ENROLLMENT
As a non-profit organization, Untitled No. 1 provides scholarships to maintain a high-quality learning environment in which a balance across family income levels is maintained. As a community school, 90404 residents are prioritized for admission. Two-thirds of all enrolled families qualify for part or full scholarship, based on need. Once income-based eligibility is determined, precedence is given to those commuting from the closest distance and not by car occupied by one adult/one child. Carpooling, walking, bicycling, and bus and Expo-riding are strongly encouraged.
If the number of applications within an income group exceeds our capacity creating a ‘wait pool’ then additional diversities may be considered (e.g., language) to enrich the composition of the learning environment. Only if needed, a lottery may be instituted as a last step in the admissions process.
NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY
At Untitled No. 1 School no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, nor for association with a person or group with one or more of these characteristics.
Furthermore, Untitled No. 1 School shall be non-sectarian in its programs, admissions policies, employment practices, and all other operations.
Beyond our legal obligation to act within our non-discriminatory policy, we feel the moral obligation to act on our belief that bias portends discrimination. We are anti-bias across the board: anti-racist and against biases based on a person's gender, sexuality, and abilities. Our commitment is rooted in action, and includes exploration and everyday conversations with children. We seek to create a more just society together with our families with whom we share a mutual commitment to undo and prevent ongoing damage caused by the exclusion of any person from what is their due right and from playing their full role in an ever-advancing civilization.
Untitled No. 1 is a two-year school, licensed for age 3 to entry to first grade. We begin with age 3 but do not adhere firmly to a specific birth date as a condition of enrollment. Most of the day is spent in multi-age learning settings alongside 4 and 5 year olds. The two years at Untitled No. 1 set children on a learning path that can continue in elementary schools, either public or private, and we facilitate this transition for families through the strong relationships Untitled No. 1 has with both in our vicinity.
So far (in our first six years) our children have gone on to Brawerman, Citizens of the World, Crossroads, John Thomas Dye, The Oaks School, Ocean Charter, UCLA Lab School, Wildwood, as well as Edison Language Academy, SMASH, and other wonderful local Santa Monica public schools.
APPLY
The Application for 2025 - 26 is linked here, and 2022 birth dates will be preferred. (See previous paragraph on birth dates.) We adhere to the Common Notification Date of fellow area preschools which will be February 27, 2025. Signed Admission Agreements are due with deposit by noon on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. After that date incoming Applications will be held in a wait pool.
All interested families are invited to follow these steps:
1. Contact us via email untitledno.1school@gmail.com to express interest in applying. Please include your child’s date of birth and your residence zip code. You will receive a reply acknowledging that you are being added to our list of prospective applicants.
2. Submit an Application. Untitled No. 1 does not collect a fee for applications submitted. All complete applications will receive a reply. Indicate on your Application if you are requesting tuition assistance. Families earning up to 200% of Santa Monica median income** may request a scholarship by submitting an IRS Form 4506T-EZ to the IRS for Tax Return Transcripts of 2023, 2022, and 2021. These required Tax Return Transcripts can most quickly be obtained online at the IRS website. (Scholarships are awarded to income eligible families as described at the top of this page. 90404 residents receive first priority for admission.)
3. Space allowing, you will be contacted by the founder and director to schedule an individual family tour of our site. Bring your child! Our private conversation on this tour is designed to support your evaluation of whether or not this is a school in which you and your child will feel at home.
4. Once formal admission offers are extended with tuition contracts on Feb 27, we request they be returned no later than the date/time specified (March 4 by noon) together with a non-refundable deposit that is applicable toward tuition.
September – August tuition is $24,000, payable annually, semi-annually (July and January), or in 11 installments. The tuition payment amount for scholarship recipients is adjusted according to the agreement made in the tuition contract. One-third of families will pay full tuition, one-third will receive full scholarships, and one-third will receive partial scholarships and pay partial tuition (on a sliding scale). **Ex.: up to $153,160 for a family size 4 is eligible for a partial scholarship.
To offset the full scholarships we offer to one-third of our families, we expect they will either pre-apply or simultaneously apply for a subsidy through Connections for Children, our regional resource and referral agency.