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Dear Prospective Students and Families,

Thank you for your interest in Brooklyn Prospect Charter School.  From the start of the admission process, we strive to develop strong collaboration with and amongst our families.

Please note that our school is growing a grade each year. For the fall of 2013, our Windsor Terrace campus will enroll students in grades 6-10. Admission is by lottery or waitlist.

4/1/2013-REGISTRATION FOR OUR APRIL LOTTERY IS NOW CLOSED.
 
Letters with lottery results have been mailed to all applicants.
 If your student did not enter our lottery and you would like to add his/her name to our
waitlist please link here now.

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
4. Enrollment (including waitlist for the upcoming school year)
5. Lottery Process Details:

6. Frequently Asked Questions

1. General Admissions Information

IMPORTANT NOTE: A new charter school, we are currently growing a grade each year. During the 2013-14 school year we will enroll only 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th grade students.

We admit students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. We do not admit students in grades 11 & 12. Admission to intake grades (6 & 9) is by lottery.  Admission to non-intake grades (7, 8, & 10) is by waitlist.To be eligible for admission, students must:

      1.    Complete and submit an application to our admissions lottery before 5pm on April 1. To complete an application for our admission lottery click on the application link above or below between December 1 and April 1. All completed, submitted applications will be entered in our lottery

                      OR

       2.  Complete our waitlist form (if applicant did not enter lottery)

Following our annual April lottery, all applicants will be assigned a number based on our random lottery drawing or the date and time stamp of their completed waitlist form.  Seats will be offered to students based on availability and the lottery number assigned to the application.  The following students will be assigned preferential lottery numbers.

Admission preferences will be given to:

  • Siblings of current Brooklyn Prospect students
     
  • 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.  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.
     
  • Students who qualify for free and reduced lunch - (please note that this preference is for applicants to our 6th grade only).

In the fall of 2013 Brooklyn Prospect will enroll approximately one hundred (100) sixth grade students, one hundred (100) seventh grade students, one hundred (100) eighth grade students, one hundred (100) 9th grade students, and one hundred (100) 10th grade students. There will be fewer seats available to new 7th, 8th, and 10th grade students because our primary intakes are in the grades 6 and 9.

TOURS of the school will not be offered until after our April lottery. Tours will be offered in late-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 or high school, and their families are invited to attend one of our information sessions.

In order to allow space for all interested families, we ask families to please sign up to attend one of our sessions.

2012-13 INFORMATION SESSIONS
TO ATTEND PLEASE SIGN UP BY SELECTING ONE OF THE BELOW LINKS: 

  Middle School Information Session #1, January 14, 2013 
  Middle School Information Session #2, February 11, 2013
  Middle School Information Session #3, March 11, 2012 

  High School Information Session #2, January 28, 2013 
  High School Information Session #3, March 18, 2013 

*due to limited space and high demand, we are only able to offer 2 reservations per family for the middle school information night and 
3 reservations per family for the high school information night.

 

   Sessions will be held at the school facility:
3002 Fort Hamilton Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11218

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3. Application / Lottery Registration :

REGISTRATION FOR OUR APRIL ADMISSIONS LOTTERY IS NOW CLOSED. 
Lottery application will reopen December 1, 2013.

LOTTERY: the Brooklyn Prospect Charter School Lottery will be held on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at the school facility:

3002 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11218

Families who do not have access to a computer should work with their elementary or middle school guidance counselors to complete an online application or should visit school to complete an application. 

4. Enrollment (for the 2013/14 school year)

Admissions to intake grades (6 and 9) is by lottery and wait-list that develops from the lottery.

Entry to other grades (7, 8, and 10) will be through perpetual wait-list, waitlist that rollover from year to year following intake lotteries.

We will not take in new students in grades 11-12.

To enter your student on our wait-list (if s/he entered our lottery, s/he will automatically move to the wait-list if a seat is not available at the time of the lottery), please complete the linked waitlist form.

Seats will be filled from our wait-list on a rolling basis as they become available. Siblings of current Brooklyn Prospect students will be granted preference (a sibling is defined as a student who shares a biological parent or a legal guardian of a current Brooklyn Prospect student).

Please be aware of the following:

  • Brooklyn Prospect main campus is located in Brooklyn's Community School District 15
  • 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 
  • 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
  • For our April 2013 lottery, we will only accept applications from students who will enter the 6th,7th 8th, 9th and 10th grades in the fall of 2013.  The majority of our openings will be in 6th grade and 9th grades.
  • 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.
  • 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, 2013,  informing us that you would like to enroll a sibling in the 2013-14 school year. 
  • 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. 
  • 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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