Admissions

Once you have completed our application for admissions, please fax it to: 704-541-2858.

School Admissions Procedures

Directions: The admissions process helps us determine the best learning environment and instructional program for your child. Please complete these steps and contact us if you have questions. We look forward to working with you.

Initial Contact: Meet with us to tour the school, share information about our services, your child’s needs and your goals and desires for him or her. If you and we both determine that our services may be appropriate for your child, we will give you this 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 us any psychological and educational reports you may have on your child (see step 5). This helps us prepare for our visit 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 us your completed and signed application and $85.00 for the 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 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.)

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 results from an educational evaluation 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 an educational report administered elsewhere and within the last six months, we will schedule a 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 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.

Interpretive Conference and Enrollment Procedures: One of the admissions staff members meets with you to review all test results and interpretations and the instructional program prescribed for your child. This conference lasts about 1½ hours and is billed at $100.00 per hour. At the end of the conference, we review the services, costs, enrollment agreement and starting date of school.

Admissions Process for Manus Tutoring Students

The admissions process at Manus Tutoring helps us determine the best instructional program for your child. The process includes several steps:

You visit with admissions personnel to discuss your child’s learning needs and how we might be able to help.
You provide copies of any psychological and educational reports you have on your child and other school records.
You complete a checklist to help us identify the academic barriers your child may be experiencing.
If needed, your child meets with a staff member who administers an educational evaluation.

Educational Testing

If your child has been given an educational evaluation within the last six months, please send us a copy. Otherwise, we will evaluate your child. The evaluation takes approximately 3 hours and is billed at $100 per hour.

Sometimes, we need to administer placement testing to augment information from another recent evaluation, particularly if your child needs remedial instruction to develop basic skills. If needed, we administer placement tests that take approximately 1 to 1.5 hours to complete. This testing is billed at $100 per hour.

To develop a comprehensive program for some students, we may need to refer them to other practitioners for specialized testing. For instance, we may refer your child to a speech and language therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist then collaborate with them and you on implementing specific strategies.

Interpretive Conference

You meet with one of the Manus Academy admissions staff to review all test results and interpretations and to discuss the instructional program prescribed for your child. This conference lasts about 1.5 hours and is billed at $100 per hour. At the end of the conference, with common goals established, you review with the staff member the services, costs and starting date for your child.

Enrollment Records

When your child is enrolled for one-to-one tutoring, we will request other records, such as signed permission forms, so that our staff can communicate with your child’s pediatrician, counselor and other professionals, as needed.