The admissions process helps us determine the best learning environment and instructional program for your child. The first set of steps is for parents who are interested in enrolling their child in our school. The second set is for parents who are interested in enrolling their child in our after-school tutoring program.

Admissions for our school - Manus Academy

Initial Contact: Meet with our business administrator to tour the school, share information about our services, your child’s needs and your goals and desires for him or her. If you both determine that our services may be appropriate for your child, the business administrator will give you an admissions packet and schedule a time for your child to visit our school and for you to meet with one of the admissions staff for an interview. This begins the admissions process.

Student Records: Please give the business administrator any psychological and educational reports you may have on your child. This helps the other admissions staff members prepare for their visits with you and your child.

Application, Parent Interview and School Visit: When you and your child return to our school for the visit and interview, please give the business administrator your completed and signed application with a $95.00 nonrefundable registration fee.

During this visit, your child will visit one or two classrooms and see an admissions staff member (i.e., our principal or lead teacher) for an educational evaluation or a lighter program assessment.

While your child is visiting a class, you will meet with the other admissions staff member to complete a checklist that examines the specific academic barriers your child may be experiencing. We use this information, along with the results of the current and past testing, to determine if we can offer a placement for your child and, if so, develop his or her instructional program.

Other Student Information: If we can offer your child a placement in our school, we will also need these records from you. (You’ll find the necessary forms in the admissions packet.)

Student Records
• Immunization record – Please send us a copy from your child’s physician.
• Signed “Permission to Share Information” form (e.g., to speak with child’s pediatrician, counselor, speech and language therapist or other professional who sees your child)
• Three school reviews (from previous teachers, counselors or principals)
• Discipline record (from current or previous school)
• School records – Includes reports and transcripts (for high school students)
  
  
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 one of our admissions staff 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, we will evaluate your child. Our evaluation takes approximately 3 hours and is billed at $100.00 per hour.
• Placement testing – Placement testing is an informal evaluation that allows us to determine specific starting points of instruction in each skill or subject. If we have administered the educational evaluation, placement testing is unnecessary. If you give us the results of an educational evaluation administered elsewhere and within the last six months, we will schedule a placement assessment and use those results with the educational evaluation to develop an effective instructional program. Placement testing takes approximately one to one-and-a-half hours and is billed at $100.00 per hour.
• Other testing – For us to develop a comprehensive treatment program, we sometimes need other information about your child. If so, we 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 to know.

Student Records

• Signed “Permission to Share Information” form (e.g., to speak with child’s pediatrician, counselor, speech and language therapist or other professional who sees your child)
• School records – Includes 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 you’re child has received an educational or psycho-educational evaluation within the last six months, please send us a copy. Otherwise, we will evaluate your child. Our evaluation takes approximately three hours and is billed at $100.00 per hour.
• Placement testing – If you give us a recent educational report completed elsewhere, we will administer a lighter placement assessment and use those results with the educational report to develop an effective instructional program. Placement testing takes approximately one to one-and-a-half hours and is billed at $100.00 per hour.
• Other Testing – For us to develop a comprehensive treatment program, we sometimes need other information about your child. If so, we 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 to know.