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• Anticipated 2010-2011 Admissions Summary
  
• Information Tours for Adults
• Private Preschool Admission Procedures

• Public Charter School Admission Procedures

• Charter School Lottery Procedures

Anticipated 2010-2011 Admission Summary

We offered the following types of spaces for the 2010-2011 school year

*Students seeking placement in the immersion program after grade K must pass rigorous academic testing in Spanish in the areas of writing, speaking, listening, and academic vocabulary.

Information Tours for Adults

Tours in English are given by appointment. 2010 public tours are at 9:00 -10:30 a.m. on January 6, February 24, and March 10. Spanish tours are available upon request and by appointment. Please call the school at

919.855.9811 to reserve your space on one of our public tours. If you are unable to visit the school during a public tour, please join us for our Spring Open House in March. No reservations are needed to attend the 2010 Public Open House on Sunday, March 7 from 1-3 p.m.

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, admitted 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

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 August 31), should fill out an application form from this website and submit it to the school with a $400 registration
fee. This fee is non-refundable once your child is accepted into the program.

Casa Esperanza will begin accepting private preschool applications for the following school year beginning December 1.

If you would like to download our application from this website, you will need Adobe Reader or some other PDF reader. If you need to download Adobe Reader for free, click here.

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

Please click here to download our Preschool Contract 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 to fully function in the classroom with peers for the three and-a-half hour daily preschool class period. Please include your $400 registration fee with each application for preschool admission.

Public Charter School Admission Procedures for the 2010-2011 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.

If you would like to download our application from this website, you will need Adobe Reader or some other PDF reader. If you need to download Adobe Reader  for free, click here.

Please click here if you would like to download our Public Charter School Application for grades K-7.

Charter School Lottery Procedures for the 2010-2011 School Year

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 7 on January 5, 2010, and will continue accepting applications through March 22, 2009 for the 2010-2011 school year.

Children will be eligible for admission regardless of race, cultural background, intellectual ability, or physical impairment. To be eligible for kindergarten admission, students must be 5 years of age on or before August 31. See G.S. 115C-364.

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 22, 2010 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 26, 2010 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 22, 2010 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.

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