Apply to ACLC

Now accepting applications for the 2025-26 school year!

Thank you for your interest in Alameda Community Learning Center. Please click on the buttons below to apply

You can also still apply for the 24-25 school year HERE. Spots may come open in selected grades.

To enroll your child for the year 2025-26 please click on the button below:

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Next Steps

How to get started

SchoolMint Online Enrollment is a secure, online enrollment system that allows parents/guardians to securely enter their child's information into an online database. 

  1. An email address is required to submit an online application.  The link to the application can be found through the "Apply Now" link.
  2. Please enter the requested information, and click "SUBMIT" in the bottom right corner.
  3. Once the application is submitted, the applicant will receive an email or text message confirmation.  
  4. While waiting for an offer, visit THIS PAGE to view a recorded information session and/or sign up for a live information session or tour.

After Receiving and Accepting an Offer of Admission

  1. Applicants who are offered a spot will have 7 days to accept their offer.  They will receive an email with information about creating an online-enrollment account.  
  2. Sign in to your account that you have already created.
  3. Complete the enrollment forms and upload a copy of the a birth certificate, proof of residency, one utility bill, copy of immunizations record, and parent/guardian ID.
  4. As a reminder, the required enrollment documents are:
    1. Your learner's birth certificate
    2. Legal Guardian ID (e.g. driver's license or passport)
    3. Current rental/lease agreement, property tax bill, or mortgage statement for learner's physical address
    4. A current utility bill for the learner's physical address (must be electricity, gas, water or garbage)
    5. Your learner's immunization record. Learner cannot start school without a complete immunization record on file.
    6. Transcripts for learners entering grades 7-12. Acceptances are contingent on space in courses needed based on transcript review.

Got questions?

Call 510-409-5755 or email our Admissions Manager.

Our Annual Application Timeline

October 15--Applications open for the following school year.
Each year in mid-October, ACLC begins accepting priority applications for the following school year. Families are welcome to apply regardless of residential address. However, our charter requires us to give priority to residents of the City of Alameda.
 
January 31--Deadline to apply in time for lottery.
All applications submitted between mid-October and January 31st are eligible for the lottery held in early February.  Offers of admission and wait list positions based on lottery results are emailed out and available to families in early February.
 
February (First Tuesday)--Lottery is held.
February through August--Families accept or decline spots. Further offers are made from wait lists.
Those receiving initial offers via the lottery have 7 days to accept or decline. As families accept or decline spots, we proceed down the grade-level wait lists until all available spaces are full. Wait list order is determined by priority and lottery placement, or, if you apply after January 31, by priority and date of application.