All students living in Philadelphia and entering grades K-12 are eligible to apply through the online application found HERE.
Kindergarten applicants MUST be five (5) years old by September 1st of the school year for which they are applying.
Applicants living outside of Philadelphia, but still residents of Pennsylvania, may apply but are entered into separate waitlists from the lottery waitlists for Philadelphia resident applicants. Non-Philadelphia waitlists are organized on a first come first serve basis.
Once all Philadelphia resident applicants have been seated to fill the school's enrollment cap, should a vacancy arise in a particular grade to which Pennsylvania residents living outside of Philadelphia also have applied, then such students may be selected to fill vacancies that may exist above the cap for Philadelphia residents.
Only after all attempts have been made to seat Philadelphia students, including second-phase marketing, will Philadelphia Performing Arts seat a student from outside Philadelphia for any vacancy beneath the enrollment cap.
Students living outside of Pennsylvania are not permitted to apply.