The website of the New York City Charter Schools Center (NYC Charters Schools) is a simple route that concentrates several interactive tools to locate the charter school that is closest to your neighborhood, clear all the doubts you have about it educational model. And although there are only a few days left, we also have to receive applications for the 2024-2025 school year.
Parents and representatives could still have time to make a decision about a center that suits their needs.
For almost 20 years, this institution has been the main defender of the autonomous educational system movement, helping new charter schools get started, supporting existing ones, and generating community and political support so these schools can grow.
Although we are in the final stretch of the deadline for accepting applications for students interested in entering some of the 274 charter schools, located in the five boroughs, it must be clarified that these schools process applications on a continuous basis.
On the calendar, most accept applications from interested families until April 1, but depending on the campus, this period could be extended.
That’s why this digital tool: nyccharterschools.org, can make it easier for you to find a school that could even be a few steps from where you live.
“If there are more student applications than seats available, charter schools must conduct lotteries to randomly select students for admission. Students whose names are not selected in the lottery will be added to the school’s waiting list. And they may be admitted as seats become available in the future,” highlights NYC Charters Schools.
My son is learning English
One of the main fears that newly arrived Hispanic families have is that their children will not be able to be in a classroom that is culturally receptive, with the process of learning a new language.
According to data shared by this center, multilingual students/English language learners (MLL) now represent 10.1% of enrollment in New York City public charter schools. This instructional model is committed to recruiting and serving MLL students.
“New and returning New York City families choose charter schools for their children because they see the results. For 25 years, charter schools have helped prepare a generation of students for success inside and outside the classroom,” said James Merriman, executive director of NYC Charter Schools, regarding new data that shows how this school model continues to be a point of great interest on the part of Hispanic communities.
As this center reviews, the first school of its type in New York state, opened in Harlem in 1999, a year after the passage of the Charter Schools Law. Since then, an average of 12 public charter schools opened annually, until the city limit was reached in 2019.
Existing charter schools have continued to raise ratings and expand their charter schools, and today serve approximately 15% of the students in the Big Apple public education system.
The data:
- 7% was the increase in the number of seats occupied by children of Hispanic origin in autonomous schools in NYC, between the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years.