Application for 26-27 School Year Open Now!

All K–12 students in California are eligible to apply.
To enroll, students must be up to date on all required immunizations.

HOW TO APPLY:

  1. Click https://elrio.schoolmint.com/login to apply!

  2. Create an account and submit an application per student.

    1. If more students apply than there is space within a grade, a lottery for that particular grade will be created. . Families will be notified of their enrollment status within two weeks of the lottery.  Anyone who applies outside of our open enrollment period will be admitted or placed on the waitlist on a first come, first served basis. Our lottery preferences are as follows (in no particular order)

      1. LAUSD residents (our independent charter is located within the attendance boundaries of LAUSD) 

      2. Children of El Rio Founding Parents, teachers, and staff (up to a cap of 10% of enrollment)

      3. Students who reside in the attendance area of Albion Elementary School (the closest elementary school to our location)

      4. Students who qualify for Free or Reduced Price meals.  To determine if your family is eligible, visit the CA Department of Education website: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/rs/scales1819.asp/ A family automatically qualifies if receiving food stamps, CalFresh, CalWORKs, Kin-GAP, or FDPIR or other public assistance. You or your children do not have to be a U.S. citizen to qualify for free or reduced price lunch.

  3. If a spot is offered for your child , you'll receive an email offer. Families will have one week to accept or decline via school mint application.

    1. If waitlisted, your waitlist number will be available for your viewing at any point via school mint application.

At El Rio, our mandate is to identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities who need special education and related services at no cost to families. We admit all children without regard to them having an existing IEP, assessments in progress, or any disability or learning challenge.

Does your child have an IEP? Here’s a guide to the IEP meeting process. Is your child having learning challenges? At El Rio, for incoming/new students without existing IEPs, we use the Student Success Team process to identify any learning issues in a collaborative process with school leadership, classroom teacher(s), and parents, utilize intervention as part of our pre-referral process, and assess for progress before moving to formal assessment in the IEP process. We are an independent charter authorized by LAUSD, and our special education program is part of LAUSD’s SELPA.

Please click here for A Parent’s Guide to Special Education, and click here if you’re puzzled by your child’s special needs for more information.