Lottery Dates

School Year 2021-22 lotteries are scheduled for Saturday, February 27th & Sunday, February 28th. Given COVID-19, we are planning to video stream our lotteries online so families can view the lotteries from the safety and comfort of their own homes. As a reminder, in order for your application to be entered in the lottery, it must be submitted before Friday, February 12th at 4pm PST. A detailed timeline for each school’s lottery is below, in chronological order. All lotteries will be streamed via KIPP SoCal’s Facebook page @kippsocal or facebook.com/kippsocal at the time designated below. You do not need to have a Facebook account to view the video. Results will also be posted in PDF form following the lottery. All families will also be notified by both email and mail if their application is accepted or waitlisted. For questions, contact enrollment@kippsocal.org or (323) 647-8898.

Lottery Schedule

View chart below for lottery date per school and lottery results of students who have been accepted and waitlisted for 2020-2021 school year.

DATE	RESULTS	School Name	Grades	Neighborhood
2/27/21	Results	KIPP Sol Academy	5-8	East LA
2/27/21	Results	KIPP LA Prep	5-8	East LA
2/27/21	Results	KIPP Academy of Innovation	5-8	East LA
2/27/21	Results	KIPP Iluminar Academy	TK-4	East LA
2/27/21	Results	KIPP Promesa Prep	TK-4	Boyle Heights
2/27/21	Results	KIPP Raices Academy	TK-4	East LA
2/27/21	Results	KIPP Comienza Community Prep	TK-8	Huntington Park
2/27/21	Results	KIPP Pueblo Unido	TK-8	Maywood
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Academy of Opportunity	5-8	South LA
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Philosophers Academy	5-8	South LA
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Scholar Academy	5-8	South LA
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Vida Prep	TK-4	South LA
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Empower Academy	TK-4	South LA
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Ignite Academy	TK-4	South LA
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Corazón Academy	TK-8	South Gate
2/28/21	Results	KIPP Compton Community School	TK-3	Compton

Lottery Admissions

KIPP SoCal Public Schools are open to all, and there are no requirements to apply. In order to ensure our process is fair, our application only requests the bare minimum information required to hold a public lottery: student age/grade, contact information, and schools interested in.

If the number of applications exceeds the number of available seats in any given grade, we will host a public, random lottery in order to determine which students are accepted. We do give priority to certain categories of students, as detailed below.

KIPP Comienza, KIPP Empower, KIPP Promesa, and KIPP Ignite schools ONLY:

Priority in the lottery is given to the following categories of students:

Siblings of students currently enrolled at the KIPP School for which the lottery is being held.
Children of KIPP SoCal Public Schools employees.
Students whose address of residence lies within the published boundaries of the District authorizing the school (i.e. LAUSD for Los Angeles schools, Compton USD for Compton schools, etc.)
Students currently enrolled in and attending a KIPP SoCal Public School in the immediate prior grade level to the Charter School’s instructional grade level that has vacancies.

For students not accepted during the lottery, student names will be added to a waitlist in order of the lottery number they received. Any applications received after the deadline of February 12, 2021 will be added to the end of this waitlist in order of submission date & time.

Waitlists are dynamic! If a student is called off any of our waitlists and accepts the space, and if that student has a sibling on the waitlist, sibling is moved to the top of the waitlist with other siblings in the order of their general lottery number. This puts siblings ahead of any non-sibling waitlist students.

All other KIPP SoCal Public Schools:

Priority in the lottery is given to the following categories of students, in order:

Siblings of students currently enrolled at the KIPP School for which the lottery is being held.
Children of KIPP SoCal Public Schools employees.
Students whose address of residence lies within the published boundaries of the District authorizing the school (i.e. LAUSD for Los Angeles schools, Compton USD for Compton schools, etc.)

Waitlists are never reordered. Therefore, the only way your number will change is if the students above you are accepted, in which case your number will be lowered. (Ex. If your student is #10 on the waitlist after the lottery, but then 3 students are accepted, your waitlist number should move to #7.)