The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released an updated report on how many students are waiting to get into a charter school statewide.
The report is based on charter school enrollment data from October 1, 2015. According to the statistics approximtely 34,000 students remain on a waiting list at one or more charter schools. The report is based on 74 updated charter school wait lists, which according to DESE contained 43,294 entries overall.
The report includes Fall River’s charter schools, indicating 392 students are on the waitlist at Atlantis Charter School, and 32 on the waitlist at Argosy Collegiate Charter School, but the information does not specify how many students may appear on both schools’ waitlists.
According to DESE, each spring, charter schools submit to the department the number of students enrolled for the upcoming school year as well as the number of students who were placed on their waitlists through each school’s initial lottery.
A department spokesperson says,“It is important to note that not every student on a charter school waitlist would necessarily accept an offer of admission if, and when, it might be proffered; Therefore, the number of students found on each charter school’s waitlist should not be understood as the number of students actively willing to accept an admission offered at any moment in time. This is especially true of schools that have chosen to rollover their waitlists from one year to the next.”
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