Thank you for your interest in Nova Classical Academy! We are a free Minnesota public K-12 charter school providing a systematic, accelerated, college-preparatory education in the classical tradition.

Admissions for 2024-2025: For the current academic year, (2024-2025), we are at capacity in all grades except 12th. Apply to have your student added to our waitlist.

Admissions for 2025-2026: Our Enrollment Lottery will be held in mid-February and results will be emailed immediately following. If you have not yet applied and would like to have your student added to the waitlist once it is created in the Enrollment Lottery, apply now and your waitlist position will be emailed once the application is processed.

Admissions for 2026-2027: Our enrollment application opens every year on November 1st at 8 AM for the following academic year. The application is not first come first served but we collect all the applications received between November 1 at 8 AM and January 31 at 4 PM and enter them into our mid-February enrollment lottery. The results of the lottery are emailed out immediately to the contacts on the application. After the lottery window closes on January 31 at 4 PM, all applicants are placed on the waitlists in the order received; there is a significant advantage to applying during the enrollment lottery window. The waitlists do not carry over from year to year so you must reapply for admission for each academic year and grade that you are interested in enrolling. **All applicants for kindergarten MUST be 5 by September 1 of the year they wish to start kindergarten. 

Enrollment Offers:  When a student is accepted, an offer of enrollment will be sent by email to the address(es) on the application.  Please be mindful of the deadline to accept in the enrollment offer email.  If your student does not receive an offer of enrollment for the 2024-25  or 2025-26 academic years, please consider reapplying for the 2026-27 academic year when that application opens this November.

Tours and Info Sessions: If you missed out on our enrollment events for prospective families this season, please explore our website and newsletters for information about our educational and extracurricular offerings. If your student is offered enrollment, we will do what we can to make sure you feel informed to be able to make that decision. For new enrolling students, we have onboarding sessions to smooth the transition to attending. For incoming kindergarten families, we have a series of events to welcome the new class of 2037!

Every November, we host an Enrollment Open House in November for prospective families. You can register here for our Enrollment Mailing List using this link. If you have any other questions, please email enrollment@novaclassical.org.

Thank you for your interest in Nova Classical Academy.

As a free Minnesota public charter school, we have a free and easy online application here as well as a paper version in the main office that we will enter for you into our application database. We have an “on-time application window” from November 1 at 8 AM – to January 31 at 4 PM every year for the following year’s enrollment. We process all these on-time applications and run a 3-tiered lottery on them in mid-February for openings and for the ordering of the grade-level waitlists. The three (3) tiers are:

1. Siblings of currently enrolled students

2. Children of current staff

3. General applicants

Lottery results are available in the application portal and are emailed out. After the lottery, we do accept applications and make offers where space allows or add applicants to waitlists in the order their applications were received. As we run at capacity in most grades, we are only able to offer out spots when a currently enrolled student unenrolls; then, we pull from the waitlists. These waitlists do not carry over from year to year. Applicants must reapply for each new academic year.

We are not currently hosting tours, but we do have a virtual tour on our website, as well as information about our educational program and extracurriculars on our website. As we make plans for the upcoming enrollment season in the fall, refer back to this website for updates on information events.

If you have any specific questions or any trouble applying, please contact us at: enrollment@novaclassical.org