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October

Timely updates for peak performance:

IMPORTANT - Before you run your first lottery, we suggest reviewing the following categories (items 2-4 will hold up available spots):

  1. Application Holds
  2. Offered-Pending
  3. Offered-Accepted
  4. Review Before Next Lottery Run

MyLottery Dashboard User Guides

Offered-Pending / Offered-Accepted from SY25 will hold up spots in your lottery for SY26. For example, if you have 12 students in SY25 who have pending offers, then you run a lottery for SY26, if the 12 students for SY25 end up enrolling the next day, there's potentially 12 fewer spots available. If you're under-enrolled and have spots regardless, then you'd be fine either way.  They'll eventually catch up with each other over the course of a couple of weeks.

Update school capacity numbers by clicking the Lottery tab. Select the new School Year. Add numbers under School Capacity. 

This should be the FULL SCHOOL CAPACITY BY GRADE LEVEL not the number of openings.  Schools don’t need to “count” every time a lottery is run, the system counts this under Remaining Seats Available.

Enable the setting to Auto-decline applications.