Lottery
Lottery and Admission Procedures
- Relevant State laws and regulations will have precedence in all lottery procedures where a conflict exists.
- A kindergarten lottery for the next school year shall be held on or before February 15 th.
- Applications for the kindergarten lottery will be accepted as outline in Section II (Applications).
- The class size and number of classes shall be determined prior to the kindergarten lottery.
- Sibling Placement
- If sufficient spaces are available, all siblings shall be offered acceptance.
- If there are not sufficient spaces to place siblings, then siblings shall be subject to a lottery that shall be held as outlined in Section VI (General Lottery Procedures)
- Non-Sibling Placement
- If there are sufficient spaces available, all children will be offered acceptance.
- The placement of non-siblings shall follow the procedures outlined in Section VI (General Lottery Procedures).
- Kindergarten Acceptance Process
- Parents/guardians will be notified of lottery acceptance by phone, personal contact or mail.
- Registration packets must be completed and received by the School, within ten business days of the lottery date. If the registration packets are not complete and received, the School will consider such failure as a declination of acceptance.
- Acceptance and enrollment are subject to satisfying all the relevant requirements contained in this policy, final notice of acceptance by the School and satisfaction of all the criteria contained therein.
General Lottery Procedures
- All lotteries will be conducted in public with a disinterested party drawing the numbers, with reasonable public notice given at least one week prior to the lottery.
- Each application received prior to the predetermined deadline will be assigned a unique number. The unique number will be matched with an identical numbered marker for the purposes of lottery selection.
- All numbered markers will be randomly picked.
- When a numbered marker is picked, the number shall be matched to an application and assigned to the kindergarten class or waiting list.
- If a valid application, as outlined in Section II (Applications), is mishandled by the Administration, then the following procedure will be implemented:
- If a Lottery was Not Required - The student will be offered a position.
- If a Lottery was Required - A number from all of the numbers (i.e. applications originally included in the lottery) will be randomly picked. The student will be placed directly after the randomly picked number. Accordingly, the student will be offered a position or placed on the waiting list as outlined in Section IV (Waiting List).