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American Dream Charter School 2 is a public charter school offering open admission for students who live in New York State and will not discriminate against any student based on disability, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other basis. Our school is dedicated to serving the needs of the community and will not require students to complete testing or other forms of assessment in order to be admitted.

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  • Lottery Date: April 1, 2026

    Applications are available here. The application will request that parents provide basic information regarding the student’s address, prior school, grade level and sibling status. The application will also include an optional space to designate whether the child is an English Language Learner (ELL). If an applicant chooses not to provide this optional information, the applicant will not be disqualified from admission (although the applicant will not receive the admissions preference).

  • Enrollment Period

    All applications received up until and on March 31st will be included in the April 1st lottery. A lottery will only be conducted if the number of applications exceeds the number of places available at The American Dream School II.


    Students will be notified via mail and by phone call of their acceptance following the lottery. Families of accepted students will be required to submit an expression of interest form confirming their student’s intent to attend The American Dream School II. Parents will then be invited to a more detailed information session about the school, where they will complete all required school enrollment paperwork. All required materials will be due by May 15th of each year.

    Once the first round of notifying admitted students has been completed, ADS II staff will begin a new round of communication to contact waitlisted students in order of their waitlist number. The waitlist will be structured using the same preferences as the admissions lottery. For example, if an ELL student that resides in district 6 is added to the waitlist, instead of being added to the end of the entire waitlist, this student would be added to the end of the group of waitlisted students with the same district 6 and ELL preferences. Students will only be removed from the waitlist if they decline acceptance or do not respond after two rounds of notifications.

  • How Our Lottery Works

    American Dream Charter School will hold its admissions lottery on Monday, April 1, 2026. Applicants chosen in the lottery will receive an email and or text the same day and letter in the mail a few days after the lottery. Applicants not chosen in the lottery receive notification informing them that they have been waitlisted.

    In the event of the need for a lottery, admission preference will be granted in the following manner:

    First Preference: Students indicating on the admissions application that they are English Language Learners (ELLs) and who reside in Community School District 6.

    Second Preference: Students who reside in Community School District 6.

    Third Preference: Students indicating on the admissions application that they are English Language Learners (ELLs) and who reside outside of Community School District 6 but within New York State.

    Fourth Preference: Students who reside in New York State but outside of Community School District 6.

 

“The students are sweet to one another in a way I haven’t seen at other schools, when an English Language Learner comes to this country and to our school, the other students sit next to them in class and help them with their work, and sit with them at lunch.”

— Kayla Benton, Middle and High School English Language Learner Coordinator