Admissions for our school - Manus Academy

Initial Contact: Meet with one of our directors to tour the school, discuss information about our services and your child's needs. If you both determine that our services may be appropriate for your child, the director will give you an admissions packet and schedule a time for your child to visit our school.

Application: When your child comes back for the scheduled school visit, please give the business manager your completed application with the registration and processing fee.

School Visit: The director spends time with your child and has him or her visit some of our classrooms. After the school visit, the director will tell you if our school can offer a placement for your child. If we can, then follow these next steps. 

Student Information: So that we can develop the most effective instructional plan for your child, please gather the following information.

Student Records
• Provide a copy of your child's immunization record from his or her physician.
• Provide a signed "Permission to Share Information" form that gives us permission to speak with your child's pediatrician, counselor, speech and language therapist or other professional who sees your child.
• Provide three teacher, principal or counselor reviews.
• Provide school records that include school testing, current report card, educational plans, transcripts (for high school students) and any other information that would be helpful for us to know.
• Provide signed student and parent agreements to follow school rules and policies.
Psychological and Educational Testing

• Psychological evaluation - Send us a psychological or psycho-educational report written by a licensed psychologist within the last three years. If you do not have an up-to-date report, please arrange to have one administered. (If you wish, you may arrange to have the director attend the psychologist's interpretive conference with you so that we may better coordinate our goals with the evaluation results.) Please send us a copy of the report rather than the original, as we do not return this information.
• Educational evaluation - Send us an educational report that has been administered within the last six months. If you do not have a current report, our director will evaluate your child.
• Placement testing - Placement testing is an informal evaluation that allows us to determine specific starting points of instruction in each skill or subject. If our director has administered the educational evaluation, placement testing is unnecessary. If you give us a recent educational report administered elsewhere, we will schedule a placement assessment and use those results with the educational report to develop an effective instructional program.
• Other testing - For Manus Academy to develop a comprehensive treatment program, we sometimes need other information about your child. If so, the director will refer you to another practitioner, such as a psychologist, occupational therapist, psychiatrist or neurologist. We will inform this practitioner about specific information we need.

Student Records

• Provide a signed "Permission to Share Information" form that gives us permission to speak with your child's pediatrician, counselor, speech and language therapist or other professional who sees your child.
• Provide school records that include school testing, psycho-educational reports, current report card, educational plans and any other information that would be helpful for us to know.
Educational Testing

• Educational evaluation - If your child received an educational or psycho-educational evaluation within the last six months, please send us a copy. Otherwise, our director will evaluate your child. Our evaluation takes between one and three hours, depending on the extent and detail of information needed to develop your child's instructional program.
• Other testing - For us to develop a comprehensive treatment program, we sometimes need other information about your child. If so, the director will refer you to another practitioner, such as a speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, psychiatrist or neurologist. We will inform this other practitioner of the information we need.