Harbor City (HCIS) admission policies are consistent with the admission requirements of Minnesota Statutes§124E. HCIS shall not discriminate against any student based on race, color, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, religion or creed, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, disability, intellectual ability, prior measures of achievement or aptitude, athletic ability, or for any other basis that would be unlawful for a public or charter school.

HCIS is a public school and pursuant to state law, must enroll an eligible student who submits a timely application, unless the number of applications exceeds the capacity of the program, class, grade level, or building. When that occurs, students will be accepted by lot and admitted as further described -below.

Before admitting a student on the lottery list, HCIS shall give preference for enrollment to siblings of an enrolled student and to a foster child of that pupil’s parents. HCIS will give preference to enrolling children of the school’s staff before accepting other pupils by lot. Minnesota charter schools must be free to eligible Minnesota students and give preference to Minnesota residents over out of state applicants.

Interested families will submit applications up until 4:00PM on the 1st of March. If March 1st falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, then the deadline for applications will be the first Monday following March 1st. Once the application period is closed, if there are more applicants than spots available, all timely applicants will be placed on one of two lists by grade: (a) a preference list of students given preference by state law or this policy, and (b) all other applicants. Both lists will be shuffled and offers of enrollment will be made to students in the order in which they are listed for each grade until classes are full, first exhausting the preference list, and then proceeding to the non-preference applicants. This lottery will be held no later than the first Monday after the student application deadline. If any student, whether enrolled or on the waiting list, cancels their application or withdraws from HCIS, they shall lose their place. If they later re-apply, they shall be treated as a new applicant. All applicants still on a waiting list at the beginning of the next enrollment period must submit a new application for enrollment and will be subject to the enrollment process described above. The waiting lists do not carry over from year to year. See Admissions Policy with Lottery, Policy 5.1.1 at www.harborcityschool.org.

Harbor City International School is authorized by Volunteers of America – Minnesota; S. Olsen, representative, (612) 270-1998