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Bus update for the week of March 1.  Service suspended for: #5 – Pine Ridge, #5 – Central Middle/Central High, #6 – Northern Trails, #6 – Northern Middle/Northern High, #74 Knapp Forest, #74 – Eastern Middle/Eastern High, #75 – Central Woodlands, #75 – Central Middle/Central High. Service resumes for: #40 – Northern Trails, #40 – Northern Middle/Northern High, #65 – Thornapple, #65 – Central Middle/Central High, #72 – Knapp Forest, #72 – Eastern Middle/Eastern High, #93 – Pine Ridge, #93 – Northern Middle/Northern High.

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Language Immersion Enrollment

Chinese and Spanish Immersion Enrollment Dates at a Glance

Sibling Enrollment

November 30 – December 18, 2020

New Family Enrollment

January 4 – February 5, 2021

(Due to inclement weather, the deadline has been extended until Monday, Feb. 8, 2021.)

Lottery

February 12, 2021

Letters Mailed

February 19, 2021

Language Immersion Tour Registration

photo of the Ada Vista Elementary building

Spanish Immersion Program Tours

Virtual tours are available on these dates:

photo of the Meadow Brook Elementary building

Mandarin Chinese Immersion Program Tour

Virtual tours are available on these dates:

Language Immersion Enrollment Process

Students enter the program through one of two ways:

1) Through Siblings

Families who currently have enrolled immersion students, or have immersion alumni siblings, are eligible for the sibling registration. Sibling registration begins on Nov. 30, and ends Dec. 18, 2020, at 4 p.m. To register this way, families must bring the following to the school office listed at the bottom of each form:

  1. Completed pre-registration form
    1. Spanish Immersion Sibling Registration Form for Kindergarten (PDF)
    2. or Mandarin Chinese Immersion Sibling Registration for Kindergarten Form (PDF)
  2. birth certificate (original, with raised seal)
  3. and two proofs of residency (For acceptable proofs of residency, please see the Enrollment page)

All forms must be submitted in person.

If the pre-enrollment form is not submitted by Dec. 18, 2020, at 4 p.m., late submissions will be added to the in-district lottery.

2) In-District Lottery

New student lottery registration begins Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, and ends on February 5, 2021. (Due to inclement weather, the deadline has been extended until Monday, Feb. 8, 2021.) Interested FHPS resident families must bring the following information to the school office listed at the bottom of each form:

  1. Completed pre-registration form
    1. Spanish Immersion Pre-Registration Form, for 2021-22 Kindergarten/New Student (PDF)
    2. or Mandarin Chinese Immersion Pre-Registration Form, for 2021-2022 Kindergarten/New Student (PDF)
  2. Birth certificate (original, with raised seal)
  3. and Two proofs of residency (For acceptable proofs of residency, please see the Enrollment page)

All forms must be submitted in person.

The computer-generated, random lottery will be conducted at the FHPS administration office on Feb. 12, 2021. Acceptance and waitlist informational letters will be sent to families on Feb. 19, 2021.

If the pre-enrollment form is not submitted by the deadline, late submissions will be added to the end of the waiting list.

In-District Lottery Process

Once the lottery has taken place, a letter will be sent out to all applicants to notify them of their acceptance or placement on the waitlist.

Those who receive notification that they are on the waitlist will be informed in the letter of their place on the waitlist. In order to remain on the waitlist, the student must remain a resident in the FHPS attendance area.

If on the waitlists for both programs, students may remain there until they receive an invitation to join either program.  Once a student has accepted an invitation to join one of the two programs, they will be immediately and permanently removed from the other program’s waitlist.

At the end of the school year, families who are left on the kindergarten waitlist will be asked if they wish to be considered for the first-grade waitlist.  They will be added to the first-grade waitlist in the same relative order in which they were on the kindergarten waitlist.  The waitlist will be dissolved at the culmination of the first semester of first grade.

FHPS resident students who are able to pass a target language performance/proficiency assessment may remain on a waiting list past the end of the first semester of first grade.