Enrollment Process & School Tours
Admissions 2025-2026
School year start date: August 25, 2025
School year start date: August 25, 2025
We will start accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year on October 1, 2024!
2025-2026 Enrollment Dates:
Applications received after January 31, 2025 will not be included in the lottery, but will be added to the end of their respective grades' waitlists. |
Please download our application pdf if you prefer to submit a hard copy.
Riix halkan si aad u soo dejiso foomka codsiga PDF. |
Admissions 2024-2025
School year start date: August 26, 2024 We are still accepting applications for the 2024-25 (current) school year! See the "Enrollment Process" section below. We currently have open places in Kindergarten and grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 for the 2024-2025 school year. You are welcome to apply for ANY grade to be added to our waitlist in case of a future opening. We continue to make offers throughout the school year as space becomes available. Please download our application pdf if you prefer to submit a hard copy. Riix halkan si aad u soo dejiso foomka codsiga PDF. |
How does the lottery work? In early March, the Twin Cities German Immersion School (TCGIS) holds an electronic lottery to place timely applicants on randomized waiting lists by grade for the following school year. Offers for enrollment for available spots in classrooms are made to applicants in mid-March based on the resulting grade-level waiting list order. Click here to learn more about the lottery process at TCGIS. Did you know? On average, 85% of Kindergarten applicants receive an offer by August 31! |
Age Requirement |
Any child who will be five years old by September 1 of the school year in which enrollment is sought is eligible to enroll in the Kindergarten program at Twin Cities German Immersion School.
For higher grades, the same standard of a child being 5 years old by September 1 of the year their grade level peers entered Kindergarten will determine enrollment qualification. |
Enrollment Process |
Enrollment Process for New Students: Enrollment opens each fall for the following academic year. The enrollment form is available beginning in November of each year and must be submitted by the application deadline for the subsequent school year. The enrollment form must be received by 4:00pm on the application deadline date.
If there are more enrollments than openings in any given class, Twin Cities German Immersion School will hold an electronic lottery. Applications received after the deadline will be automatically added to the bottom of the appropriate grade’s waiting list in the order they were received. Twin Cities German Immersion School will maintain a waiting list for every grade level in which there are more students than available spots for the subsequent school year.
In the event that there is one opening in a given class and the next two or more children on the waiting list for that same class are siblings, possibly, but not limited to twins, all sibling children will be admitted and the class size will be increased over the limit only to accommodate these siblings. No other children will be admitted from the waiting list until the class size drops to one below the limit. If the sibling is on the waiting list for a different class, they remain on the waiting list until a spot opens up.
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Enrollment Eligibility |
Enrollment in Twin Cities German Immersion School (TCGIS) is open to any child who resides in a Minnesota school district. The school district does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, sexual orientation, age, family-care leave status or veteran status. It does not discriminate in administration of its educational policies, administrative policies, or other school-administered programs.
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Knowledge of German Language |
German language proficiency is not a legal requirement to enroll at Twin Cities German Immersion School. German Language Proficiency is a skill that can benefit students of all abilities and the school encourages parents of all students to consider whether the immersion setting is right for their child. Research has shown that second language proficiency has a positive effect on first language skill development and that immersion students perform as well as or better than students in a monolingual setting. TCGIS offers individualized German support to students who join us in later grade levels.
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