Application for Admission
Eastern University Academy Charter School
3 Falls Center Suite 2
3300 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19129
Attn: Weslie Holland
215-848-2561 (fax)
The deadline for completed applications was March 31, 2009.
We will continue to accept applications until all openings are filled. After all vacancies are filled, we place students on an active waiting list for the current academic year only. Those who wish to be placed on a waiting list for the next academic year must re-apply. Please be advised that Eastern University Academy Charter School is required to select students by independent lottery when applications exceed the number of openings.
Any misstatement, failure to disclose or inaccurate information provided in the application may be grounds for revoking the child's admission to the school.
Application Process
Complete our application and mail or fax to Eastern University Academy via the instructions below.
Please note: it is your responsibility to make sure that you sign the Release of Records form(s), part(s) 5 (and 6, if applicable), and provide one or both forms to your school. Your guidance counselor should then attach the appropriate records to the form(s), and send them directly to Eastern University Academy Charter School - without this information your application will be incomplete.
Completed application must be submitted by March 31, 2009 to be considered for the lottery and/or acceptance.
One you have been accepted or chosen by lottery, you will be invited for an interview with an advisor, or Eastern University Academy staff member. You will receive a letter in the mail informing you of the meeting location, date and time.
After preliminary acceptance, you should mail or fax your final report card as proof of completion of your current grade.
All incoming students will be required to attend a Summer Orientation in late July and/or early August. All students and parents will be required to attend a New Family Orientation Night prior to the start of school in August.
Admissions Process
The charter school will be open to all resident children in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If more students apply to the charter school than the number of attendance slots available, then students will be selected on a random basis (a lottery) from applications received by our deadline. However, preference will be given in enrollment to a child of a parent who has actively participated in the development of the charter school and to siblings of students presently enrolled in the charter school. Also, first preference will be given to students who reside in the School District of Philadelphia.
Lottery
If the number of completed applications exceeds the slots available in each grade, a lottery will be conducted to determine who will be admitted to the school and, if they are not admitted, what spot they will occupy on the waiting list. Anyone who applies after the lottery has been conducted will be added at the end of the waiting list on a first-come, first-served basis.
Re-enrolment After Year One
After our first year of operation and in all subsequent years, all students currently enrolled in the charter school will be eligible for readmission. Parents or guardians will merely have to fill out a form, which will be sent home to each family, indicating their desire to re-enroll their child(ren) in the school. If a parent or guardian fails to submit this form by the published deadline EUACS will assume that they do not wish to re-enroll their child(ren) for the next school year.
Non-discrimination Policy
In accordance with § 17-1723-A of the Charter School Law, the Eastern University Academy Charter School will not discriminate in its admissions policies or practices on the basis of intellectual ability, athletic ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, status as a person with a disability, proficiency in the English language, or any other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district. Also, the school will not discriminate in its admissions policies on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or political affiliation. Our admissions policies and practices will be blind and nondiscriminatory.
Legal counsel for the charter school has reviewed all outstanding orders and requirements concerning desegregation and has advised the applicant that the admissions policy required in Act 22 (i.e. a lottery) will not violate any desegregation order or exacerbate segregation given the racial diversity of the likely student population.
