Admission Policy - Fountainhead School

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Objectives:

To ensure that school gets the maximum admissions possible without making compromise.
To have a fair and transparent policy for all parents
To make the admission process easy for parents and students.

Applicable to:

This policy applies to all parents seeking admission for their children at Fountainhead School.

Value (s) guiding policy:*

a) Value Term: Fairness, Excellence

b) Why:

Every student should get fair chance to get admission in school.
Always implement practices that continue to produce valued outcomes

Rationale:

Fountainhead School aims to provide high quality educational experience through a fair and transparent admission system and avoid unfair discrimination on grounds of disability, gender, religion or belief. The policy ensures proper admission procedure in respect to each application received for admission. It also seeks to set selection criteria which is transparent, fair and consistent.

Policy Guidelines:

Procedure for admission

Parent will have to purchase admission packet from the school during the specified date. If taken after the date of issuing forms, admission will be as per seat availability. (Form purchases does not guarantee admission)
Parent will have to complete the online process i.e., inquiry form and admission form.
Parents will have to submit required documents within the given period- parent can send the completed envelope with anyone if they do not wish to come to school/designated area.
HDFC bank deposit slips will be given with the form itself to ensure that parents need not come to school more than twice.
Once the documents are submitted and online process is completed assessment test and parent interaction will be conducted as per dates specified. The purpose of interaction is to understand their view regarding their child's admission in Fountainhead School.
Attendance of EFT Workshop is compulsory. Not attending the workshop WILL lead to cancellation of admission. All those who have submitted fees but not attended or late admission taken, and for all future admissions, it must be made clear that the parents must attend one of the next two workshops (if scheduled) or should watch video of EFT workshop in school , otherwise their admission will be cancelled and the fees will be refunded to them .

Primary/ Middle years (Grade 1-9)

After the above given procedure is completed assessment test will be conducted for student to know their capability and if the child will be able to cope up with the school's methodology.
After the child has cleared the assessment test intimation will be sent via email, phone or sms.
Results will be announced within 3 working days.
Payment of one time admission fees and security deposit to be done within 5 working days.

Early Years (Nursery, JK, SK)

For early years no assessment test will be conducted.
Parent interaction will be done and they will have to submit a recommendation letter from the previous school. As we do not take assessment test, this letter helps us to understand if the child has any special need, behavioral issue s/he has, skill development and other progress/lacking areas. Recommendation letter format will be provided from our school.
Once the interaction is done the child's parent will be intimated via phone, email or sms.
Payment of fees within five days after results.

Rejected Parents/Admission offered:

For already issued forms: If fees is not submitted within the new given deadline, the form will stand cancelled. The parents will be welcome to come back and fill up the form as per availability of seats and follow the same procedure as any other parent. However, they will be given lower priority than an altogether new parent, if there is an issue of seat availability.
If we have limited seats or no seats availability, students will be in waitlist criteria (to follow admission criteria policy )

Waitlist Criteria for Admission:

Admissions will be granted as per below given criterias:

Basic Criteria

1	Attended EFT Workshop (compulsory)
2.	All Documents signed and submitted (compulsory)
3	For Early Years - Recommendation form signed and submitted or Interaction with parents For Primary and Middle years - Assessment and interaction with parent.
3.	Form taken and submitted within the specified dates or when admissions are open.
4.	Students without any special needs.

Categories

1	Reserved for staff if any till March
2.	Sibling studying at FS
3	FP Students (Fountainhead Preschool)
3.	Applied for admission for both sibling
4.	Others

For other categories

Early Years (Criterion)

Primary and Middle Years (Criterion)

Girls (First preference will be given to girls for admission)
Admission dept. will check first that whether candidate has cleared the assessment test with minimum mark set for the specific grades.
Random- candidates will be picked up randomly through chit system in presence of parents.
Girls (First preference will be given to girls for admission)
Random- candidates will be picked up randomly through chit system in presence of parents.

Students will be listed as per above given criteria.
We can ask parents (max 5 nos, who have already attended EFT workshops) to fill up the form, explain them criterias of admission and where they stand.

Important Note:

The school will not ask for any donation for granting admissions. The fee structure is transparent & all of it needs to be accordingly communicated.
The admission process does not ask for any religious/caste//political/social affiliations & is agnostic to this. Parents too must be aware of that same applies to them. We do not want any interference in this matter.