2025-26 Lottery Sign Up Begins November 1, 2024-8am
2025/26 Annual Lottery will be held Friday, March 7, 2025.
2025/2026 Lottery – Will be held the first Friday in March 2025
Lottery sign-up 2025/26 begins November 1st, 2024 at 8am through February 21st, 2025 at 4pm.
Lottery sign-up 2025/26 begins November 1st, 2024 at 8am through February 21st, 2025 at 4pm.
Please read the following carefully before signing up for the Santa Rosa Academy Annual Lottery.
- You will be invited to attend an Informational Meeting if your child is selected for enrollment.
- A student may only be entered into ONE Lottery per year. Please do not enter the same student twice. We will use the most recent lottery request for Track Choice.
Santa Rosa Academy is proud to offer three different tracks to meet the needs of our students.
Site based, home study and combination home study/on-site programs with accreditation approved by the Schools Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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Red Track
Our Red Track Program is a *K-12th grade Independent Study/Homeschool Track. Students are assigned an Educational Advisor who provides monthly assignments, meets with them weekly to go over completed work. Red Track does not participate in the lottery. Red Track registration begins in April.
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White Track
Our K-8th grade White Track Program is a combination of Independent Study/Homeschool and Site Based learning program. Students attend class twice a week as participants in a full day grade-level classroom.
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Blue Track
Our Blue Track Program is a full time site based learning program. Students on this track attend class 5 days a week on campus for grade-level classroom instruction. We offer Blue Track classes for grades K-12 on our campus.
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*Please note: Per SRA Board Resolution 10182023-1, the 2023-24 school year was the last TK (Red Track) class offered at Santa Rosa Academy. TK is no longer an offered program commencing with the 2024-25 school year and will not be included to receive TK applications in the 2024 Lottery.
Additional Lottery Information
Kindergarten
If your child turns 5 prior to Sept. 2, your child will be enrolling into Kindergarten.
Annual Lottery
Our annual lottery will be held the first Friday in March. Due to the large number of names on our lists, our Lottery is done electronically using a random list generating program. All students entered into the lottery are assigned a Lottery ID number (Deadline is February 21, 2025)
The random public lottery determines an applicant’s placement on our wait list. Those who request to enter the lottery after the open enrollment deadline are added to the bottom of the lottery wait list in the order they are received. Offers for openings are made in lottery placement/wait list order until the spots are filled or the wait list is exhausted.
Lottery ID Numbers
Lottery ID numbers are sent out electronically to parents. Please keep your student’s Lottery ID number on file as it will be used to post the Lottery results. Your Lottery ID number will be used for you student every year until they are enrolled and no longer requesting a track transfer. If you have not received a lottery number for your student by February 28th, please contact [email protected].
At any time when a parent forgets their student’s Lottery ID number they will be able to retrieve the waitlist code on the fillable lottery application which was used to sign up for the annual lottery.
Lottery Track Transfer Eligibility
Students must be enrolled at SRA at the time of the lottery to be eligible for a track transfer through the lottery.
Sibling Lottery Eligibility
A current SRA student must be remained enrolled in SRA at the time of the lottery for their sibling to qualify for the sibling priority in the lottery.
Offers for Placement
Initial offers for the upcoming school year will be made via email. When an offer is made, applicants need to notify the school within 48 hours to indicate whether or not they will accept; if offers are declined or applicants do not respond, the spot is then offered to the next applicant on the placement/wait list. Proof of up-to-date immunizations or a physician's registered waiver with the CAIR system (California Department of Public Health), must be provided at the time of registration, in order to complete a registration, otherwise the placement offer will be extended to the next person on the lottery wait list.
Are there lottery priorities?
Yes, in order from highest priority to lowest: Staff, Board, Heritage Track Transfers, Lottery Currently Enrolled*, Heritage Siblings**, Siblings, Menifee USD, General Public.
