How to enroll
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Step 1: Get in touch
Call the office, text, or write to us, in English, French or Haitian Creole. Someone answers within a school day and can say whether there is room in your child's grade.
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Step 2: Visit the school
Come for a visit day: a morning in a classroom and a talk with the head of school. Children come along, and parents hear a lesson in French.
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Step 3: Apply
The application asks about your family, the grade your child is entering and any French your child already knows. None is needed. Applications open in November for the fall.
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Step 4: Hear from us
Every family hears at the same time, in March, by letter and by phone.
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Step 5: Register
Sign the enrollment agreement to hold a place. Forms for health and pickup go to the office privately, once you enroll.
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Step 6: The first day
Families come for a short gathering on the first morning. Lunch and the day's schedule are explained then.
The admissions calendar
When to visit, apply and hear from us
Families apply almost a year before the first day. Open houses begin in the fall.
Open houses
October and January
Walk the building and hear a class in French.
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Visit days
One Tuesday morning a month, October to March
A morning in a classroom, then a conversation with the head of school.
Book a visit Applications open
November
For the fall that follows.
- Deadline
Application deadline
Early February
Every family hears at the same time.
Decisions
Mid-March
By letter and by phone, in English or in French.
- Deadline
Enrollment agreements
Early April
Signed to hold a place.
First day
Mid-August
Sample dates.
No French needed
Most of our families start from the beginning
Children who join in kindergarten and grade 1 learn French the way they learned their first words, through songs, pictures and play. Children who join later are placed in the grade that suits their age, and the teacher spends extra minutes with them in the first weeks. Tell us at the visit what your child already knows; we ask privately once you enroll for anything more.
Nondiscrimination notice
Ode French Immersion School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
Ready to look around?
Book a visit day, or call the office with a question.