YES Prep Public Schools

Now Accepting Applications!

Thank you for your interest in launching your child's academic journey with YES Prep Public Schools! The Student Lottery Application is now open. Click below to apply now.

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Our Application Process

October 11, 2024 

Mark your calendar to be one of the first families to apply to the YES Prep Student Lottery!

October 11, 2024 - February 17, 2025

Families who submit applications during the Lottery Season have the best chance to attend YES Prep. The deadline to apply is 11:59 p.m. on February 17, 2025.

February 19-20, 2025

Applicants are selected at random for admission to a YES Prep campus.

 

February 21, 2025

Families who are accepted to a YES Prep school will be notified following the close of Lottery season and invited to complete registration.

 

Lottery FAQs

Procedures Related to the Lottery

Parents and/or legal guardians can submit their child’s information for consideration to the YES Prep lottery by creating an account and completing the online application on their own, or by contacting a YES Prep campus for help submitting an application.

Lottery Procedure

When the lottery application submission period closes, applications are put into a randomized order and selected by random for admission to YES Prep. Within this process lies a set of prioritization levels that affect the randomized list:

  1. Children of eligible YES Prep employees (“Employee Priority”)
  2. Eligible sibling applicants who do not have an active YES Prep expulsion on their school record (“Sibling Priority”). Sibling applicants are defined as applicants that share at least one biological parent or one legal guardian with a current YES Prep student
  3. Applicants who reside in the priority zone for the YES Prep campus they are applying to ("Primary Zone Applicants")
  4. Applicants who reside outside the priority zone for the YES Prep campus they're applying to but within the YES Prep district zone ("Secondary Zone Applicants")
  5. Applicants who reside outside the YES Prep district zone

Procedures after the Lottery

After conducting the lottery, all applicants receive a status of Offered or Waitlisted. Applicants learn about their application status by logging into their SchoolMint Enroll Account. Applicants who receive an offer from YES Prep MUST accept or decline the offer online by Thursday, March 6, 2025.

  • Waitlist Procedure - If your child is not selected in the lottery process or you apply after the deadline, your child will be placed on a waitlist that follows the prioritization order stated above. If and when seats become available, the campus will contact families in the ordered sequence from the waitlist.  If your child is next on the waitlist, you will receive a notification to offer your child the available seat.
  • Transfer Procedure - If your child is accepted to a YES Prep campus and wants to transfer to a different YES school, please contact your current YES Prep campus registrar for more information.