Admission

Voyager Academy Admission

Voyager Academy seeks to provide students, with a rigorous, experiential, and challenging curriculum.

Voyager Academy admits students without regard to race, sex, disability,color, religion, national, or ethnic origin.

Voyager Academy is a tuition-free public charter school!

Admission to Voyager Academy is by lottery. The application period begins on January 1 for the school year starting the following fall.

Tours

Voyager Academy offers tours of our campus and facilities on specific dates at specific times during the first part of the new year. No sign-up is required.

All dates are in 2019.

These are the only tour dates/times. Please attend one of the following dates if you are interested in attending Voyager Academy. The tours are designed to give you information about deciding whether Voyager Academy is the right fit for your student. If a seat becomes available and your student is called from the wait list, there will NOT be an opportunity to tour any schools at that time.

Elementary School Tour Dates (Grades K-3)

4210 Ben Franklin Blvd
Durham, NC 27704

Wednesday, January 30th @ 8:30 AM: Grades K-3

Wednesday, March 13th @ 8:30 AM: For admitted K-3 students only. This is the only tour offered for admitted students, so please make plans to attend if you are admitted through the lottery on March 7. Individual tours are not given.

Is my child eligible for Kindergarten?

Kindergarten Age of Eligibility Effective in 2009-2010, House Bill 150 requires that a child presented for enrollment to kindergarten MUST be 5 years old on or before Aug. 31 of that school year.

http://stateboard.ncpublicschools.gov/legal-affairs/resources-1/school-entry-age

For more information about the legal school entry age and the NC Standards for Early Admission to Kindergarten, please go to the following website:

http://stateboard.ncpublicschools.gov/policy-manual/kindergarten-early-childhood/standards-for-early-admission-to-kindergarten

Middle School Tour Dates (Grades 4-8)

101 Hock Parc
Durham, NC 27704

Wednesday, January 30th @ 9:45 AM: Grades 4-8

Wednesday, March 13th @ 9:45 AM: For admitted 4-8 students only. This is the only tour offered for admitted students, so please make plans to attend if you are admitted through the lottery on March 7. Individual tours are not given.

High School Tour Dates (Grades 9-12)

4302 Ben Franklin Blvd
Durham, NC 27704

Wednesday, January 30th @ 10:45 AM: Grades 9-12

Wednesday, March 13th @ 10:45 AM: For admitted 9-12 students only. This is the only tour offered for admitted students, so please make plans to attend if you are admitted through the lottery on March 7. Individual tours are not given.

Current Students

Currently enrolled students do NOT need to re-apply for admission.

Admission Lottery

The lottery application period will be open at midnight on Tuesday, January 1, 2019 until Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11:59 pm. Applications MUST be completed during this time in order to be included in the lottery. If applications are received after this time, they will be placed at the bottom of the wait list.

The admission lottery will be held on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 12:30 pm at the Voyager Academy Elementary School Gym, located at 4210 Ben Franklin Blvd. 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 7, 2019, notifying them of their acceptance or position on the wait list. While we welcome the public to join us for the physical execution of the 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.

Click here to apply for admission

If you have already submitted an application and would like to check the status of your application or find your student’s current wait list position, please visit the SchoolMint website at voyageracademy.schoolmint.net. You can log in with your user name and password to access your account information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you have forgotten your user name or password, you may also retrieve it by visiting the SchoolMint site as well.

Lottery details

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 150 total openings across all grades K-12 at the time of the lottery. Of those 150 openings, 100 of them are for our incoming kindergarten. Therefore, there are typically only 50 total openings that are available across 1st – 12th grades combined each year. The majority of the 50 openings are typically in 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 wait list if more openings become available.
    - We strongly encourage all who are interested in Voyager Academy to apply and attend the 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/staff children applying than spots available, there will be a lottery held among siblings and staff children.
    - 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. You must abide by all acceptance and registration stated deadlines or the offered seat will be forfeited.
    - Students not admitted through the lottery will be placed on a wait list. Students will be kept on the wait list throughout the school year. If a spot becomes available, we will contact students in order of their wait list number. Wait list status can be checked 24 hours a day/7 days a week through your SchoolMint account where you made the initial application for admission.
    - If a student does not get a space through the lottery/wait 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.

Post-Lottery and Enrollment Information

2019-20 Registration

Once the lottery concludes and you have received notice by text or email of whether your student was offered a seat, you MUST log in to SchoolMint to accept or decline the offer. Once you have accepted the seat, you will have access to the registration packet. You will then have until March 21, 2019 to complete and submit the registration packet and documents electronically. You must abide by all stated deadlines or your child’s seat will be forfeited.

Enrollment or registration questions? Contact Jayme Ung at (919) 433-3301 x:240 or jayme@CharterSuccessPartners.com.

Please be aware, for any openings that become available after the lottery is held, all communication will come from SchoolMint, either by text or email. Failure to meet deadlines provided at the time of offer will nullify the offer of admission.