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Hill Education Center

Enrollment Application

Is independent education right for you? Consider these reasons to apply:

  • Seeking an alternative to traditional schooling?
  • A self-starter and an independent learner?
  • In an extra-curricular competitive program and need a flexible school schedule?
  • Interested in online learning?
  • Easily distracted in a large classroom setting?
  • Work during the week?
  • Have tasks that make it difficult for you to attend school?
  • Suffer from anxiety and need a learning environment that allows you to learn in the comfort of your own home?
  • If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, NOVA may be the school for you!

    • Seeking an alternative to traditional schooling?
    • A self-starter and an independent learner?
    • In an extra-curricular competitive program and need a flexible school schedule?
    • Interested in online learning?
    • Easily distracted in a large classroom setting?

    • Work during the week?
    • Have tasks that make it difficult for you to attend school?
    • Suffer from anxiety and need a learning environment that allows you to learn in the comfort of your own home?
    • If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, NOVA may be the school for you!

Steps to Enrollment

  1. Talk to your school counselor.
  2. Print out and complete the  an application (linked below) before and include all required information (transcript or report card, attendance records, test scores, and IEP if applicable).
  3. If you live outside of NUSD, you must have an inter-district transfer before you can attend.
  4. If you have an IEP, the amendment must specify that independent study is recommended.
  5. Students except grades 6-8 must have a 2.0 GPA and satisfactory attendance to be eligible.
  6. Intake interviews are conducted twice a month from August through April.
  7. Application MUST be signed by school counselor before submitting.

 

Please note: The district retains the right to deny or revoke an intra/inter district transfer request upon discovery that the application has been falsified. (Board Policy & Regulation AR5116.1)

NOVA OFFERS

Grades 6-12

  • 1:1 instruction with a teacher for one hour, once a week
  • Co-enrollment at Novato High, San Marin High, College of Marin, and Santa Rosa Junior College
  • Small math labs in Algebra I and Geometry
  • Math tutoring twice a week