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Wake County Public School District: Choice and Transfer Enrollment That Runs with Less Staff

Written by The SchoolMint Team | Feb 19, 2026 2:00:00 PM

Wake County Public School District uses SchoolMint to support complex student assignment workflows, including transfers and lottery-based choice. The district centralizes multiple application processes, improves role-based data access, and shifts notifications to email and SMS to reduce manual effort.

The Opportunity

Wake County needed to manage multiple student assignment and choice pathways at scale, including transfers and lotteries, while improving turnaround time, maintaining equitable selection priorities, and continuing to operate effectively with reduced staffing levels.

The district runs five distinct application processes, including early college, magnets and year-round, standard transfers, stability transfers, and overflow/capping scenarios. Transfers alone represent a high-volume workflow, with applications manually processed and coded by a small team.

Wake County also needed to handle complex lottery priorities and data constraints across multiple student databases, while shifting away from paper-based processes and reducing mailing costs through digital notifications.

The Solution

SchoolMint Enroll supports Wake County’s student assignment workflows across applications and lotteries.

  • Centralized processes support transfers, magnets, year-round, and early college workflows.
  • Lottery execution moves into SchoolMint for the first time.
  • Role-based access helps manage sensitive student data across systems.
  • Email and SMS notifications reduce mailing effort and improve communication.

The Results

  • 13,000 transfer applications processed annually, supporting high-volume choice demand.
  • 12 staff now manage workloads previously handled by 20.
  • 41 sub-lotteries supported within magnet lottery design and priorities.

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