Vida Charter School

Our first enrollment date is set for February 25- that means your best chance to reserve a seat for the 2010-2011 school year is now!

Vida Charter School is now accepting applications for Spring 2010 and the 2010 - 2011 school year.

The Spring 2010 and 2010-2011 enrollment forms for grades K, 1, 2, 3, and 4 are currently available to parents who would like to apply. Vida Charter School will not discriminate in its admission policies or practices on the basis of intellectual ability or 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. However, if enrollment exceeds space available, a lottery will be held. 

Click here to download an English or Spanish registration form to mail to:

Vida Charter School

157 Lefever Street

Gettysburg, PA 17325

-or-

Call (717) 339-8224 to request a paper enrollment form.

All references to dates are defined to mean the CLOSE OF BUSINESS on the date indicated.

1. The re-enrollment process is conducted for the existing student body for the forthcoming year, beginning on January 1st and ending on February 25 th of the same year.

2. In each successive school year, students who were enrolled in the school the previous year will keep their seats in the school until they graduate, provided they submit a re-enrollment form.

3. Students who do not submit a re-enrollment form by the deadline (February 25th) must re-apply during the initial or "open" enrollment period. All aforementioned applicant rules will then be enforced.

4. The initial or "open" enrollment period is avaliable until March 15th of each year.

5. If, on March 16th, there are sufficient seats for all applicants to attend, the applicants will be asked to complete registration paperwork for admission.

6. If there are more eligible applicants than available seats, the school will conduct a manual lottery to determine who will be asked to register.

7. All applications received after the initial or "open" enrollment period will be accepted on a "First-Come, First-Serve" basis, after the Waiting List, generated by the Lottery, has been exhausted.

Manual Lottery refers the selection of applicant names by a random method such as the blind drawing of individual names from a container in sequence until all names in the container have been exhausted.

1. All Applicants will participate in the lottery (special exceptions apply to the siblings of currently enrolled students and the children of people actively involved in the planning of Vida Charter School).

2. The lottery will be open to all, will not rely on computers, and will be easily understood and followed by all observers.

3. Only applications received prior to the end of the initial or "open" enrollment deadline, February 25th, are eligible to participate in the lottery.

4. All applications received after the initial or "open" enrollment period will be accepted on a "First-Come, First-Serve" basis, after the Waiting List has been exhausted.

5. All applicants offered a seat shall be required to affirmatively respond to an offer for acceptance within seven (7) calendar days. Those not responding (excluding declined offers) will be placed on the waiting list with an application date equal to the date the initial offer expired.

6. Only one lottery shall be conducted by a school to include all grades in which the number of Applicants exceeds the number of expected seats available.

7. If the number of Applicants is less than the number of seats anticipated to be available, no public lottery shall be conducted for that grade. Should a seat become available, the next student in line according to the results of the lottery shall be offered admission.

8. The Lottery, if necessary, will be conducted by March 31st.