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    When is the Magnet School Lottery?
    The SLPS 2025-2026 School Year Magnet Schools Lottery will be held before the end of the day Friday, November 22, 2024.
    There will be no 2nd lottery for the 2025-2026 school year. After the Lottery Application Deadline of Friday, November 8, 2024, all applications submitted will be processed on a first come-first served basis.

    What are my child's chances of being accepted to a magnet school?
    Applying within the lottery application period deadline will greatly increase the chances of a child receiving an acceptance offer.  Acceptance rates vary from year to year depending on the number of seats available for a school/grade level, and the number of applicants. Please note, do not apply for a school you are not willing to send your child to attend. Students accepted to any school choice requested will no longer be considered for placement to the other school requested on the submitted application, even if the school offered is the second choice. 

    How will I find out if my child is accepted?
    Placement Notifications will be emailed and posted on the parent dashboard by the end of the day on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. The Application and Placement program and websites used allow parents to access and view their student's application dashboard if they have applied online and set up an account. Families may also learn the results by calling the Student Recruitment Office at 314.633.5200, or by email to SLPSMAGNETSCHOOLS@SLPS.ORG.

    What do I do after my child is accepted?
    If your child is accepted you should claim the seat on your child's dashboard or via email. However, the offered school assignment will be considered accepted as the default 2025-26 school year assignment for your child unless you decline the seat on your child's dashboard, via email notification, or in writing to the SLPS Student Recruitment Office. The St. Louis Public Schools District and the school your child is accepted into should contact you in the late Spring of 2025 about any events for newly accepted students that will be held prior to the end of the 2024-2025 school year.

    What if I change my mind after my child is accepted?
    Please decline the seat on your child's dashboard, or via email notification, or in writing to the Student Recruitment Office. Include your child's name, date of birth, the school and grade where a seat was offered, and the reason for declining the seat. For currently enrolled St. Louis Public Schools students, if the seat offered is declined the child's school assignment will default to their previously attended or next assigned St. Louis Public School.

    What if my child is not chosen through the lottery?
    For Kg-8th General Education (non-Gifted Education) Program Schools, if your child was determined age and residency eligible to attend the school requested but no seats remained to offer acceptance, their name will be placed on a waiting list for that school if the applicant was not accepted into another choice requested. For Gifted Education Programs and ALL High Schools, your child may first be placed on the wait list prior to determination of Eligibility for the high school requested or SLPS Gifted Programs and/or prior to potential acceptance. Please do not apply for a school you are not willing to send your child to attend. You are not required to request more than one choice. If additional spaces at the school and grade requested for the school year applied for become available, you will be notified via valid parent email. Applications do not carry over from year to year so if your child is not accepted you would need to re-apply for the next school year if desired.

    How do I apply to a different school?
    Please do not apply for a school you are not willing to send your child to attend. If your child has not been accepted to a school requested and you wish to apply for a different school, or you want your child considered for placement to a different school after gaining a seat in a school previously requested, the previous application submitted and wait list/acceptance spot held by that application needs be withdrawn by Student Recruitment and/or Student Placement Office Staff to accommodate the new placement request. This specific type of "Choice Change" request detailing the child's name and birthdate and the changes to be made to the application submitted should be done via email or in writing. Any seat offered via application submitted will not be held while awaiting consideration for placement into a different school. The previous offered seat/wait list spot must be declined prior to processing any new application submitted, or choice change requested. A child will not remain on a wait list or be considered for placement into one school while offered another.

    What if my child is not accepted to his or her first choice?
    If you listed more than one choice on your application, and your child is accepted to his or her second choice (or lower for gifted), that school is the school he or she will be eligible to attend for the 2025-26 school year. His or her name will NOT automatically go on a waiting list for your first (or other for gifted) choice, and the other choice(s) requested will be removed from the school and grade wait list for placement consideration. Please do not apply for a school you are not willing to send your child to attend.

    If you are still interested in your child being considered for your first (or lower for gifted) choice school, you must refuse the seat to the school requested where the seat was offered via email or in writing, then request in the same email or written notice the choice desired for your child to be added to the desired school's waiting list. The placement on that school's waiting list will be determined via first come first served application processes. The date the request is received will be used to determine acceptance and or wait list placement, not the date of the initial application received earlier. Please do not apply for a school you are not willing to send your child to attend.

    Once my child is accepted, do I need to reapply each year?
    No. Once your child is accepted, enrolled and attending an SLPS Magnet School you do not have to reapply each year, presuming he or she will finish each school year at the same Magnet/Choice school and continues to meet eligibility criteria where applicable.

    Specific 2nd to 3rd, and 5th to 6th grade students advancing to the next school level will automatically be assigned to the continuity school for the program they are currently attending. Click this link for the Magnet/Choice schools feeder pattern.