*Lottery Currently Enrolled have priority over Siblings and the General Public. This includes Lottery Track Transfers and Current Track Transfers.
**Important note about Heritage Students: A Heritage Student is identified as a student who continuously attended Santa Rosa Academy since PRIOR TO the opening of the new campus or the 2013-14 school year. These students would have attended school at the Main Campus at MSJC, Santa Rosa Academy West or the shopping center on Baxter Road in Wildomar. Heritage and Siblings need to be verified by Administration and Registrar. Board member students have priority after staff when they have served four years.
Menifee USD Student Priority:
This priority is for TK-8th grade students that reside in the Menifee Union School District boundaries. They must be residing in these boundaries at the time of the lottery.
This priority is for TK-8th grade students that reside in the Menifee Union School District boundaries. They must be residing in these boundaries at the time of the lottery.
Wait List Information
The SRA Wait Lists are built from the results of the annual lottery.
Any student who did not receive placement from the lottery is added to the appropriate category wait list in the order determined by the annual lottery results.
Students who missed the sign up for the 25/26 annual lottery can be added to the 25-26 waitlist by visiting the website after March 7, 2025, https://www.sra.mn/apps/pages/Annual-Lottery-Waitlist All students not in the lottery will be added to the waitlist in the order in which they are received.
Any student offered a position after the lottery will be invited to attend an informational/enrollment meeting if the family has not already done so.
Will I have to sign up for the lottery every year?
If your student does not get called in off the lottery in that year, then yes. Each year the lottery expires and is replace by a new lottery results list. Once a student is enrolled into the school they do not have to enter the lottery again unless they are wanting to transfer into another track that has a lottery.
How will I be notified of the Lottery Results?
You may attend the public lottery but it is not required. Results are posted online once the lottery has concluded and the results have been finalized. If you are offered placement after the lottery you will be notified via the email address entered on the lottery application. If your contact information has changed please email [email protected]
Immunization Requirements
Students must be immunized against certain communicable diseases. Students are prohibited from attending school unless immunization requirements are met for age and grade. The school district shall cooperate with local health officials in measures necessary for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in school-age children. The school may use any funds, property, or personnel and may permit any person licensed as a physician or registered nurse to administer an immunizing agent to any student whose parents have consented in writing.
Beginning January 1, 2016, parents of students in any school will no longer be allowed to submit a personal beliefs exemption to a currently required vaccine. A personal beliefs exemption on file at school prior to January 1, 2016, will continue to be valid until the student enters the next grade span at kindergarten (including transitional kindergarten) or 7th grade. Students are not required to have immunizations if they attend a home-based private school or an independent study program and do not receive classroom-based instruction. However, parents must
continue to provide immunization records for these students to their schools. The immunization requirements do not prohibit students from accessing special education and related services required by their individualized education programs.
A student not fully immunized may be temporarily excluded from a school or other institution when that child has been exposed to a specified disease and whose documentary proof of immunization status does not show proof of immunization against one of the communicable diseases described above.
Beginning January 1, 2016, parents of students in any school will no longer be allowed to submit a personal beliefs exemption to a currently required vaccine. A personal beliefs exemption on file at school prior to January 1, 2016, will continue to be valid until the student enters the next grade span at kindergarten (including transitional kindergarten) or 7th grade. Students are not required to have immunizations if they attend a home-based private school or an independent study program and do not receive classroom-based instruction. However, parents must
continue to provide immunization records for these students to their schools. The immunization requirements do not prohibit students from accessing special education and related services required by their individualized education programs.
A student not fully immunized may be temporarily excluded from a school or other institution when that child has been exposed to a specified disease and whose documentary proof of immunization status does not show proof of immunization against one of the communicable diseases described above.
*Please note: Per SRA Board Resolution 10182023-1, the 2023-24 school year is the last TK class offered at Santa Rosa Academy. TK is no longer an offered program commencing with the 2024-25 school year and will not be included to receive TK applications in the 2024 Lottery.
