As a public charter network, applicants must apply for our enrollment lottery. Families must create an account via SchoolMint Enroll and submit an application online.  YES Prep uses a computer system to run a random lottery each year in February.  After the lottery is run, students who are not selected are placed on a waiting list.  Applications and waitlists do not roll over from year to year. If you are placed on the waitlist and are not selected to attend at YES Prep, we invite you to please submit an application in the following application year!

The open enrollment season begins on Friday, October 14, 2022 and ends on Monday, February 13, 2023. Once the open enrollment deadline has passed, you may submit an application to be placed on our waitlist. Our YES Prep campuses continue to backfill all seats until meeting enrollment. 

This year, the lottery will run on February 16, 2023 and February 17, 2023. 

All K-12 families will be notified of the lottery results beginning Wednesday, February 22, 2023. Pre-K families will receive a communication on Friday, February 24, 2023 with next steps.

All families submitting a lottery application will receive a electronic communication (email or text message, depending on selected preference on application) stating whether or not their child was accepted by the lottery or if they are on the waitlist.

Unfortunately, multiple applications to the same YES Prep school do not increase your chances of receiving a seat at YES Prep. However, all interested families are encouraged to select up to 3 schools to apply to. If a family falls in a YES Prep zone, they will default an application to their zoned school. Duplicate applications are flagged and removed from the enrollment platform system. 

YES Prep is a free, open enrollment public school.  We do not charge tuition to attend.

If the student lives more than 2 miles away from their primary campus, within a YES zone, YES Prep will provide transportation for them to that particular campus. Applicants will be notified whether they are in the primary zone or not when they apply to the lottery. All other families accepted can also access any existing campus bus stop that is closest to them. For more information regarding transportation, please visit the YES Prep Transportation page. 

Applicants can apply to up to 3 YES Prep campuses. If an applicant lives within a YES Prep campus zone, an applicant must apply to that campus as part of the 3 YES Prep campuses.

Please note that families zoned to YES Prep partnership schools, Northbrook Middle School, Northbrook High School cannot select additional YES Prep campuses due to our contract with SPRING Branch ISD. 

NO all existing YES Prep students do not need to complete another application for enrollment. Returning students are automatically enrolled in the subsequent school year. However, existing families should look to complete Intent to Return beginning in early 2023 to ensure their seat. If you are looking to move to another YES Prep campus, you may request a transfer request. Additional information on transfers will be communicated leading up to the 2023 new year. 

Yes. Eligible siblings of current, existing students must apply to the lottery for admittance into YES Prep. All applying sibling students receive a sibling attending priority within the lottery. Eligible sibling attending applicants are siblings who share at least one biological parent or one legal guardian and do not have an active YES Prep expulsion on their school record. This does not include siblings of alumni, children of alumni, cousins, or extended friends and family.