What is the Lottery?

The lottery is how Uplift fairly fills its open seats. Because each school has limited space, a lottery is held whenever more applications are received than there are available spots in a given school and grade.

Here's how it works:

Admission is determined by a name-blind lottery. All applications received between the October open date and the lottery deadline in early February are entered, and each applicant is randomly assigned a lottery number. Offers go to the top lottery numbers matching the number of available seats in each school and grade. For example, if a school and grade has 15 open seats, the first 15 names on that lottery list receive an offer, and the rest move to the waitlist in lottery-number order.

One thing to know: siblings of currently enrolled students and siblings of newly enrolled students receive a preference in the lottery, moving to the top of the waitlist even if there's no immediate open seat.

Learn more about the full application and lottery process.