Enrollment

Open Enrollment for the 2025-2026 school year is from November 1, 2024, to January 24, 2025. 

Pre-enrollment forms can be completed online,  downloaded and printed from our website, or picked up at the school. You may email completed forms to [email protected], mail them to the school with “Attention to Lyn Adkinson,” or drop them off there.

Completed forms must be received by 3 PM, Friday, January 24, 2025, to be included in the lottery. The lottery will be held Thursday, January 30, 2025, at 5 PM in the PCA lunchroom. After the lottery, all spots or waiting lists are filled in the order they are received. Enrollment will remain open until the following year's open enrollment.  

Important Information regarding enrollment and the lottery:

• Students already enrolled in PCA (except Pre-K) remain enrolled yearly unless a parent withdraws the student.  These students do not have to complete a pre-enrollment form.
• Students in PCA Pre-K must complete pre-enrollment for Kindergarten. Pre-K is not part of our charter contract, so unfortunately, by law, we cannot give them priority in Kindergarten. Parents enrolling students in Pre-K should also remember this for next year.
• Siblings of existing PCA students will get priority in the lottery. However, you must still complete a pre-enrollment form for the new student.  Be sure to complete the sibling section to ensure priority.
• The only criteria for enrolling in Pataula Charter Academy are to live in one of the seven counties served: Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph, Terrell, or Miller. If the school has fewer spaces available than students applying for enrollment, a random lottery will be held to determine which students will be enrolled.

***Please maintain documentation that the school received your pre-enrollment application.  If you hand-deliver, you should receive a "receipt notification" from the Record's Clerk.  If you email, please keep the response email stating the application was received.  If you mail your application, you should follow up with a call to ensure it was received if you do not receive a notification of receipt by mail.