Ross Valley Charter is open to all children who reside in California and are eligible to enter Kindergarten or Transitional Kindergarten through 5th grade. Transitional Kindergarten is open to children who will have their fifth birthday on September 2^nd through December 2^nd. Kindergarten is open to children who will be five years old by September 1^st.

If more applications are received than there are spaces available for any particular grade level, admission will be determined by random public lottery.

We are still discussing with our authorizer having additional preferences for siblings and for English Learners and Free and Reduced Price Lunch students but those decisions will not be finalized for this enrollment period.

We are awaiting a decision from the State Board of Education to allow us to prioritize sibling applicants in future lotteries. The way we are proposing that this works is that if siblings are applying in the same year and there is a lottery, when one child is drawn and admitted, the sibling(s) will be admitted as well.

Yes. Applications received after the Open Enrollment deadline will continue to be accepted in a new enrollment period and subsequent lotteries will be scheduled as needed.

For the 2017 school year, we are carrying over our entire admitted and wait lists from 2016 since we did not start school as hoped in 2016. But after June of 2018, waitlist positions from one academic year shall not carry over to any other academic years. Any applicant who was not offered admission in one academic year, and who wishes to reapply to RVC in the future, must submit a new application for the new academic year by the posted Open Enrollment deadline.

No. Once a student has been admitted to RVC and has completed the application paperwork, they are enrolled until they graduate.