Enrollment Process

Enrollment for the 2024-2025 School Year

Northwest Classical Academy is a public, open-enrollment school that serves students in grades Kindergarten through 9th grade for the 2023-24 school year. NCA will scale up a grade each year until we reach a full Kindergarten through 12th-grade configuration. All students who reside in the state of Georgia are eligible to attend.

NCA is no longer accepting applications for the 2023-2024 school year. We will continue to fill available seats from the current waitlist through February 2024.

The application for consideration in the March 7 lottery, for the 2024-2025 school year, is now closed. All applications submitted after February 29 will be added to the waitlist.

The waitlist application will reopen on March 8. Click here to apply for the waitlist.

Detailed enrollment and lottery procedures are available here. (Click here for Spanish version)

Lottery Details

Each year, the enrollment process will a) fill a new grade of Kindergarten students, and b) position students on a waitlist to take seats that may come available in first grade and above.

To the extent that demand exceeds the number of available seats for any given grade, the administration will conduct a public, system-generated, grade-level lottery. Lottery results will be posted to each applicant’s online SchoolMint account on the day of the lottery.

In accordance with Northwest Classical Academy’s charter and as permitted by OCGA § 20-2-206 6, NCA will grant enrollment preference to the siblings of currently-enrolled students, to the children of board members, and to the children of full-time employees.

Sibling preference refers to giving preference in the lottery to students who already have a sibling enrolled at the school. “Sibling” means a child who shares at least one common biological or legal parent whether through natural or adoptive means, including biological siblings that share parents; half siblings that share a single parent; step siblings that share a parent or parents through marriage even if the marriage was terminated by death or dissolution; children who share a parent or parents through adoption or guardianship; and foster children awaiting permanent placement. Siblings must also be residents of the state of Georgia to attend NCA. The lottery will be conducted on a grade-by-grade basis, and the results of the lottery for one sibling will have no bearing on the results of another sibling who is also participating in the lottery.

The result of the lottery for rising Kindergarten students will be a list of 70 “seated” students, plus a numerical wait list. The result of the lottery for first grade students and above will be a numerical wait list. The school will use the wait list to offer available seats to students on a grade-by-grade basis as they become available.

Registration Forms

Records Request Form (to request records from previous school): Click here to download

Registration & Verification Checklist: Click here to download

Georgia Health Form 3300: Click here to download

Click here for more information about Financial Aid and Free & Reduced Lunch.