Enrollment

Welcome to TSA

Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in Toledo School for the Arts. TSA is a tuition-free public community school open to Ohio residents entering grades 6 – 12 that teaches academics through integration of the visual and performing arts. Due to high demand, enrollment is via lottery. See the FAQ section for important lottery application deadlines and information.

There are several opportunities available to you to find out if our school and community are the right fit for you

First Fridays

First Fridays are open to the public and a perfect opportunity to see TSA during the school day. They are for potential students and their parents / guardians, donors, community members, families and friends of TSA. These are hosted on the first Friday of each month and run throughout the school year.

A reception begins at 9 a.m. with visual arts and academic displays followed by a special half-hour performance. After the performance, student-led tours of the building are available.

This is a chance for families (parents / guardians and students) to experience what TSA is like during a typical school day. You can anticipate being in the building for 1 1⁄2 to 2 hours.

Reservations are appreciated (email us or call 419-246-8732 ext. 256).

Events and Performances

TSA hosts many events and performances throughout the year. Check out our events page for more information about upcoming events that you can attend.

Take some time to watch and listen to some of our events on our Arts Watch page. There are some large scale events that require a fee to view, but there is so much free content – First Fridays, Vlogs, Podcasts, etc. – that give you an amazing look into TSA. The best part is that it can be done at your convenience and from your own home. You can click on the Arts Watch link located on this page to explore some of the items available for free viewing.

Social Media

You can find out a lot about what’s happening at TSA by following us on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram

Enrollment FAQ

Due to high demand, Toledo School for the Arts has more students interested in attending than we have space for. Enrollment at TSA is open to Ohio residents entering grades 6 – 12 and is via lottery.

Important dates for enrollment for the 2023-2024 school year

Lottery applications available online on the TSA website beginning October 1st

ALL supporting documents due into TSA no later than 3:00 p.m. on Friday, January 26, 2024

Toledo School for the Arts Lottery for the 2024-25 School year will be held on Friday, February 23, 2024

Next Step Day (by invitation only) Saturday, March 23, 2024

All lottery applications that are missing supporting documents or submitted after the deadline will not qualify to be entered into the lottery and will only go at the end of the wait list for your grade level by request.

After you fill out your initial lottery application, please allow 24 hours for us to import it into our system.

After 24 hours, it is your responsibility to log back in to your online portal (where you filled out your lottery application) and view your supporting document checklist. The checklist is individualized and generated based on the information provided on your students’ lottery application.

ALL document checklist items need to be submitted prior to Friday, January 27, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. to qualify to enter the 2023-24 school year lottery. You can scan and upload them yourself or you can bring them into TSA during the hours of 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Examples of supporting document checklist items required: immunization records, grade cards (current grade report and final 2021-22), proof of residency, birth certificate, standardized test scores from the past two years, and if applicable: current full year schedule, transcript showing earned high school credits, current IEP and ETR, custodial paperwork, or home school portfolio.

Older students applying to enter the lottery should be aware that TSA has specific and more stringent requirements for graduation than the State requires. A few examples are a high number of arts credits and two credits of the same foreign language. There are many times that an older student (primarily incoming 10th, 11th or 12th graders) will not have enough room in their schedule to meet all of the specific TSA graduation requirements in one, two or three years’ time, even if they have not previously lost any credit in school. We will review transcripts and provide feedback throughout the enrollment process. For a specific list of TSA graduation requirements, please see our student handbook by clicking this link: student handbook.

Due to the volume of lottery applications, the majority of communication from Toledo School for the Arts during the lottery application process will be via email. Please be aware of this method of communication and if you do not see correspondence from us, check your spam folders!

TSA will be in touch with you throughout the lottery application process. We will contact you to remind you that you have missing documents, if we need an update to a document you provided or we will email you a lottery number.

If you have submitted all of your documents and have not received a lottery number by February 22, please email us.

Please be aware that review is a process involving several departments. The review process is not immediate and the lottery application and supporting documents can and may remain under review throughout the entire enrollment process which may extend far beyond the lottery including up to and until official enrollment. We can and may request document updates and verification throughout the entire enrollment season.

No. Your lottery number is just verification that you have met all requirements to enter the lottery. The lottery is the method to randomly assign students to a wait list. Wait lists are generated by grade level. Every person that completed their lottery application and submitted all of their required documents prior to lottery deadline will be entered into the lottery and be placed on a wait list for their grade based on the order their lottery number was drawn.

The TSA lottery is held on the last Friday in February each year with results posted by 5:00 p.m. TSA holds a separate lottery for every grade level. Wait lists are generated by the random draw lottery by grade level.

Toledo School for the Arts will schedule a Next Step Day for students. An invitation to the Next Step Day does not guarantee that there will be an offer of a space or acceptance. Please be aware that we do invite more people to the Next Step Day than we have spaces for. This helps facilitate the wait list process.

Invitations will be sent for the Next Step Day determined by grade by the lottery wait list order. Appointments will be scheduled individually based on lottery numbers drawn and are necessary and required for admission should a space become available. This Next Step Day is held solely to assist in the scheduling process and to determine appropriate skill levels (beginning, intermediate and advanced for example). This does NOT determine entrance into TSA.

It depends on what grade level you are entering. TSA now has an average of 100 students per grade level.

Because TSA is a 6 – 12 grade school, we need to fill the entire 6th grade. We will have approximately 95 spaces to offer to new 6th graders.

If your student is entering the 7 – 12 grade, we do not know how many spaces we will have to offer. Current students are given the opportunity to re-enroll the following school year. Everyone in grades 7 – 12 entering the lottery will be wait listed. As spaces become available in your grade, we will contact families in the order of the wait list.

Initial 2023-24 offers will be made to students on the wait lists in May. Offers will continue to be made throughout the summer as spaces open at each grade level. Wait lists for the 2023-24 school year will expire on September 30, 2023.

Non-Discrimination Notice

The Toledo School for the Arts does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or sexual orientation, gender or gender expression, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to designated youth groups. The following person triages and intakes initial inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies:

Erica Leverette-Traoré, Human Resources and Diversity Manager
Toledo School for the Arts
333 14th Street, Toledo, OH 43604
(419) 246-8732