Lottery Information
For the 25/26 school year:
Discovery Studies applications are available in the front office, or you can access a printable PDF: Discovery Studies: TK-8th.
Transitional Kindergarten: children must be born between September 2, 2020 and September 1, 2021 to be eligible for TK.
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Grass Valley Charter School is open to any student living in Nevada, Placer, Yuba or Sierra counties. Students will be considered for admission without regard to ethnicity, national origin, gender, or disability.
Grass Valley Charter offers two educational programs. Our Core program is our full-day onsite program and Discovery Studies is our homeschool independent study-based program. Make sure you choose the appropriate program on your application.
Submit the complete application via online enrollment
Lottery draw for available spots is conducted (priority status is given to siblings of existing students and those enrolled in other GVCS programs – see below for priority status criteria)
If drawn, you will receive a text and an email offering a spot. If not your application will be kept to be drawn in future lottery draws for 1 one school year.
When offered a spot you will be given 24 hours to accept before the spot is offered to another family, and five days to provide all required registration paperwork
An intake conference will be scheduled with an Education Specialist.
March 20 - Discovery Studies Information Session - 1:00 PM - adults only, please
March 27 - Deadline for current Discovery Studies students to re-enroll
April 6 - Deadline to turn in new student registration packets to be eligible for first lottery
Lottery Draws
April 7 - First lottery draw - Subsequent draws will take place as openings occur.
GVCS Enrollment and Lottery Draw Sequences
2025/26 School Year
Grass Valley Charter School uses the following pre-determined priorities and sequences for acceptance of applicants to the different programs of our school. A separate lottery is held for each program (Core and Discovery Studies).
Students will be drawn in the lottery in the following priority order:
Currently enrolled Discovery Studies students and children of .50 FTE or greater GVCS staff
Sibling applicants of currently enrolled Core students and Discovery Studies students whose current entry date in GVCS is prior to Oct. 1st. Lottery draws within this priority group will be necessary if there are more applicants than spaces available in a grade level. Siblings from blended or split households: his/her primary residence must be more than 50% with the currently enrolled Discovery Studies student to qualify for sibling priority status.
All new applicants who do not meet the above priorities.
The first lottery draw will take place on Monday, April 7, 2025. This draw will consist of all new applicants who turn in a registration application by the deadline, Sunday, April 6, 2024. Registration applications turned in after the deadline will not qualify for the first lottery draw, but will be placed in the lottery for subsequent draws as openings become available.