Overview

Primarily, ALC Mosaic operates a private school for Self-Directed Education for ages 5-14 (K-8). Below outlines the admissions process for enrolling young people in our school. If you are interested adult coworking in our community without school enrollment, please see our coworking page for more info and next steps.

Admissions for our Private School

Highlights

Flexible admissions schedule: Currently accepting applications for the 2024-25 school year, based on space availability.

Rolling enrollment: Since each student’s experience is self-directed and emergent, there are several mid-year enrollment options. Tuition is prorated for the portion of the school year enrolled.

Tuition: Tuition is offered on a sliding scale, making ALC Mosaic the most affordable private school in Charlotte, NC. Learn more about our sliding scale tuition structure.

Admissions Process

Step 1: Research: Explore the ALC educational model and our comprehensive FAQ page . Visit our Resources page to find links to articles, websites, videos & books that have inspired the school.

Learn more about Self-Directed Education to understand the underlying philosophy of our school.

Step 2: Request an Admissions Packet. To initiate our enrollment process, please request an Admissions Packet by filling out this form. The Admissions Packet is a series of resources, documents, and presentations that we’ve put together to help inform and set context for joining ALC Mosaic. It’s all online and self-paced.

Step 3: Tour the campus. Once you’ve submitted applications and tuition offers, we’ll invite you to tour the campus with our Director of Operations, ideally, during day we are in session. We want to you see what ALC looks like in action and get your questions answered.

Step 4: Apply. After you complete the Admissions Packet, we’ll send you our online applications for enrollment in our school for your children.

Step 5: Visiting Week: If we are all feeling aligned after the family interview, we’ll invite you and your child for a visiting week. A visiting week allows the family to experience what it is like to be here and lets us to make sure our community can effectively support and integrate the new family. Your child can attend a one or two week “trial period” ($100.00 for one week; $175 for two weeks). This longer visit allows students to participate in the variety of experience at Mosaic since each day is different.

Step 6: Family Interview & Final Enrollment: At the conclusion of the visiting week, we’ll seek feedback from other ALC kids and facilitators. We’ll sit down with all active parents in your family to do a final check on alignment and discuss what support may be involved in integrating your family into our community.

If we are all in alignment around enrollment, you will complete your enrollment by paying a deposit of 20% of the annual tuition offer and executing the final enrollment documents.

After Enrollment: Meet with the director or a lead facilitator at the end of your first session of enrollment and again at the end of your third session of enrollment to have time to talk about your child’s experience at Mosaic, ask questions, and hear any other important information about being enrolled at Mosaic from a staff member. 

Ongoing Support & Connection: Our staff thoughtfully creates a self paced, online mini course for caregivers to take on their own time throughout each school year. The course is to assure the ongoing care we desire all enrolled families to take to support our mission and vision statement as a school as we strive to be a safe campus for all races, ages, physical abilities, ethnicities, religious and spiritual groups, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, and gender expressions.