Current students are required to have a re-commitment letter on file and participate in scheduling their classes for the following school year, if they intend to return.

The lottery application period will be open at midnight on Monday, January 1, 2018 until Wednesday, February 28, 2017 at 11:59 pm.

The admission lottery will be held on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 5 pm at the Voyager Academy Middle School Gym, located at 101 Hock Parc. Durham, NC 27704. The public is welcome to attend.

Each applicant will receive a notification by email or text, whichever method you indicate on your application, at the completion of the lottery on March 8, 2018, notifying them of their acceptance or position on the waitlist. While we welcome the public to join us for the execution of the actual lottery, no one will be able to find out the results until everyone gets a notification by email or text. Meaning, you may end up waiting for upwards of an hour once the lottery is generated while we verify and publish the results.

Please see the “Lottery Details” section for more information.

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Voyager Academy would like to provide access to as many students as possible, however as a charter school there are limitations on our enrollment. We are providing the following information, not in an effort to deter you from applying, but for transparency and to assist in expectations. 

• • • • Traditionally, each year, Voyager Academy receives in excess of 2,000 applications for approximately 120 total openings across all grades K-12 at the time of the lottery. Of those 120 openings, 100 of them are for our incoming kindergarten. Therefore, there are typically only 20 total openings that are available across 1st – 12th grades combined each year. The majority of the 20 openings are typically for 9th grade. Also pursuant to the State guidelines, siblings and staff members are given preference when there are open positions.

• • • • Please remember, each year is unique, and there may be more or less openings depending on student retention and other factors.  Voyager Academy will call students on the waitlist throughout the summer and school year if more openings become available. We strongly encourage all who are interested in Voyager Academy to apply and attend a tour.

• • • • If there are fewer applicants than slots available, all applicants will be admitted. Accepted families who enroll in Voyager Academy, parents and students, must read and agree to follow the Voyager Academy policies and procedures.

• • • • Students attending Voyager Academy may live in any county in North Carolina and must reside in North Carolina at the time of application.

• • • • Siblings of current Voyager Academy students and children of current Voyager Academy full time staff members are admitted before the lottery to any open spots for the grade in which that student is applying. If there are more siblings applying than spots available there will be a lottery held among siblings of Voyager students.

• • • • Students who are twins, triplets, etc. must each complete an application. However, only one application will be entered in the lottery for those students. If that application is accepted, the sibling’s twin or triplet, etc. will also be admitted.

• • • • Each applicant will receive an email or text from SchoolMint at the conclusion of the lottery that will notify you of acceptance or wait list position for the grade you have applied. If you are offered a seat, you will have 14 days to accept the seat through the SchoolMint website.

• • • • Students not admitted through the lottery will be placed on a waitlist. Students will be kept on the waitlist until the end of the following
        school year. If a spot becomes available, we will contact students in order of their waitlist number. Waitlist status can be checked on the SchoolMint site where you made the initial application for admission.

• • • • If a student does not get a space through the lottery/waiting list process, that student must re-apply to be considered the following year. However, current students do not have to re-apply year-to-year.