Enrollment Requirements:
The primary requirement for admission to the school is the timely submission of an enrollment application by the stated deadline. Upon approval by AASD, special education students who apply by the deadline will be admitted to the admission process.  If more applications are received than places are available, a lottery (held with both CCSA and AASD representatives present) will determine enrollment and waiting list order.   Twins (or multiples) at the same grade level will be assigned concurrent priority in the lottery draw.

a. 1st Priority.  Priority will be given to applicants with siblings who were students of the Classical School the previous year, and who will remain students;    children of Classical School staff members who are employed at Classical School at the time of the lottery; children of CCSA Board members who are serving on the board at the time of the lottery.

b. 2nd Priority:  Twenty-five percent of spaces available will be reserved for students who qualify for free or reduced school lunch. 

c. 3rd  Priority.  Priority will be given to students transferring from an official Core Knowledge school and who will be enrolled in grades 1 - 8. the following school  year. 

Classical School shall not discriminate in admissions; deny participation in any program or activity on the basis of a student’s sex, race, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, physical, mental, emotional or learning disability. 

AASD students who graduate from eighth grade at Classical School may attend their neighborhood school or may choose among Appleton High Schools East, West, or North (unless overcrowding – defined as 115% of capacity or higher – exists at a school which is not the students’ AASD neighborhood school). Students must declare which high school they will attend by January 1 during the eighth-grade year. 

Standard Enrollment Procedures: 
Applications must be received in the Classical School office between November 1st and January 15th of the school year prior to enrollment to be included in the lottery drawing. For example, if you are enrolling for the 2011-2012 school year, applications will be received between November 1, 2010 and January 15, 2011.  Applicants will be notified by February 1 of enrollment status.  Enrollees are required to accept/decline enrollment by the end of February.  A student may not be enrolled at Classical School and another AASD school at the same time.

Openings will be filled by lottery drawing and not on a first-come/first-serve basis.  Waiting list spots will be determined by lottery drawing as well. Applications that are received after January 15th of the school year prior to enrollment are accepted if we have openings, or are added to the waiting list in the order in which they are received.

IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF THE AASD SCHOOL DISTRICT, you still need to apply to the Classical School during our application timeline. However, you will also need to apply for open enrollment in order to be eligible to attend the Appleton Area School District.  Out of district open enrollment begins Monday, February 6th and ends at 4:00pm on Friday, April 30th. Please be aware that due to recent legislation passed, the open enrollment period has been extended.  Information about out of district guidelines is located on the AASD webpage. To access this information, go to the home page www.aasd.k12.wi.us, click on the Parent link, and then click on the Open Enrollment link, located on the left hand side of the page.  Applications must be submitted on the DPI form.  The application will be available online beginning on February 6th and the DPI is strongly encouraging this process.  The DPI Open Enrollment Online Application will be located at their website https://www.dpi.wi.gov/sms/psctoc.html. If you live outside of the Appleton Area School District, have applied to attend Classical School, and missed the Open Enrollment window, you may not apply to Classical School (or any other public school) until the following year (following the guidelines and procedures of open enrollment). 

WAITING LIST - The waiting list does not roll over from year to year.   One must reapply each year until one is accepted.  Students who are enrolled in Classical School, do not need to reapply each year. We will continue to fill openings from the waiting list that occur during the school year through the end of the first semester for kindergarten and through April 30th for students in grades 1 - 8.  (Please note: New students are required to be physically present in class by the first day of the second semester for kindergarten and by April 30the for grades 1 - 8.)

If your student is on the waiting list, you are encouraged to visit the school during the current school year and read all available materials so that you may make an informed decision quickly if or when your child’s name is called from the waiting list.   Enrollment offers not accepted by the deadline set forth in the offer shall be deemed to be declined. 

Please do not be discouraged if your child ends up on the waiting list - even if he or she has a high number.  While we cannot guarantee enrollment, it is not at all uncommon for us to go through the entire waiting list for a certain grade level each year.  We have had many cases of parents who dropped their child from the waiting list thinking he or she would not get called, and missed their chances of getting accepted when that number came up from the waiting list.