Admission Policy
The Westlake Academy is an open-enrollment Charter School operating under a Charter awarded to the Town of Westlake by the Texas State Board of Education, with oversight by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Charter School Division. An open-enrollment Charter School may not deny admission to a student based on sex, national origin, ethnicity, religion, disability, academic ability, artistic ability, athletic ability, or based on the school district that the child would otherwise attend.
Definitions:
Primary Geographic Boundary Student means a child of school age: (a) living with his/her parent or legal guardian who is a resident of Westlake, or (b) whose parent or grandparent is employed by, or is an officer of, the Town of Westlake or the Westlake Academy.
Secondary Boundary Students means any child of school age that does not meet the definition of Primary Geographic Boundary Student.
Application Deadline January 31st of each year.
Lottery means a publicly posted and publicly conducted random drawing from names of Secondary Boundary Student applicants desiring admission to the Westlake Academy. The date, time and location of the lottery will be posted on the front page of the Westlake Academy Website by February 1 of each year. All applicants in the lottery will be notified by mail.
Waiting List means a list of applicants desiring admission when space becomes available.
Late Application means an application received after the Application Deadline but before the beginning of school.
Application Procedures:
All parents wishing to enroll their students in the Westlake Academy must complete an Application for Enrollment. Applications are available at the Westlake Academy Offices, 2600 Ottinger Road, Westlake, Texas, between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Applications should be picked up in person. Applications must be received by 5 pm, January 31st of each year for that year's lottery.
Admission Order:
All Primary Geographic Boundary Students will be admitted to the Academy provided the Academy has received a completed application.
The admission of Secondary Boundary Students is contingent upon available space. If, after February 28 of each year, there remain vacancies in any grade, Secondary Boundary Students will be admitted until all available vacancies are filled. Names drawn after available vacancies have been filled will be placed on a Secondary Boundary Student waiting list and will be enrolled as vacancies occur.
Any Secondary Boundary Student application received after the Application Deadline will be placed at the end of the waiting list and will be admitted in the order that vacancies occur.
Siblings
It is the intent of Westlake Academy that siblings desiring enrollment will be afforded that opportunity. Therefore, if one Secondary Boundary Student sibling is admitted to the school then the other siblings will be moved to the Sibliing Waiting List and have priority over other Secondary Boundary Students.
Year to Year Admission
It is the current policy of the Board that, once admitted to the school, an eligible student would automatically qualify for enrollment in subsequent years without being subject to lottery. If, however, a student leaves the school, then that student will be considered a new student for admission purposes.