After Choice School rosters are finalized, each school will establish a waitlist based on the lottery numbers previously assigned. When openings become available, the school will offer placement to the next student on the waitlist. The family will have 24 hours to accept or reject placement. If the family declines placement at the Choice School, the student will be removed from the school’s waitlist.
Each Choice School will maintain a continuous waitlist. Students will be moved to the next grade level each year and will maintain their lottery placement throughout the duration of the school’s grade offerings unless placement was previously declined.
Wait lists are continually maintained by each Choice School and carry forward each year. Student’s retain their waitlist number. For example, if a student applies to Tesla STEM for 9th grade and they are wait list number 250, they carry that wait list number to 10th grade and beyond. Given that Tesla STEM typically accepts 150 students each year, random lottery #151 is waitlist number 1. Choice Schools offer spaces from their wait list as they come available, so no two programs would have the same number of students on a wait list, and the wait list can and does change over the course of a year.
Choice Schools regularly communicate lists of accepted students with one another via email and phone communication. This communication typically occurs daily during the annual choice lottery notification window and weekly or as students are offered placement during the rest of the school year. For each offer from the waitlist extended, schools also verify, prior to enrollment, that the student has not accepted placement at another Choice School.
