A key statistic provided by the state Department of Education complicates the trend found in Figure 3: while state charter schools overall have a lengthy waitlist, not every charter school is at capacity, because
the total number of students attending charter schools is lower than the total maximum enrollment allowed under charters authorized by the cap (Figure 6).
The total tuition amount owed by a sending district to a charter school shall be the per pupil tuition amount as defined above, multiplied by
the total number of students attending the charter school from that district in the current fiscal year.
Not exact matches
And in most cases, these
numbers are lower than the
total demand because
of either caps they have been put in place by lawmakers or the simple fact that we can not open enough new
charter schools to serve all the
students that would like to
attend.
The enrollment figures are also significant, as
charter school students now represent 7 %
of the
total number of students attending public
schools in California.
If the
total number of students who are eligible to
attend and apply to a
charter school and who reside in the city or town in which the
charter school is located or are siblings
of students already
attending said
charter school, is greater than the
number of spaces available, an admissions lottery, including all eligible
students applying, shall be held to fill all
of the spaces in that
school from among the
students.