Deadline To Apply For McAuliffe Charter Lottery Feb. 26

The Christa McAuliffe Charter School will conduct its annual admissions lottery on Wednesday, March 2, at 6 p.m.

The free, public charter school is located in Framingham at 139 Newbury Street.

The deadline to submit an online application is midnight on Friday, Feb. 26.

To apply online or to learn more about the school visit www.mcauliffecharter.org/apply

McAuliffe will accept 140 students for the 2016-17 sixth grade.

Incoming sixth graders, who already have a sibling at the charter school, will be given first priority and then names will be randomly selected for the rest of the 140 slots.

After the 140 students have been selected, the school will continue to draw names to establish an ordered wait list for sixth grade.

The school will also conduct a lottery to establish an ordered wait list for seventh and eighth
grades.

To learn more about McAuliffe, families are invited to attend an information session on Monday, Feb. 8 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. To RSVP, visit www.signupgenius.com/go/5080544ADAE23AA8-information2

There is another session on Wednesday, Feb. 24 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. You can RSVP by visiting, www.signupgenius.com/go/5080544adae23aa8-information5.

The Christa McAuliffe Charter School is a free public charter school that accepts students in grades 6,7,and 8 via a lottery.

The school’s enrollment policy outlines a lottery and admissions process that follows the state charter school laws and regulations that call for a blind lottery:

• First preference goes to students who have siblings currently attending the school.
• Next, students who are residents of Ashland, Framingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Marlborough, Natick, Southborough, and Sudbury are drawn through the random electronic lottery tool.
• Students who live outside of the eight-town region may also apply to the lottery; the school draws from the non-regional pool after all sibling and regional student names have been drawn.