Promise Academy

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Enrollment Process

Who’s eligible?

Promise Academy is open to any student ready to enter kindergarten or first grade and is currently attending or zoned to attend a school that is on the statewide “low-performing-school” list. Although the Board of Trustees is planning to serve primarily students that reside in the Memphis City School District area, Promise Academy will accept applications from across the state, as required by the Tennessee Charter School Law.

Lottery:

The Promise Academy will enroll all eligible students who submit a timely application, unless the number of applications exceeds the capacity of the school. If the number of applications by eligible students exceeds the capacity of the Promise academy at any enrollment date, a lottery will be used to determine admission, and the following preferences shall apply:

1. Students in attendance in the previous school year at any public school that converts to become a public charter school.

2. Students attending public schools within the North Memphis area where Promise Academy is located.

3. Children residing within the North Memphis area where Promise Academy is located, but who are not enrolled in public schools.

4. Children residing outside of the North Memphis area where Promise Academy is located whose needs would be included in the focus of Promise Academy.

Admission decisions will be made by the process described above on the date set by the Board of Trustees. While we would like to be able to offer a place in our school to every student who applies, we are unable to do so. Therefore, even though you submit an application, your child is not guaranteed admission to Promise Academy.

Parent/guardians will be notified by mail of each child’s admission status, and will have fourteen (14) calendar days after the postmarked date on the notification to return a signed enrollment registration card for each child offered enrollment, or signed waiting-list applicant card for waitlisted children. If no form has been returned by the two-week deadline, the child’s admission space or waiting-list order will be given to the next eligible candidate.

Admissions Policy:

To complete the admission process, the parent/guardian of the student must provide:

1. Proof of residence within the Chartering Authority or proof of eligible non-resident status for space available consideration;

Examples:

Student’s birth certificate indicating student’s name and parent/guardian’s name, Insurance document indicating student’s name and parent/guardian’s name, or Legal guardianship documentation.

2. Proof of guardianship:

Examples, utility bill with parent/guardian’s name, home telephone bill with parent/guardian’s name, authentic mortgage statement/ rental lease with parent / guardian’s name.

*If you are unable to provide one of the three above, three other proofs of residence will be accepted (example, one cellular phone bill indicating address, one bank statement indicating address or one W-2 form indicating address).

3. Proof of minimum age.

4. A completed application form and signed Family Accountability Contract.