How to Apply

Semillas Community Schools aim to accommodate all students who apply for admission. When applications for admission exceed the number of spaces available, Semillas employs a lottery to determine admission. Spaces are allocated to form a student body that reflects the demographics of the region in which the school is located.

What's Next?

Parents who fill out an Interested Parent Form will be informed via phone and email about important dates of upcoming orientations where students will be selected to attend. If there are more students who want to enroll than there are spaces available, we will conduct a lottery. Priority will be given in the following order:

Children of founding members will be given priority in admission although these will constitute a small percentage of total student enrollment.
Children of employees of Semillas and siblings of enrolled students.
Children considered educationally disadvantaged by the State of California because of their home public school.
All other applicants.

If you have any questions regarding enrollment, please contact Kenya Barbosa at (323) 217-2775 or email us at [email protected]

Please note:

Age-Eligible Children

children MAY BE ADMITTED at the beginning of the school year if they will be five years of age on or before September 1 (EC Section 48000[a]).

Information about items constituting proof of age supplied by parent or guardian is found in EC Section 48002. Immunization requirements are found in Health and Safety Code Section 120325 and Section 120335 and on the CDE's Factbook Web page

Transitional Kindergarten

Transitional kindergarten (TK) is the first year of a two-year kindergarten program that uses a modified kindergarten curriculum that is age and developmentally appropriate. Senate Bill (SB) 858 establishes the intent that TK curriculum be aligned to the California Preschool Learning Foundations and California Preschool Curriculum Frameworks developed by the CDE. Each elementary or unified school district must offer TK classes for all children eligible to attend. A child who completes one year in a TK program, may continue in a kindergarten program for one additional year. A Kindergarten Continuance Form is not needed for children who are age-eligible for TK. A child is eligible for TK if they have their fifth birthday between September 2 and December 2 (inclusive) and each school year thereafter (EC 48000[c]).

However, pursuant to AB 104, EC 48000(c)(3)(B)(i) a school district or charter school may, at any time during a school year (including at the beginning of the school year) admit a child to a TK program who will have his or her fifth birthday after December 2 but during that same school year, with the approval of the parent or guardian, if the governing board of the school district or the governing body of the charter school determines that the admittance is in the best interests of the child and the parent or guardian is given information regarding the advantages and disadvantages and any other explanatory information about the effect of this early admittance. If these children continue in kindergarten past the anniversary dates of their TK admission, the school must have signed Kindergarten Continuance Forms on file to continue the children in kindergarten to the end of the school year, and to avoid jeopardizing audit findings and result in a loss of apportionment. Average Daily Attendance (ADA) can be claimed for these students once they attain the age of five (EC 48000(c)(B)(ii)).

REFERENCE: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/gs/em/kinderinfo.asp

Semillas Community Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, age, race, color, national or ethnic origin, or disability in administration of its admissions or educational policies, other School-administered programs, or in employment. The School complies with the amended Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.