EBIA’s open priority application deadline for the 2025 – 2026 school year runs from October 1, 2024 –February 26, 2025 (11:59pm)

At the end of EBIA’s annual open enrollment period (October 1, 2024 – February 26, 2025) EBIA will count all completed applications to determine whether any grade level has received more applications than availability. If the number of students who wish to attend EBIA exceeds our capacity, attendance, except for existing students who are guaranteed admission in the following school year, shall be determined by a public random drawing for each grade level conducted in advance of the academic semester. According to EBIA’s admissions policy, in the case of a public random drawing admission preference shall be given to the following students in the following order.

• Children of EBIA employees, the EBIA Board of Directors, and EBIA Founding Families identified in the initial.
• Children of staff, board, founders will not exceed 10% of total enrollment.
• Siblings of students admitted to, or attending the Charter School.
• Students who are currently enrolled in, and students who reside in, the public elementary school where the Charter School is physically located, will be given an admission preference, with a 5:1 weighting factor, or as otherwise agreed upon with the authoriser.
• Residents of the District participating in the random public drawing will be given a 4:1 weighting factor, or as otherwise agreed upon with the authoriser.

At the conclusion of the public random drawing, all students who were not granted admission due to capacity shall be given the option to put their name on a wait-list according to their draw in the drawing. This wait-list will allow students the option of enrollment in the case of an opening during the current school year. The wait-list DOES NOT carry over to the following school year.

The random public drawing will take place within 21 days of closing the open enrollment period. For the 2024-25 school year, application/drawing forms must be received by February 27, 2024 at 11:59PM, and the lottery will be held on March 5, 2024. EBIA plans to hold the random public drawing at EBIA at 10am on Tuesday 3/5/24. Due to current restrictions, join online via Zoom.

• Before holding the random public drawing, EBIA will communicate how many openings are available per grade level on the EBIA website, eastbayia.org and will communicate that information to all Fall 2024 school applicants.The random public drawing shall draw names from pools of ballots differentiated by grade level.
• Beginning with the highest grade, the ballots shall be drawn by a Charter School administrator or Board
• The drawing shall continue until all names for that grade level are drawn.
• Those individuals whose names are drawn after all spaces have been filled will be placed on the waiting list in the order drawn.
• Potential students on the waiting list shall provide contact information to be used in the event space becomes available, on their application/drawing forms. Families promoted off of the waiting list shall be informed by telephone and in writing and shall have a maximum of seven (7) calendar days to respond. In addition, the Charter School shall attempt on at least two separate occasions to contact the parents/guardians of promoted students by telephone. Those families not responding within the maximum response period will forfeit their right to enroll their student in the Charter School for that school year.
• Applicants need not be present at the random public drawing to enroll.
• Applications received after the close of open enrollment will be added to waitlist after the random public drawing, in order received, and will be contacted for enrollment when the EBIA wait list is exhausted.
• All applicants will be notified of random public drawing results, and results will be posted in the EBIA Schoolmint site
• Applications will also be able to contact EBIA to ascertain an individual student’s status on the waiting list.

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