HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ENROLLMENT LOTTERies

To provide a fair and transparent method for determining which applicants will be chosen to enroll in the Harmony school of their choice for the upcoming school year.

The campus will notify the parents directly, and provide next-steps for finalizing the application and locking in the student’s place for the following school year.

No, the lottery system’s purpose is to be fair to give every applicant an equal opportunity at being selected for admission.

Parents will be notified shortly after selection and provided next-steps for completing the admissions process. Parents may also view the status of their application by logging into the Smart Choice portal through which they submitted their application.

Current Harmony students wishing to stay at the same school the following year, or who will be progressing to a feeder campus (ex. promoted from elementary to middle school) do not need to apply for Open Enrollment and will not be entered into the lottery. The lottery is solely for prospective new Harmony students, or current Harmony students wishing to change campuses for other reasons (ex. To be closer to a parent’s workplace).

To ensure fairness and accuracy, the lottery is administered by an independent 3rd-party system that randomly selects students who have applied to attend their selected school during the enrollment period, November 1- February 10. The lottery is overseen by the campus principal and/or district superintendent, and the results are verified by a notary public.

If your child is not chosen for admission during the lottery process, they will be assigned a position on our “wait list.” As a new opening at the school becomes available, wait list families will be contacted for admission in the order in which they appear on the waitlist.