& Admission Criteria
All new students and their families must be interviewed before admission
to Greenleaf Friends Academy. Students and families are expected
to bring a completed Application
Packet (
),
including the following forms:
- Letter of Intent
- Application for Admission
- Parental Committment
- General Health Questionnaire
- Request for Transfer of Student Records
- Reference Form (to be submitted by current or previous teacher)
New students/families are also required to sign and have on file in the school office an agreement to comply with standards outlined in the GFA Student-Parent Handbook before students attend any classes. Students in grades K-8 may be required to take a placement exam.
The interview will result in a recommendation for preferred admittance, provisional admittance, or denial of admission based on the following general admission criteria. Recommendations will be shared with students/families in a timely manner.
ADMISSION CRITERIA
All students are admitted under a 90-day administrative review.
Preferred:
- Students come from a Christian family, have a clear testimony, and attend a Bible-based church.
- Reasons for sending children to the school are spiritual as well as academic/athletic.
- Children seem to be academically prepared to cope with the level of performance expected by the school.
- Family life seems to be wholesome and stable.
- There is evidence of a wholehearted support for the school and its standards.
- Secondary school children want to come to school at GFA.
- Children give evidence of being disciplined and parents support a disciplined environment.
Provisional:
- Christian testimony unclear -- no strong Christian background.
- Non-Christian, yet evidence a desire for biblical teaching.
- Reasons for application are primarily academic or athletic, but parents and/or students feel Christian principles and training may be beneficial.
- Parents place an emphasis on discipline and the desire for it in the education of their children.
- No serious discipline or academic problems.
Students admitted on provisional status will have their admittance reviewed after 9½ weeks. Students not meeting academic or behavioral standards may be placed on academic probation or behavioral contract for the next 4½ weeks. Students who have not complied with GFA's standards after this period are subject to dismissal, with appeal to the Board. After one semester, students admitted on provisional status who have met GFA academic and behavioral standards will be granted preferred status.
Denied:
- Serious differences with the school's Biblical base and/or doctrine.
- Motivation to enroll children is only academic or athletic.
- Child evidences a background of academic, discipline, or learning problems that are beyond the school's reach.
- Family life is questionable or unstable.
- History of drug or alcohol usage.
- History of legal problems.
- History of sexual misconduct.
- The administration or interviewing committee recommends that the application not be accepted.
Returning Students:
Each Spring, before pre-registration is offered to returning students, GFA Administration and faculty will review the current student body to identify students who have not met the academic and/or behavioral standards of the school. They will conference with individual students and parents to consider what criteria must be met before registration will be accepted for the next school year.
Annually, all returning students/families are required to sign and have on file in the school office an agreement to comply with standards outlined in the GFA Student-Parent Handbook before students attend any classes.
For more information, call the school business office at (208) 459-6346 or write to:
Greenleaf Friends Academy
P.O. Box 368
Greenleaf, ID 83626
gfa@cableone.net