Charter Academy: Lottery-Ready Enrollment That Scales With One Administrator

This North Carolina charter uses SchoolMint to manage high-demand applications and a complex lottery with limited staffing.

Administered by one CMO operator, the program supports annual application surges, priority rules, and equitable seat allocation while keeping enrollment operations efficient.

The Opportunity

This North Carolina charter needed an application and lottery system that could handle rapid demand growth and complex priority rules while being managed by one administrator through its CMO, without adding operational burden or process risk.

As a charter with roughly 900 students, the school processes hundreds of applications annually and saw about 400 applications already in January.

The lottery must accommodate defined priorities, including free-and-reduced lunch allocation, sibling and employee-child preferences, and other rule-based placement needs.

With the supporting CMO managing 24 schools statewide, the team needed an approach that scales, stays consistent, and is easy to administer.

The Solution

SchoolMint Enroll supports this charter with application and lottery workflows.

• Application intake supports annual demand spikes with consistent processes.
• Lottery rules reflect FRL quotas, siblings, and employee-child priorities.
• CMO administration enables one operator to run enrollment centrally.
• Program supports multi-site charter operations across a shared service model.

The Results

• 900 students enrolled with applications and lottery managed centrally.
• 300–400 applications processed annually.
• 1 administrator supports enrollment across CMO-managed charter operations.

Improve your school’s enrollment process with the leading K-12 enrollment software.

SchoolMint Enroll is the premier student enrollment management system for charter schools that are serious about creating efficient processes for themselves and easy experiences for families.

Our comprehensive enrollment management software provides functionality for:

• Student Recruitment
• Application Management
• Lottery and Placement
• Registration and SIS Sync
• ECE, CTE, Virtual School, Transfers, Magnet Programs, etc.

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