APPLICATION PROCESS
This is a self-managed application. Applicant is responsible for ensuring that all steps in the application process are completed.
Your application will be considered for admission upon the receipt of all applicable forms listed in Step 1.
STEP 1 – SUBMIT FORMS
Complete Application for Admission including current photograph of student, and a $100.00. non-refundable application fee. Application will not be processed without the fee.Check should be made out to the Dinoff School and mailed to 128 N. 5TH Street Griffin, Georgia, 30224.
Also, submit the following items:
Birth Certificate (all grades)
Immunization Form GA 3231(all grades) or religious waiver
Eye, Ear and Dental Form GA 3300
Copy of most recent report card
Transcript will be required upon final interview- Students with prior behavioral or disciplinary issues will NOT be admitted.
Student Gifted Qualification is required. This information may be obtained from your previous school if you were tested there. If not YOU MUST submit documentation to support one of the following:
There are several options available to meet these criteria.
Option A: Testing in Previous School as “gifted”: Testing of mental ability that denotes student as “gifted” will be accepted from a former school if performed in a school system in accordance with Georgia law.
Option B: Testing is available at The Dinoff School. We now offer the NNAT2 Naglierl Nonverbal Ability Test to help in evaluation of mental abilities. This nonverbal test provides a fair assessment regardless of a student’s primary language, education, culture, or socioeconomic background. The Otis Lennon, Cogat, and Torrence are also utilized.
Option C: Testing by an independent Psychologist will be accepted.
GPA from former school will not be acceptable alone in establishing level of academic achievement, as academic standards vary severely from school to school. Headmaster, however, does reserve the right to admit a student on a probationary period, after careful review of all school records, in cases where possible external variables during test administration may have intervened. Student will be placed on probation for one year in which a GPA of 3.0 must be maintained.
STEP 2 – INTERVIEW
Applicants will be contacted by the Admissions Office when application and all supplemental forms have been received. Not all applicants will be granted an interview due to the number of applications received. The Dinoff School will accept a MAXIMUM of one hundred students for each year.
STEP 3 – ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE REVIEW
Following the interview, student applications will be presented to the Admissions Committee for review. Parents will be notified of the committee’s decision.
Nondiscriminatory Policy
The Dinoff School admits students of any race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
The Dinoff School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its employment practices, educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, or other school administered programs.