The Institute for Excellence Charter School

A charter school must be open to all students on a space-available basis. If there is a greater number of qualified applicants who seek enrollment than there are spaces available, the charter school is required to use a random selection process (lottery). The lottery is one that places all eligible applicants per grade level into one pool and then selects applicants in a nondiscriminatory manner. This process must be activated during each enrollment period when the number of eligible applicants exceeds the number of enrollment slots available for a grade level.

Preference is given to students from the district of residence or region of residence before non-resident students may be admitted.

The charter school may not discriminate in its admission policies or practices on the basis of intellectual or athletic ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, status as a handicapped person, proficiency in the English language or any other basis that would be illegal if used by a district board of education. The charter school’s admissions policy must, to the maximum extent practicable, seek the enrollment of a cross-section of the community’s school-age population including racial and academic factors.

A charter school develops a waiting list to identify the names of grade-eligible students with applications to a charter school pending acceptance for the subsequent school year based upon the order of random selection from a lottery following a recruitment period. The waiting list begins with the close of the annual initial recruitment period and first random selection process and ends with the close of the school year. The waiting list is divided into students from the district of residence or region of residence and students from non-resident districts. During recruitment periods, a charter school must notify parents that their children’s names remain on the waiting list for enrollment for the school year.

Please fill out a copy of the *form(s) and fax it to 609.561.9418 or mail it to our mailing address: The Institute for Excellence Charter School, 41 South Route 73, Hammonton, NJ 08037.