Tri-City College Prep High School

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Tri-city College Prep offers grades 5-12. If you would like to be a part of this amazing school and prepare yourself for college, you need to drop off your Application for Admissions in the school office following the instructions set for the grade levels below. 

Incoming Freshman and 5th Graders

8th Graders currently in Tri-city College Prep do not need to go through the lottery system all other incoming freshmen and 5th graders are accepted via a lottery system.See the lottery system below for more information. Once you receive notice that your child has been drawn you need to bring in the enrollment packet with all the required documents. Applications for the lottery system will not be accepted before the date shown on our school calendar (usually the first school day of September). We have capped our enrollment and the waiting list grows rapidly, so get your Application for Admissions in as quickly as possible.

Application and Enrollment Steps:

  1. Download, complete, and submit the Application for Admissions by the date shown on the school calendar of the students 8th grade year for high school and 4th grade year for our middle school. 
  2. Lottery drawings are held in the beginning of October and the end of February shown on our school calendar. 
  3. If selected in a lottery, submit in-person the Enrollment Packet with all documents by the deadline on notification letter.  The Enrollment Packet may be downloaded here.
  4. If not selected, the student is placed on a waiting list according to the date on the Application for Admissions.

Required Documents After Acceptance:

  • Enrollment Packet - filled out with all requested documents such as:  
  • Documentation of your child's birth date.
  • Transcripts are needed for any transferring student who needs credit for courses already taken.
  • Vaccination Records
  • Proof of residency
  • Custody or legal guardianship papers as applicable 
  • Failure to include all documents may result in your child's enrollment not being accepted as complete and delaying your child's enrollment.

* We cannot hold a spot open for your child. *

Siblings

Per A.R.S. 15-184(B), A charter school shall give enrollment preference to siblings of pupils already enrolled in the charter school.

  1. Download, complete, and submit the Application for Admission and the Enrollment Packet with all documents before the February drawing.
  2. If the Application for Admission and the Enrollment Packet are not received during this period, the student will be placed into the February's lottery.
  3. If student is not drawn in the lottery, they will be placed on the waiting list according to the date on the Application for Admissions.

Re-Enrollment for Returning Students

Current students are required to re-enroll each year.

  1. Complete and submit the online Re-enrollment form between January 15th – February 15th.
  2. If you have moved since initially enrolling, please provide proof of your new residence, ie. utility bill, phone bill, driver’s license.
  3. If your student did not receive any new immunizations or boosters this year, you will not need to provide proof of immunization. Parents will be asked to sign an exemption form for any missing immunizations.
  4. If not submitted in the timeframe listed in Step #1, the student will be withdrawn from TCP after the last day of the current school year.

Enrollment Into Grades 10, 11, 12

  1. Download, complete, and submit the Application for Admission and include current transcript.
  2. The student is put on the waiting list according to the date on the Application for Admission.
  3. If/when an opening occurs, the next group of 5 students on the waiting list will be called. The first student to bring in a completed Enrollment Packet and transcripts to the office, and needs classes where TCP has room will be accepted.
  4. Students who do not wish to be considered for enrollment at the time an opening occurs will be moved to the bottom of the waiting list.

Enrollment Into Grades: 6, 7, 8

  1. Download, complete, and submit the Application for Admission.
  2. The student is put on the waiting list according to the date on the Application for Admission.
  3. If/when an opening occurs, the next group of 5 students on the waiting list will be called. The first student to bring in a completed Enrollment Packet to the office, and needs classes where TCP has room will be accepted.
  4. Students who do not wish to be considered for enrollment at the time an opening occurs will be moved to the bottom of the waiting list.

Lottery System

lottery graphicTCP’s overall school capacity is based upon the school’s charter set by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools. TCP enrollment is based upon a lottery system, then waiting lists (based on the date and time the enrollment form was received) once capacity is reached. Eligibility for enrollment is not based upon academic ability, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, income level, disability, English proficiency or athletic ability. Capacity for each program, class and grade level is reviewed on an annual basis based on enrollment projections and therefor capacity in certain areas may be reached before overall capacity is reached.

Freshmen and 5th grade student applications will be accepted starting on the date designated on our school calendar of a student’s 8th grade year for high school and 4th grade year for middle school.

Lottery drawings will be held for 9th grade and 5th grade enrollment in October and  February (see the calendar for dates). If selected in a lottery, submit in person the Enrollment Packet with all documents by the deadline on the notification letter (see above for enrollment packets and information). If student is not drawn in the lottery, they will be placed on the waiting list according to the date on the Application for Admissions.

Enrollment for grades 6th-8th and 10th-12th comes from a waiting lists. When an opening occurs, a group of students from that grade level waiting list is called. The first to respond, that needs the classes in which there is space, is accepted.

Siblings of pupils already enrolled in the charter school and children and grandchildren of staff and Board Members can receive automatic enrollment if registration is received before the February lottery. After this time, siblings may be treated like any other new registrant.