Application and Lottery Preferences

Application Process and Lottery Preferences

Important Notes

• All applications must be submitted in person by a parent or guardian on or before February 29, 2012.

How to Apply

• Applications for the 2012-2013 school year for the Performing and Fine Arts Academy are now available!  You may come by the Charter school office to pick one up or download a copy (please see PDF application available for download below). If you choose to download your application, be certain that all pages are accounted for (there should be a total of 19 pages).
• A complete application contains 19 pages including the cover letter. All 19 pages must be returned with the appropriate documentation to the Charter office on or before the last school day of February.
• Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

Lottery Preferences

The public random drawings shall be conducted in stages in accordance with the following preferences in the priority order listed below. These preferences are authorized in accordance with applicable law.

• Priority 1: Students currently attending the specific program shall be automatically re-enrolled for the following year.
• Priority 2: Children of NCS Full-Time Employees and/or current Board of Directors and elected Advisors to the Board.
• Priority 3: Applicants for the Performing and Fine Arts Academy who score in the top 15% of audition criteria.
• Priority 4: Siblings of students who currently attend the same  program to which the applicant is applying, who reside in the District.
• Priority 5: Siblings of students who currently attend any NCS program, who reside in the District.
• Priority 6: Siblings of NCS alumni who successfully completed the same NCS program,who reside in the District.
• Priority 7: Students currently enrolled in NCS who have successfully completed the previous full school year in a NCS program other than the program for which the applicant applied, who reside in the District.
• Priority 8: Siblings (or children) of NCS alumni who successfully completed any other NCS program for which the applicant applied, who reside in the District.
• Priority 9: Students on the wait list from the previous year (who submitted an application during the application period) for the same program for which the applicant applied, who reside in the district
• Priority 10: All other applicants residing within the NUSD.
• Priority 11: Siblings of students who currently attend the same NCS program to which the applicant is applying, who reside outside of the District.
• Priority 12: Siblings of students who currently attend any NCS program, who reside outside of the District.
• Priority 13: Siblings (or children) of NCS alumni who successfully completed the same NCS program, who reside outside of the District.
• Priority 14: Students currently enrolled in NCS who have successfully completed the previous full school year in a NCS program other than the program for which the applicant applied, who reside outside of the District.
  
• Priority 15: Siblings of NCS alumni who successfully completed any other NCS program from the NCS program for which the applicant applied, who reside outside of the District.
• Priority 16: Students on the waitlist from the previous year (for students who submitted an application during the open application period) for the same program for which the applicant applied, who reside outside of the district.
• Priority 17: All other out -of -district applicants.

If an application has been intentionally misrepresented, the application shall be invalidated. Upon notice, the applicants will, however, be granted an opportunity to respond within 5 school days.