MICANOPY AREA COOPERATIVE

• Click on the Lotterease button to complete an online application and enter your child into the lottery. You will receive a confirmation via email when this step has been completed (check SPAM).  
• Applicants will receive an email notification of the lottery results.  Applicants will continue to receive updates by email from Lotterease as students are selected for enrollment including the waiting list placement.  
• Once your student has been selected, you are required to:

1.  CONFIRM ATTENDANCE.  
2. Provide the required documents within 10 days to secure their enrollment. (listed below)
3. ONCE THE 25-26 year is open (April 1, 2025),  complete the "New Student online enrollment (NSOE)"   (Click here for PARENT GUIDE with directions and link to create an account)
   1.  NOTE for STEP 5 of New Student Enrollment: Additional District Forms
   2.  Zoned School: This is where you will indicate if your child will be attending a school that is different from their zoned school. The application will be routed to that school for confirmation. SELECT NO
   3. CHARTER SCHOOL = YES  THEN CHOOSE MICANOPY AREA COOPERATIVE SCHOOL

• We will offer two VPK classes for the 25-26 school year.  
• Complete the above enrollment process and submit required documents. 
• Apply for a Certificate of Eligibility for 2025-2026  issued by the Early Learning Coalition of Alachua County.  Click here for link:  VPK ENROLLMENT.  Submit signed Certificate to school.

When enrollment is complete notify Mrs. Bowman via email and attach the required documents.  If you are unable to email the required documents you may bring  to school or put in the drop box beside the front door (please notify us).  

Required Enrollment Documents:

• Two documents showing proof of residence.  This may be a rental or lease agreement, utility bill, deed, sales agreement or property tax bill.
• Shot Record - Florida Form DH680 (Immunization History is not sufficient) 
• Physical form - must be within one year of the date of enrollment
• Birth Certificate
• Certificate of Eligibility- VPK ONLY

Extended Day is available for a fee.  Click here to complete the registration form.

Enrollment into grades Kindergarten through fifth will be possible when there is an opening.  Once your online application is complete, you will be notified of your students acceptance into MACS or your student will be placed on the waiting list. 

Families may choose to continue their students enrollment annually with the enrollment intent form which is sent out annually at the beginning of February.   Class sizes are limited to 18 for grades K through 3 and 22 for grades fourth thru fifth with two classes for each grade.  For families with siblings, once the first student is enrolled, the sibling(s) will be moved up the waiting list.  Review our Enrollment Policy below for more details.

MACS admits students without regard to ethnicity, national origin, gender, or disability. In accordance with current state law on admission to charter schools, preference may be given to siblings of students already enrolled in the school, children and grandchildren of staff, members of the Board of Directors, the Board Advisory Committee, and children of an alumni student (defined as a student that completed the fifth grade at MACS), and shall be given to residents of Alachua County.
Since the design of the school is built around the unique assets of the Town of Micanopy, it is expected that the school will continue to serve primarily those families residing within a five-mile radius of the school. The lottery procedure considers the residency of the students seeking enrollment.

MACS abides by anti- discrimination provisions 1000.05 F.S. which forbids discrimination on the basis of race, nationality, origin, sex, handicap or marital status, against any student or an employee in a state system of public education.
Every student who registers for enrollment in MACS does so on a voluntary basis and the school will accept all students until a maximum capacity is reached or a random lottery drawing determines the student population. If the number of prospective students for admissions exceeds the school's capacity, a lottery system is used to provide applicants an equal chance of being admitted through a random selection process. If on March 1 of each year there are more local applicants than there are spaces in each grade, a lottery is held among local applicants only. Otherwise spaces are given to local applicants first and a lottery is held if needed among non-local applicants. Applicants who are not admitted are assigned to a waiting list according to the same lottery. New students may be admitted based on the existing waiting list and their residency.

1. Children or grandchildren of staff or Board members
2. Siblings of students already enrolled in the school
3. Micanopy residents and children of alumni students
4. Alachua County residents

• VPK Class A 20
• Kindergarten 36
• First Grade 36
• Second Grade 36
• Third Grade 36
• Fourth Grade 44
• Fifth Grade 44