- Host school is secondary and receives financial assistance
- Already have a limited open forum, which means that at least one student-led, non-curriculum club that meets outside of class time
- Attendance is voluntary
- Group is student-initiated
- Group is not sponsored solely by the school, teachers and/or faculty, school employees, or the government.
- Group is not disruptive
- Persons of the community that are not students may not "direct, conduct, control, or regularly attend meetings"