Any family that lives in the Lake Washington School District may apply for admission to the Explorer Community School.
Applicants will be selected randomly from a lottery of all interested and eligible families. Families interested in applying for the 2012/2013 school year are required to attend Information Night on Thursday, January 12, 2012, at 6:30 p.m., at which time they will receive an application.
Following the lottery, 2nd through 5th-grade applicants will be added to the existing waiting list in the order of their lottery drawing.
Completed applications can be mailed to the Enrollment Coordinator, Explorer Community School, 7040 208th Ave. NE, Redmond, WA 98053. Applications must be received by Jan. 27, 2012.
To contact the Enrollment Coordinator, please leave a message on the school answering machine at (425) 936-2533 or e-mail your question and phone number to explorer-enroll@hotmail.com and a parent volunteer will return your call/e-mail as soon as possible.
Application Process
For all applicants, attendance at the annual Information Night in January is required. Please note: because we are not able to offer child care, this event is for adults only.
- Applications are obtained at the Information Night and must be completed and returned by the deadline announced at the Information Night.
- Applicants must attend a group tour of the school to be eligible for enrollment. A sign-up sheet will be available at Information Night to select from several different times to attend. (Tours are for parents/guardians only, new students will have opportunities to meet teachers and classmates after placement.)
- Lottery and waiting list placement will be announced in late February.
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Once the first grade lottery drawing has occurred, applicants will retain their assigned place on the waiting list. As openings occur, they will be offered to the next applicant at the top of the list. This list will remain intact through sixth grade. If an applicant accepts a position at another choice school in LWSD, they must notify Explorer’s enrollment coordinator who will remove their name from the waiting list. New 2nd through 5th grade applicants will be determined from a lottery for each grade and added to the existing waiting list.
- For families with twins and multiple siblings, each student must enter the lottery as an individual and each student will receive an individual lottery number. There is no guarantee that twin/multiple siblings will receive admittance into Explorer. However, due to the elementary sibling preference policy should one twin/multiple sibling be admitted via sibling preference or lottery into the 1st grade, the other twin/multiple sibling will also be accepted, provided there is space available, (i.e. provided that the first twin/multiple sibling did not receive the last spot via lottery).
Enrollment Timeline
Information Night - Thursday January 12, 2011, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Emily Dickinson Commons.
Applications Due - January 27, 2012 - Last day appliactions are accepted.
Lottery - February 3, 2012.
Notification Letters Mailed - February 15, 2012.
Acceptance Deadline - February 27, 2012.