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Lottery Information for 2024-2025

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  • 2024-2025 Application Dates
  • How to Apply for the Lottery or Waitlist
  • Enrollment Information for Current Families
  • Lottery/Enrollment Information for 2023-2024
  • Enrollment FAQs and Links
  • Contact

 

2024-2025 Application Dates

Our lottery application for the 2024-2025 school year will be open from January 2, 2024 through February 16, 2024. The lottery for the 2024-2025 school year will be run on February 23, 2024.

Our lottery for the 2023-2024 school year was run on February 24, 2023.

Waitlist Applications for the 2023-2024 school year will remain open through the end of the calendar year.

 

 

How to Apply for the Lottery or Waitlist

How to apply for our Lottery:

APPLICATION LINK WILL NOT OPEN UNTIL JANUARY 2, 2024.

  1. Create a family account via Scribbles. Be sure to associate all children you wish to add to our waitlists.ERA Lottery/Enrollment Family Dashboard
  2. APPLYING FOR THE LOTTERY: Complete an “Lottery Application 2024-2025” for each child. ONLY THIS APPLICATION FORM WILL BE ACCEPTED. From your dashboard, the application can be found by going through the green “Begin Lottery/Enrollment Application” button. Note:  The title of your submitted lottery application will say “Waitlist” application on the Family Dashboard.
  3. The Scribd software will notify you when your application has been submitted and when it has been approved. On lottery day, the software will notify you if you received a spot or where you are on the waitlist for that grade level.
  4. Our Admissions Director will also email you personally if you receive a spot in the lottery with more detailed instructions and deadlines for enrollment. Please add this email address to your contacts so the email(s) do not go to your Spam folder: mhover@enoriveracademy.org.

How to apply for our Waitlist (2023-2024 school year):

  1. Create a family account via Scribbles. Be sure to associate all children you wish to add to our waitlists.ERA Lottery/Enrollment Family Dashboard
  2. APPLYING FOR THE WAITLIST: Complete an “Waitlist Application 2023-2024” for each child. ONLY THIS APPLICATION FORM WILL BE ACCEPTED. From your dashboard, the application can be found by going through the green “Begin Lottery/Enrollment Application” button. 
  3. The Scribd software will notify you when your application has been submitted and when it has been approved. You may login at any time to see your waitlist spot. It is located at the far right of the application listing (you will need to scroll all the way to the right if using a mobile device).
  4. Our Admissions Director will also email you personally if you receive a spot from the waitlist with more detailed instructions and deadlines for enrollment. Please add this email address to your contacts so the email(s) do not go to your Spam folder: mhover@enoriveracademy.org.

 

*Please remember that if you are applying for a spot in 10-12th grades, students need to have met certain criteria with the amount of passed credits they have earned in order to be eligible for that grade level.

10th grade = must have earned at least 6 credits (by the end of the school year)

11th grade = must have earned at least 12 credits (by the end of the school year)

12th grade = must have earned at least 20 credits (by the end of the school year)

 

 

Enrollment Information for Current Families

For Current Students: Families must complete the “Existing Students Intent to Enroll 2024-2025” form for each currently enrolled student. The deadline to complete this form is January 26, 2024. Reference the Intent to Return Parent Letter linked below for full directions.

For Siblings of Current Students: Families must complete the “Lottery Application 2024-2025” form for each sibling of a currently enrolled student that they would like to try to get a spot at ERA. Please try to associate any non-currently enrolled siblings to your account before you complete your Intent to Enroll form for your currently enrolled students so the software will link them smoothly. The deadline to complete the lottery application is February 16, 2024. Reference the Intent to Return Parent Letter linked below for full directions.

Intent to Return Scribbles Parent Letter

 

Lottery/Enrollment Information for 2023-2024

Our 2023-2024 Waitlist Application period remains open. We are not accepting any new students for the 2023-2024 school year at this time (11/13/23). 

We pull from our waitlists for any available spots through the end of December each year. Our waitlists begin fresh in January with the opening of our next school year lottery process. 

