Dear Prospective Students and Families,
Thank you for your interest in Brooklyn Prospect Charter School. From the start of the admission process, Brooklyn Prospect strives to have a strong collaboration between families and the school. Please note that our school is growing a grade each year. In the fall of 2012 we will open our high school, enrolling 9th grade students, along with grades 6, 7 and 8.
For information about our admissions process, please click on the links of interest below:
1. General admissions Information
2. Prospective Student Information sessions -dates and registration
3. Application /Lottery -Registration and information
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR OUR APRIL 2012
ADMISSION LOTTERY
Oprima aquí para entrar en la lotería de admisiones para nuestro año escolar del 2012-2013
4. Enrollment (including waitlist for the current school year)
5. Admissions Flow Chart and Lottery Process Details:
6. Frequently Asked Questions tab
1. General Admissions Information
IMPORTANT NOTE: A new charter school, we are currently growing a grade each year. During the 2012-13 school year we will enroll only 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students.
ADMISSION FOR OUR 2012-2013 SCHOOL YEAR IS NOW OPEN
THE APPLICATION WILL CLOSE AT 5:00 PM ON APRIL 1, 2012.
To be eligible for admission, students (currently in grades 5, 6, 7, or 8) must complete and submit an application. To complete an application for our admission lottery click on the application link above or below. All completed, submitted applications will be entered in our lottery.
On April 4, 2012 we will hold our annual admissions lottery. At that time, all applicants will be assigned a number based on our random lottery drawing. Seats will be offered to students based on the lottery number assigned to the application. The following students will be assigned preferential lottery numbers.
Admission preferences will be given to:
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Siblings of current Brooklyn Prospect students
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Students who reside in school district 15. To check School District (CSD) please enter your home address at this website: http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/at/f1.jsp.
PLEASE NOTE: Applicants from other districts are welcome to apply. We will first assign lottery numbers to our in-district applicants, then to out-of-district applicants.
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Students who have free or reduced lunch status
In the fall of 2012 Brooklyn Prospect will enroll approximately one hundred (100) sixth grade students, one hundred (100) seventh grade students, one hundred (100) eighth grade students, and one hundred (100) 9th grade students. There will be fewer seats available to new seventh and eighth grade students because our primary intakes are in the sixth and ninth grades.
TOURS of the school will not be offered until after our April 2012 lottery. Tours will be offered in May to parents of admitted students.
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2. Prospective Student Information Sessions:(scroll down to sign up)
Students interested in applying to our middle school (current 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students) and their families for admission to our fall 2012 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, are invited to attend our January 18, 2012 middle school information session. Please be aware that this will be the only middle school informational session before the April 4 lottery.
Current 8th grade students (and their families) interested in applying to Brooklyn Prospect's inaugural 9th grade class should attend our February 28, 2012 high school informational session.
In order to allow space for all interested families, we ask families to please sign up to attend.
CLICK HERE to sign up for our Middle School Information Session on January 18
CLICK HERE to sign up for our High School Information Session on February 28 - *Please note the event has been postponed until March. Please stay tuned with our website for the new date (before our April Lottery)
Sessions will be held at the school facility:
500 Nineteenth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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3. Application / Lottery Registration :
Click here to enter the lottery for admission to our 2012-2013 school year
Oprima aquí para entrar en la lotería de admisiones para nuestro año escolar del 2012-2013
Click here for Mandarin application (PDF) (available soon)
LOTTERY: the Brooklyn Prospect Charter School Lottery will be held on
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 12:00 noon at the school facility:
500 Nineteenth Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215
On-Line Application click here to register for our lottery (Families who do not have access to a computer should work with their elementary school guidance counselors to complete an online application or should call the Brooklyn Prospect main office, 347-889-7041)
4. Enrollment (for the 2011/12 school year)
WAITLIST FOR OUR CURRENT (2010-2011) SCHOOL YEAR: All seats (6th and 7th grades only) at Brooklyn Prospect are currently full. If you would like to add your student’s name to our waitlist, please email admissions@brooklynprospect.org and include: 1) STUDENT’S FULL NAME, 2) DATE OF BIRTH, 3) CURRENT SCHOOL /GRADE, 4)HOME ADDRESS, 5) PARENT PHONE NUMBER, 6) PARENT EMAIL ADDRESS. You may also hand deliver or mail this information directly to the school.
Please be aware of the following:
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Brooklyn Prospect is located in Brooklyn's Community School District 15
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Based on legislation passed in 2007*, all New York City charter schools must give preference to students residing in the School District (CSD) in which the charter school is located. However, students who reside outside of our school district are eligible to apply and may be admitted if space permits
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To exercise district preference, student applicants must reside in school district 15 and must provide proof of district residency. The student's elementary school does not determine middle school district. To check your school district (CSD) please enter your home address at this website: http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/at/f1.jsp
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For our April 2012 lottery, we will only accept applications from students who will enter the 6th,7th 8th and 9th grades in the fall of 2012. The majority of our openings will be in 6th grade and 9th grades.
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Because we are a charter school, signing your student up for Brooklyn Prospect's lottery will not affect the NYC Department of Education (NYC DOE) middle school process. The two processes are separate, and seats can be offered from both Brooklyn Prospect and the NYC DOE concurrently.
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In our lottery we offer sibling preference to students who share a biological parent or a legal guardian with a current Brooklyn Prospect student. If you are currently a Brooklyn Prospect family and wish to enroll a sibling of your BP student, please submit a completed application and send an email (admissions@brooklynprospect.org) no later than March 30, 2012, informing us that you would like to enroll a sibling in the 2012-13 school year.
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We also offer a lottery preference to students who qualify for free and reduced lunch. Applicants exercising this preference must submit proof prior to our lottery.
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If your son or daughter has an IEP, Brooklyn Prospect will work with the student’s Committee on Special Education to accommodate the student and his/her individual learning needs.
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Services are available to support children who are English Language Learners (ELL).
*Amended New York Charter Schools Act of 1998, section 2854(2)(b)
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