Enrollment FAQ

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What is the Kindergarten Entrance Age Requirement?

Is my family required to live in Douglas County School District in order to join the waitlist?

You are not required to live in Douglas County to add to our waitlist. However, in-district families will receive first priority in our lottery. If you reside outside of Douglas County School District at the time we extend an offer, but indicated you lived in-district, we will be required to rescind any offers of enrollment. Once the offer has been rescinded, you may reapply using your current address in the SchoolMint platform. Per our school's charter contract with DCSD, we are legally obligated to extend offers of enrollment to in-district families before we extend offers to out-of-district families.

If I am open to more than one campus, what happens to my other waitlist applications if I accept an offer?

When an offer is accepted by your student, whether it’s at the campus of your first choice or last choice, your student will automatically be removed from the waitlists at any other campuses you may have applied to. There is no option to remain on the waitlist at other campuses after accepting an offer. If you wish to wait for an opening at a different campus, you will need to decline the offer you received; you will then be removed from the waitlist at the campus that generated the offer, and you will forfeit your place in line for that campus. There is no guarantee you will receive an offer from other campuses and there is a risk of not being offered enrollment in the future.

How does the American Academy lottery work?

The lottery process for the upcoming school year shall commence on the first school day occurring on or after December 5th. All students for whom an Online Waitlist Application entry was submitted prior to the lottery date and who are eligible for enrollment will be included in the lottery. American Academy has contracted with a third-party vendor, SchoolMint, who offers an online waitlist application, lottery and enrollment platform. The lottery is programmed to mirror our school’s priorities and requirements as outlined in our policy. American Academy staff and leadership review the submission of waitlist applications, programming of the lottery design, and lottery results. Once results are verified, enrollment offers are automatically generated via the platform.

What are my 'odds' of receiving an offer?

The process of extending offers, across all three campuses, is in a constant state of motion. We are unable to answer inquiries about a student's 'odds' of receiving an offer - there are simply too many factors at play (number of openings, number of students on the waitlist, the accept/decline rate of offers being extended to families who are in front of you, which campus a family who's in front of you has chosen, current families deciding they are unable to return which creates vacancies, families who accepted an offer previously but then decided they will not attend, etc). We do continue to make offers all the way through August 1st as vacancies open up. Once the lottery has taken place, we encourage you to check the parent dashboard in your SchoolMint Enroll account. Log in to your SchoolMint Account to check your waitlist status at any time.

Once the lottery takes place in December, how long will it take for me to hear if my student will be offered a spot at American Academy?

The registrar's office will begin sending email and/or text offers (using the email address or phone number provided to us in your SchoolMint Enroll account), on the first business day after the lottery. Keep in mind, each family is given 72 hours to make their decision and this process takes time. We continue to make offers late into the summer as spots become available. Log in to your SchoolMint Account to check your waitlist status at any time. Upon receipt of an offer of enrollment, parents have 72 hours (time-stamped) to accept or decline that offer. Upon accepting an offer of enrollment, parents will have 5 calendar days to turn in all completed enrollment paperwork. If your family was offered a spot at any time and you did not respond or declined the offer, your family was removed from the waitlist. It is a family's responsibility to submit a waitlist application via SchoolMint Enroll if you are still interested in enrollment.

Why does my waitlist position number occasionally move up?

When we extend an offer to a student, your "position" goes down by one number - you are one step closer to being extended an offer of enrollment! If, however, a sibling or a staff member is added to the waitlist after the lottery (and they have priority to do so), then your number may go up one. If you are curious about the details of those priorities, please read the American Academy Enrollment Policy.

If I receive and accept an offer, what is the deadline for registration?

If I do not respond to an offer, what happens to my waitlist entry?

If I haven't received an email for an offer yet, does that mean I won't get in?

Not necessarily. We are often still sending enrollment offers in the late summer. It takes several months to send out all of the enrollment offers. If you do receive an invitation to enroll, you will have 72 hours to get back to us. Not everyone accepts the offer of a spot at American Academy, but we must wait 72 hours for the response, or until that invitation expires, before we can move down the waitlist. As you can imagine, this process takes some time. Please be patient and continue to check your parent dashboard. Log in to your SchoolMint Account to check your waitlist status at any time.

If I don't get in this year, how will that affect my chances for future years?