Ed. Code, § 8953

The board of trustees shall adopt rules and regulations governing fees, applications, auditions, and admission procedures for the California State Summer School for the Arts, and any other procedure or operation necessary to implement the requirements of this chapter. The rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) The requirement that pupils admitted to the California State Summer School for the Arts be broadly representative of the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of the state.

(b) In order to be eligible for admission to the summer school, a pupil shall meet one of the following criteria:

(1) The pupil graduated, or will graduate, from junior high school at the end of the school year immediately preceding the summer school session for which he or she is applying.

(2) The pupil is currently enrolled in any of the grades 9 through 12.

(3) The pupil graduated from high school during the school year immediately preceding the summer school session for which he or she is applying.

(c) A pupil’s participation in the summer school shall not be credited toward the pupil’s completion of the course of study prescribed for graduation from high school, unless the pupil’s regular school of attendance tenders payment, no later than the last day of the summer school session, for all application and other fees and expenses charged to the pupil of a kind that would not be charged to a pupil enrolled in the public school system.