Lottery Details

Because of the complexity of the Intergovernmental Agreement among the districts, and in order to have a fair lottery process, RMSEL has developed the following enrollment policy.

Initial enrollment at RMSEL shall be determined by a lottery process as defined below. Some applicants are given priority in the lottery. This policy describes the order of preference for the enrollment lottery.

The following categories are in order of priority:

I.  Staff - children of staff members will be enrolled with first preference in accordance with grade and district availability.

A.) If a staff member terminates their employment at RMSEL, their student(s) will be allowed to remain enrolled in accordance with the out-of-district policy (see VI below).

II. Sibling - applicants who have a sibling who is attending RMSEL and has been continuously enrolled from October 1st of the previous year will be enrolled with next preference in accordance with grade and district availability.

III. BOCES - children of RMSEL's BOCES Directors will be enrolled having next preference in accordance with grade and district availability.

IV.  Alumni - children of a RMSEL graduate will be enrolled having next preference in accordance with grade and district availability.

V. General - all other applicants will be enrolled having next preference in accordance with grade and district availability.

A.) When a new family has more than one child in the lottery and one of the children has been accepted, the remaining sibling(s) will be given next preference in accordance with grade and district availability.

VI. Out-of-District - these applicants will be enrolled only if there are no other applications on file for that grade level from any of the member districts.

A.) Out-of-district students will be allowed to continue to be enrolled.