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Admissions Procedures 2010-2011
Requirements / Eligibility
Students Who are
Admitted
Waiting List Applicants
Important Dates
Application
Frequently Asked Questions (pdf)
Paul Cuffee
school is a public charter school open to students residing in the
City of Providence. Paul Cuffee School (Kindergarten – 8th grade) is
now nine years old and about to open the Paul Cuffee High School.
This August we will open a 9th grade for the 2010 – 2011 school
year. Every year thereafter, an additional grade will be added until
the school reaches 12th grade in 2013-2014.
In accord with Rhode Island law, students are admitted to the school
through an annual state-monitored open lottery when more students
apply than can be accommodated.
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Requirements/Eligibility
•
Student must be a
resident of Providence.
•
Age requirements: Students must be
5 years old on or before September 1st to enter Kindergarten. Students must be 6
years old on or before September 1st to enter 1st Grade.
• Parents
must complete and submit an application form by the deadline.
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Students Who are
Admitted
• Acceptance letters and a
list of required forms and documentation will be mailed to students
selected immediately following the lottery. Families are required to
turn in the completed forms and documentation within fifteen days to
confirm acceptance. If families do not provide completed forms and
documentation within fifteen days, the student’s admission space may
be given to the next eligible student on the waiting list.
• Students who are admitted will
be required to attend a Welcome and Screening Day in May and a New
Student Orientation in August.
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Waiting List Applicants
• Students
who apply to the school but are not successful in gaining enrollment
through the lottery will be placed on the waiting list in the order
that they were drawn in the lottery.
• Parents
of wait-listed students will be mailed a form to confirm whether or
not they wish for their child to remain on the active waiting list
for the upcoming school year. Parents will have approximately one
month after the date on the notification letter to return the form
to the Admissions Office. Students whose forms are not returned by
the deadline will be removed from the waiting list.
•
In
accordance with the Rhode Island Department of Education enrollment
guidelines for charter schools, waiting lists will not be carried
over from year to year. Each year, a new lottery of all applicants
– those on the previous waiting list as well as all new
applicants – will be conducted. Applicants still on the waiting
list (active waiting list) will be mailed a form to be eligible for
the lottery the following year.
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Important Dates
Dec 1
Begin to accept applications (K – 9)
Feb 2*
Open House (K-8) at the lower school
459 Promenade Street
Providence, RI 02908
Feb 11
High School Open House
Mar 22
Last day to accept applications
Apr 7
Lottery for all grades
Apr 8
Acceptance letters sent out, followed by waiting list letters
May (TBA)
Welcome & Screening for K-8 new students
May – Aug
Families will be called from the active waiting list if spots become
available
Aug (TBA)
Required Summer session for all new 9th graders.
Sept 1*
School begins
* dates may be subject to change
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Application
Paul Cuffee
School is now accepting applications for the 2010-2011 school year for
students entering Kindergarten. Limited spaces are available for grades 1-9.
To download the application,
click here. If you download the application, please mail or bring to the
school. Faxes will not be accepted.
The deadline to apply is March 22, 2010. All
applications received after that date will be placed on the waiting list,
after the lottery, in the order received.
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