Enrollment Information

Lottery Information

For the 26/27 school year: 

Transitional Kindergarten: children must be born between September 2, 2021 and September 1, 2022 to be eligible for TK.  

We accept students in grades TK-8th grades.

Enter Lottery Here:

https://bit.ly/GVCSLottery

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.

Discovery Studies Program Information

• 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  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.

The timeline for Discovery Studies enrollment for the 2026/27 school year is as follows:

• • March 17 - Discovery Studies Information Session - 1:30 PM - adults only, please

  • March 27 - Deadline for current Discovery Studies students to re-enroll

  • April 1 - Deadline to register new student to be eligible for first lottery                              

Lottery Draws

• April 2 - First lottery draw - Subsequent draws will take place as openings occur. 

GVCS Enrollment and Lottery Draw Sequences

2026/27 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:

1. Currently enrolled Discovery Studies students and children of .50 FTE or greater GVCS staff

2. 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.

3. All new applicants who do not meet the above priorities.

The first lottery draw will take place on Thursday, April 2, 2026.  This draw will consist of all new applicants who fill out their registration online by the deadline, Wednesday, April 1, 2026.  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.