Enrollment

Applicants create an account and submit an application online.  YES Prep uses a computer system to run a random lottery each year in February.  After the lottery is run, students who are not selected are placed on a waiting list.  Applications and waitlists do not roll over from year to year.

The open enrollment season begins on Friday, October 29 and ends on February 11. Once the deadline has passed, you may still submit an application to be placed on our waitlist.

This year, the lottery will run on Friday, February 18, 2022.

All K-12 families will be notified of the lottery results beginning Friday, February 25, 2022. Pre-K families will receive a communication on Friday, February 25, 2022 with the next steps. 

All families submitting a lottery application will receive a electronic communication (email or text message, depending on selected preference on application) stating whether or not their child was accepted by the lottery or if they are on the waitlist.

No. YES Prep allows applicants to submit one application up to three different YES Prep campuses. If a family falls in a YES Prep zone, the family will default an application to their zoned school. Duplicate entries are deleted prior to running the lottery. 

YES Prep is a free, open enrollment public school.  We do not charge tuition to attend.

If the student lives more than 2 miles away from their primary campus, within a YES zone, YES Prep will provide transportation for them to that particular campus. Applicants will be notified whether they are in the primary zone or not when they apply to the lottery. All other families accepted can also access any existing campus bus stop that is closest to them. For more information regarding transportation, please visit the YES Prep Transportation page. 

Applicants can apply to up to three YES Prep campuses. If an applicant lives within a YES Prep campus zone, an applicant must apply to that campus as part of the three YES Prep campuses. Please note that families zoned to YES Prep partnership schools, Northbrook Middle School, Northbrook High School, Hoffman Middle School, and Eisenhower High School, are not able to select additional YES Prep campuses due to our contract with the ISD partnership schools.

No.  Lottery applications are only for students new to the YES Prep district who desire to enter into the following school year. Students who are currently attending YES Prep should not apply for the lottery as returning students are automatically enrolled into the subsequent school year. However, if you are looking to move to another YES Prep campus, you may request a transfer directly to your campus registrar. 

Yes. Eligible siblings of current, existing students must apply to the lottery for admittance into YES Prep. All applying sibling students receive a sibling attending priority within the lottery. Eligible sibling attending applicants are siblings who share at least one biological parent or one legal guardian and do not have an active YES Prep expulsion on their school record. This does not include siblings of alumni, children of alumni, cousins, or extended friends and family.