate age wait list, and their parents/guardians will be contacted in writing.
9. All applications received after 3:30 pm on March 23, 2009 will be added to the appropriate wait list. If space in the program becomes available, children are offered spaces according to the lottery number they have been assigned.

The admission process for Charter School Students is independently and publicly verifiable for fairness and compliance with written procedure.