Parents making application for the 2008/2009 school year should follow steps 1 – 4 given below. If you wish to make application for the remainder of the 2007/2008 school, please call the admission department.
- Complete and submit an application, a signed Statement of Faith, and a signed Cooperation Agreement. Forms are available from the admission department or can be downloaded (see button uner picture).
- Submit the following items (individual pages inside the apllication document) to the appropriate person(s) at your child’s current school (one per child). Please provide teachers with pre-addressed envelopes, stamped and ready for mailing to The Geneva School, to facilitate a timely response.
- Request for Copies of Records (Grades 1 - 12)
- Administrator Reference Form (Grades 3 - 12)
- Teacher Reference Form (Grades 3 - 6)
- English Teacher Reference Form (Grades 7 - 12)
- Math Teacher Reference Form (Grades 7 - 12)
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- Schedule an admission assessment: Parents making application for students entering grades pre-K–4 should schedule an assessment with the Geneva admission department (the assessment usually takes between 1–1½ hour). Parents making application for students entering grades 5–12 should schedule their child to take the ISEE test at www.iseetest.org. When registering for the ISEE, please request scores to be sent to The Geneva School (see notes below regarding the ISEE test).
Please note: It is necessary to register at least three weeks in advance for one of the test dates listed below.
Dates for Admission Assessments and ISEE Testing
December 6, 2008 (Deadline to Register: November 15)
January 24, 2009 (Deadline to Register: January 3)
February 28, 2009 (Deadline to Register: February 7)
March 28, 2009 (Deadline to Register: March 7)
- Schedule an interview with an administrator: Parents should schedule an interview with an administrator by contacting Candy Houk. The administrator will meet with the parents of students entering grades pre-K – 4. For students entering grades 5 – 12 we request that the student also attend the interview.
Prospective students who have completed the admission process will receive an admission decision by the following dates.
Admission Test Date |
Admission Decision |
November, December, and January |
February 8 |
March |
March 28 |
April |
April 25 |
May |
May 30 |
(Applicants are deemed to have a completed the admission process if the admission office has a complete application, copies of records and reference forms have been received from the student’s current school, and the interview has taken place.)
All applicants for grades Pre-K - 4 are expected to take an admission assessment with a Geneva School faculty member on one of the scheduled test dates. All local applicants for grades 5–12 are expected to take the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE). The admission committee may accept results from the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) from applicants outside Orlando and the surrounding area and from other states.
A current Comprehensive Testing Program CTP-4 through ERB may be accepted in lieu of the ISEE as long as the test was taken within six months of the application deadline date.
Applicants who have taken the Pre-Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT), Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), or ACT as a high school student may not need to take the ISEE. Call the Admission Office if you have questions regarding testing.
The Independent School Entrance Examination (ISEE) is a three-hour admission test for entrance into grades five through twelve. The ISEE has three levels: a Lower Level for students currently in grades four and five who are candidates for admission to grades five and six, a Middle Level for students in grades six and seven who are candidates for admission to grades seven and eight, and an Upper Level for students in grades eight to eleven who are candidates for admission to grades nine through twelve.
The ISEE consists of carefully constructed and standardized verbal and quantitative reasoning tests that measure a student’s capability for learning, as well as reading comprehension and mathematics achievement tests that provide specific information about an individual’s strengths and weaknesses in those areas. All levels include a timed essay written in response to an assigned topic. The essay is not scored, but a copy is forwarded to the recipient schools along with the Individual Student Report, which shows scaled scores, percentiles, and stanines.
You should register at least three weeks in advance for one of the test dates listed above at www.iseetest.org. The Geneva School’s test site code is 102100.
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