New Enrollment
You will need New Enrollment forms to:
Enroll in Outlook Academy for the First Time
Outlook Academy accepts new enrollments year-round, although we prefer new enrollments during the summer between June 1 and September 5 of each school year. For mid-year enrollments, please allow up to two weeks for processing.
Re-enroll After a Previous Withdrawal from Outlook Academy
This is also the option to take if you have withdrawn your child from Outlook Academy, placed him or her in a school, and have now decided to withdraw from the school and enroll that child in Outlook Academy again. Although you are re-enrolling in Outlook Academy, your child is considered a new enrollment because we have to notify the superintendent that he or she is now enrolled with us rather than the school.
Re-enroll After the September 5 Deadline
This is also the procedure to follow if you did not re-enroll by the September 5 deadline for the upcoming school year. State regulations require us to notify the Board of Education if current members do not re-enroll by September 5. You may still re-enroll after this deadline; however, current members who re-enroll after this date are considered new families, so after September 5, you must follow these instructions for a new enrollment.
Please note: We accept seniors as new enrollments only during the summer before their senior year (between June 1 and September 5).
Check to the left to ensure you definitely need a New Enrollment, then follow these directions:
Mail the following to Outlook Academy:
Admission Form: This is a 3-page document, but you only need to fill out and mail pages 1 and 2 as the third page is a handy checklist for you. Be sure to sign it on page 2 (Church School/Teacher Agreement). Use the checklist on page three to ensure that you remember everything.
Church School Enrollment Form: Make as many copies as you need to ensure one form per student. Please be sure to sign it in two (2) places: Part I and Part III.
Standard business sized self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) for authorized forms sent back to you (Please note that postage usually increases every May!)
Check or money order (with your children's names written in the "For" section) in the amount of $125, which includes a one-time $30 enrollment fee and the annual $95 membership fee. All fees are per family, not per child. We cannot accept bank counter checks.
Join Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) online at www.hslda.org/join/. Indicate your membership in Outlook Academy and email us to get the group discount number for $20 off your HSLDA membership fee. Membership in HSLDA is strongly recommended for your protection; however, it is no longer required for enrollment in Outlook Academy.
Mail to the principal of the current/former school: the Withdrawal from Previous School and Request for School Records. Be sure to mail them Certified Mail/Return Receipt Requested to the principal of your child's former school, NOT to Outlook Academy. Copies of school records will be sent directly to you. Keep these on file wherever you keep your important papers. Do not forward them on to Outlook Academy. If the school refuses to send school records to you, email us for further information. Any school records sent to Outlook Academy will be filed or mailed to you at your written request and $5 postage fee.
As soon as we receive the completed Admission Form, Church School/Teacher Agreement and Church School Enrollment Form, we will sign and return the Church School Enrollment Form to you in the self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) you provide.
Make a copy of the Church School Enrollment Form for your records and mail the original Certified Mail/Return Receipt Requested to the Superintendent of your County or City School System. For detailed instructions and the addresses of all superintendents in Alabama, click here for Superintendents or on the menu above. Please be sure to mail this form as you are not homeschooling legally until it is filed with your local superintendent. DO NOT submit these forms in person! You will need proof that you filed, which is what the Certified Mail/Return Receipt Requested is for.
Important: Do not delay church school enrollment after withdrawing your child from public or private school. To avoid truancy charges, both Home School Legal Defense Association and Outlook Academy recommend that parents file the Church School Enrollment Form with the superintendent at the same time that they withdraw their children from public or private school.
Please note that we cannot accept faxed or scanned forms, credit cards, or PayPal. All forms must be original. We do accept checks and money orders made out to Outlook Academy.
Our fees are per family, not per child. However, if a partial family enrollment is processed mid-year, leaving one or more of your children in public school, an additional fee of $30 is due if you later decide to remove them from public school and add them to the family enrollment.
Fees cover the entire school year. There are no prorated fees and all fees are non-refundable. Our school year runs from July 1 through June 30, but families may start and end at any time or even school year-round.