Our lottery for the 2023-24 school year was run on February 24, 2023.

 

Enrollment FAQs and Links

I have questions about the lottery, waitlist, or general enrollment! Read through the FAQs listed below. If you question is not answered here, please contact our Admissions Director at: mhover@enoriveracademy.org.

I applied last year for the lottery. Do I need to apply again? Yes! If you applied in the past but did not gain a spot at ERA, you will need to apply again. We restart our waitlists each year with the applicants from that year’s lottery.

Do you offer any sort of preferences in the lottery? We offer sibling preference of currently enrolled students. Staff and Board member children are included in this. The only requirement for applying for our lottery is that you are a resident of North Carolina at the time of application.

If one of my children gets a spot in the lottery, will all of my children get in? No, not necessarily. Each grade level’s lottery is run independently. If one of your children gains an open seat in the lottery but your other children do not, any siblings on waitlists will be moved toward the top of their grade level’s waitlist once you accept the spot for the child who gained a seat in the lottery. Once an applicant accepts an offered spot, their siblings qualify for sibling preference.

How to twins work in the lottery? Twins (or any multiples) should each submit an application for the lottery. However, if a twin receives a spot in a lottery drawing or from the waitlist, the other twin will also be admitted at the same time.

What if I don’t gain a spot from the lottery drawing. How do I know where I am on the waitlist? Login to your Scribbles Dashboard using the blue link below. You will see a Waitlist number on the right side of your application listing. This number will tell you how far down your child is on the waitlist. You may need to scroll all the way to the right of the page to see the number if you are using a phone or other mobile device.

My waitlist number changed. What happened? If your waitlist number decreased, you are closer to gaining a spot at ERA. If your waitlist number increased, siblings of currently enrolled or currently enrolling students were moved ahead of your application due to our sibling preference.

Do I need to upload documents to my lottery application? You do not! We will not accept any accompanying documents until an applicant has been offered a spot, accepted, and completed their initial enrollment form.

I’m having trouble with the Scribbles software. What do I do? Please contact our Admissions Director, Morgana Hover, at mhover@enoriveracademy.org.

What chance do I have to get in through the lottery? It all depends on what grade level you are applying for. Typically we have more applicants each year in grades K-12 than our entire enrollment will allow. The grade levels with the most applications are typically Kindergarten, 6th grade, and 9th grade but these are also the easiest years to gain an open spot as we expand the number of students we enroll at those grade levels. On average, we will have around 15 open Kindergarten spots, 10 open 6th grade spots, 0-2 open spots at all other K-8 grade levels, 40 open 9th grade spots, and 10 open spots in grades 10-12.

How many open spots do you have? Currently we are gathering information from our current families to determine how many open spots we will have in each grade level for the 2022-2023 school year. That quantity is currently unknown. On average, we will have around 15 open Kindergarten spots, 10 open 6th grade spots, 0-2 open spots at all other K-8 grade levels, 40 open 9th grade spots, and 10 open spots in grades 10-12.

I got in! Now what? Our Admissions Director, Morgana Hover (mhover@enoriveracademy.org), will email all applicants who received a spot separately from the ScribChoice software. Her email will contain next steps and she will walk families through the enrollment process (also outlined below).

What is the overall Enrollment Process? As seen in the “Enrollment Flowchart” link below, if an applicant is selected in the lottery or from the waitlist, the following process is used: 1. The applicant must choose Accept within the software to officially accept the spot. 2. The applicant must complete the online “Enrollment Application” and upload any requested accompanying documents. The documents required are listed on the applicant’s dashboard once the “Enrollment Application” is complete. 3. The application and uploads are approved and the student is set to be enrolled. 4. Various staff members will finalize the enrollment and overall student records.

Links:

ERA Lottery/Enrollment Family Dashboard

Enrollment Flowchart

 

Contact

Please contact our Admissions Director, Morgana Hover, at mhover@enoriveracademy.org if you have specific questions.