Enrollment FAQ

Students are accepted through a lottery process. Excelsior Academy will hold a lottery twice a year, and through the lottery students are placed on a waitlist. As seats become available in each grade, students are invited, beginning at the top of the waitlist, to fill any vacancies. 

Excelsior Academy is chartered to enroll 1,415 total students. In grades K-5, 135 students per grade, and in grades 6-8, 200 students per grade.

Parents are contacted through email and a phone call. Please remember to keep all contact information updated. Further information on the registration process is given once the school is notified of your intent to enroll in Excelsior Academy.

The first group of students that are accepted will be notified within 5 business days of holding the lottery. Parents are given a period of time to accept or decline enrollment.

The process is continued for any openings throughout the school year.

Only students who have been accepted from the wait list are notified. If you do not hear from us you can assume nothing has changed with your enrollment status.

Utah Code 53A-1a-506.5 Charter school students - Admissions procedures - Transfers: (3) The parent of a student enrolled in a charter school may withdraw the student from the charter school for enrollment in another charter school or a school district by submitting to the charter school: 

(a) on or before June 30, a notice of intent to enroll the student in the student's school of residence for the following school year; 

(b) after June 30, a letter of acceptance for enrollment in the student's school district of residence for the following year; 

(c) a letter of acceptance for enrollment in the student's district of residence in the current school year; 

(d) a letter of acceptance for enrollment in a nonresident school district; or 

(e) a letter of acceptance for enrollment in a charter school.