Admission Policy and Procedure
Tułen Charter School shall enroll all eligible students who submit a timely application, unless
the number of those applications exceeds the capacity of the program, class, grade level, or
building. In the event of an excess of those applications, students will go on a waiting list. The
charter school and the APC may attempt to accommodate all of those applicants in the future
by considering providing additional classroom space and hiring additional staff to meet the
increased demand. If it is not possible within the building to accommodate all eligible students
who submit an application, students shall be accepted by random drawing until capacity is
reached.
Enrollment and Waitlist Numbers
Tułen Charter School recruitment will consist of dissemination of information about the
school and its offerings through advertisements in print and online news outlets, as well as
social media.
Enrollment Priorities:
- Previously enrolled students who are in good standing in the Kenaitze Head Start
program, Yaghanen K-12 after school program, and Tułen Charter School - Children of TCS employees, APC members and/or siblings of students previously
enrolled in Tułen Charter School - Children and grandchildren of APC approved language/culture experts/volunteers
- Other students
In the event there is more interest than available slots after the enrollment priorities are
honored, a lottery system will be employed.
Families interested in enrolling their children in the school will be encouraged to submit
their application (student names and grade levels) for entrance to the school by the last
business day of January each year. The APC will determine the best option for an
independent lottery program, with SchoolMint as a potential platform (due to its ability to
sync with PowerSchool and work with early childhood education programs). Dependent
upon the program selected, the following procedure will be put in place. On the 5th business
day of February, each student will be assigned a random number by a random number
generator. The mechanism for a lottery will be sorting those random numbers. The lowest
number will receive the first student enrollment and will continue to higher numbers until all
openings are filled. In the event there are more students than available slots, a waiting list
will be compiled with the remaining numbers, in order from lowest to highest, selected to fill
those open slots as they become open. The students selected for openings (associated with
those numbers) will be notified in writing within 5 business days of the lottery date. In the
event there are more slots available then students, the recruitment and lottery for
additional students will be held again before the last day in May and again in the first two
weeks in August. Following the start of the school year, assuming there are open slots and
no students on the waiting list, the school will have open enrollment until capacity is
reached.
Following the selection process, students will enroll at Tułen Charter School using a
centralized enrollment system through KPBSD.