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Recruiting
and Admission Cycle
The school will establish an annual recruiting and admissions
cycle, which shall include reasonable time for all of
the following: (1) outreach and marketing, (2) orientation
sessions for students and parents, (3) an admissions application
period, (4) an admissions lottery, if necessary, and (5)
enrollment. The school may fill vacancies or openings
that become available after this process using either
a waiting list .
The school will admit students at any time during the
school year when "openings"
are available in order to better serve the transient
local population.
Lottery – Public Random Drawing
In the event that the number of students seeking admission
to any grade or class exceeds capacity, a lottery will
be held. It will be completed by pulling slips of paper
with applicants’ names on them out of a container,
and the drawing will be held in a public forum. All eligible
names will be drawn from the container and those exceeding
the number of available spaces will be placed on a waiting
list in the order drawn. UPA may grant priority in admissions
to current students and residents of the Santa
Clara County , as provided
in current law. The school may also grant admission preference
to children of school founders, siblings, and children
of staff and board members, provided that students admitted
under any such preference shall not constitute more than
10% of the school's total enrollment. If greater than
10% of the school’s total enrollment
seeks admission in a given year via a preference, an
initial lottery will be conducted to select up to 10%
of those seeking admission via preference. Following
this lottery, those not selected via the preference lottery
will be placed in the general lottery with the general
applicant pool.
After the lottery, families will receive their official
enrollment forms and will be informed of the enrollment
process. If the number of applications does not
exceed the number of spaces in the school there will
be no lottery, and all students who submitted qualified
applications will be enrolled.
Currently-enrolled students will not participate in the
random drawing, as they are automatically reserved a space
for the following year.
Admission will
not be based on prior student performance or admission testing
Post matriculation, various assessments may be administered
to determine the students’ readiness for the grade
of entrance requirements or maintenance of said grade. These
instruments aid in the development of individualized learning
plans for children. Children who are working below grade
level or simply need a little extra help will be required
to attend programs such as, summer school, after school
classes, and academic support classes, designed to remediate
any academic deficiencies. University Preparatory Academy
will be non-sectarian in its programs admissions policies,
employment practices, and all other operations, shall not
charge tuition, and shall not discriminate on the basis
of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, or disability.
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