Lottery Management Features
Student assignment. Ranking. Scoring. Placement. No matter what you call it, SchoolMint’s Lottery Management makes it easy to design, build, and run your student lotteries.
Customize and configure lotteries to match your placement policies. Run multiple lotteries by school or grade. Set priorities, weights, quotas, timelines, and seat availability. Update as needed and run practices to ensure you’re prepared for the big day!
Set your rules and priorities and run fair, equitable lotteries with SchoolMint’s secure algorithm. And in case you ever need it, a complete and transparent audit trail is autogenerated.
Automatically assign open seats and waitlist positions. Dynamically update waitlists. Generate a single best offer across multiple lotteries.
Manage applicant eligibility and notify them with a click of a button. Families can accept or decline an offer instantly from their computers or mobile devices.
A secure parent portal makes it easy to reach and engage with families. Parents can set notification preferences, view waitlist position(s), and manage offers for all of their kiddos, all from their mobile device.
“We selected Application and Lottery Management by SchoolMint because it offered the most flexibility and could adapt to the frequent, unique, and evolving requirements that our administrative staff, parents, and schools have regarding the application and lottery set-up.”
“Application and Lottery Management by SchoolMint has informed our system-level thinking and allowed us to better manage our high volume of application data and provide timely communications to our parents.”
CASE STUDY
Streamlined School Choice Boosts Parents Happiness
Spring Branch ISD, Texas
Accommodate: complex lotteries, shared application and school ranking, mobile and multilingual access
Reduce frequency of phone calls from parents with questions or frustrations
Reclaim staff time to focus efforts and energy on family support and guidance
