Admission Policies

Families have the option of applying to any of our Bronx Charter School for Excellence (Bronx Excellence) schools. Enrollment preferences for returning students and their siblings will apply to those students matriculated in Bronx Excellence schools. The admissions policy is below, and applies to all Bronx Excellence schools. 

A lottery process is used to determine admission to each Bronx Charter School for Excellence school. Bronx Excellence 1-5 maintain an open enrollment policy and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. All Bronx Excellence schools accept applications from legal guardians of all age and grade eligible students. All incoming kindergarten students must be the age of five years on or before December 31^st of the year in which they first attend Kindergarten. The annual application submission process begins mid-December and continues through April 1. Applications may be submitted electronically or in hard copy. Online Applications for Bronx Excellence are available in English and Spanish through a link on the school’s website, which leads to the SchoolMint online application site. Translations to additional languages are available by request. The lottery takes place by mid-April, is conducted by an independent third party, and in accordance with NYSED regulations. Public notice of such lottery is provided conspicuously and with sufficient notice.  Applicants who are returning students, have siblings already attending a Bronx Excellence school, and those residing in the host District are given preference in that order for vacancies on a first-come, first-served basis.  Once the list of sibling applicants and host district applicants has been exhausted, we may offer preference to children of employees of the charter school or CMO (up to a 15% set aside). Once the list of returning, sibling, host district, and employee applicants has been exhausted, any remaining spaces are filled through the lottery process.  Applicants will be given the option to enroll their child into any of the Bronx Excellence schools based on available seats.  Once all vacancies are filled through the lottery, a waiting list is created.  Applicants who have siblings already attending a Bronx Excellence school will be given preference for any vacancies that occur during the school year.  Enrollment packets clearly articulate the documentation that must be submitted, to include appropriate proofs of identification, residency, and health records.  Although our marketing and outreach efforts target communities of need, Bronx Excellence does not employ at-risk admissions preferences or a weighted lottery.

Families have the option of applying to Boys Prep, Girls Prep, or Girls Prep II. Enrollment preferences for returning students and their siblings will apply to those students matriculated in those schools. The admissions policy is below, and applies to all three schools. 

A lottery process is used to determine admission to each of the three charter schools. Boys Prep, Girls Prep, and Girls Prep II maintain an open enrollment policy and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. All three charter schools accept applications from legal guardians of all age and grade eligible students. All incoming kindergarten students must be the age of five years on or before December 31^st of the year in which they first attend Kindergarten. The annual application submission process begins mid-December and continues through April 1. Applications may be submitted electronically or in hard copy. Online Applications for the three charter schools are available in English and Spanish through a link on the school’s website, which leads to the SchoolMint online application site. Translations to additional languages are available by request. The lottery takes place by mid-April, is conducted by an independent third party, and in accordance with NYSED regulations. Public notice of such lottery is provided conspicuously and with sufficient notice.  Applicants who are returning students, have siblings already attending Boys Prep, Girls Prep, or Girls Prep II, and those residing in the host District are given preference in that order for vacancies on a first-come, first-served basis.  Once the list of sibling applicants and host district applicants has been exhausted, we may offer preference to children of employees of the charter school or CMO (up to a 15% set aside). Once the list of returning, sibling, host district, and employee applicants has been exhausted, any remaining spaces are filled through the lottery process.  Applicants will be given the option to enroll their child into any of the Bronx Excellence schools based on available seats.  Once all vacancies are filled through the lottery, a waiting list is created.  Applicants who have siblings already attending one of the three charter schools will be given preference for any vacancies that occur during the school year.  Enrollment packets clearly articulate the documentation that must be submitted, to include appropriate proofs of identification, residency, and health records.  Although our marketing and outreach efforts target communities of need, Boys Prep, Girls Prep, and Girls Prep II do not employ at-risk admissions preferences or a weighted lottery.

Stamford Charter School for Excellence (Stamford Excellence) maintains an open enrollment policy and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. Stamford Excellence accepts applications from legal guardians of all age and grade eligible students. All incoming kindergarten students must be the age of five years on or before September 1^st of the year in which they first attend kindergarten[1].  A lottery process is used to determine admission to the school.

The annual application submission process begins mid-December and continues through April 1st for the lottery, and continuously for our waitlist.  Applications may be submitted electronically or in hard copy.  Applications are available in English and Spanish and can be translated to prevailing languages by request.

Returning students and their siblings will receive enrollment preference prior to the lottery, if available.  The lottery takes place in early-April for all remaining seats.  The lottery is generated by an independent, third-party software program in accordance with state regulations and authorizer requirements.  Public notice of such lottery is provided conspicuously and with sufficient notice.  Once the list of returning and sibling applicants has been exhausted, a wait list is generated.  All remaining spaces are filled through the wait list. Siblings of children who did not automatically receive a seat prior to the lottery will be given preference for any vacancies that occur during the school year.  Enrollment packets will clearly articulate the documentation that must be submitted, to include appropriate proofs of identification, residency, and health records, etc.  Although our marketing and outreach efforts target communities of need, Stamford Excellence does not employ at-risk admissions preferences or a weighted lottery.

[1] In PA 23-208, §1(a), the legislature established September 1 as the new cutoff birthdate for children seeking admission to kindergarten beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, and established an assessment process that constitutes the only exception to the September 1 cutoff date. The PA 23-208, §1(a) assessment process for determining the developmental appropriateness of an underage child seeking early admission to kindergarten is not discretionary and must be implemented if requested in writing by a child’s parent or guardian.  https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/sde/digest/2023-24/newkindergartenage_english.pdf