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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any word on the charter school lottery? I heard from PGCPS that results would be available this week but we haven't received any updates.

Nope, and Monday is a holiday, so I guess we're looking at April for getting the results. This is getting ridiculous.

Which Monday is a holiday? 3/31/25?

Anonymous wrote:Any word on the charter school lottery? I heard from PGCPS that results would be available this week but we haven't received any updates.

Nope, and Monday is a holiday, so I guess we're looking at April for getting the results. This is getting ridiculous.

Any word on the charter school lottery? I heard from PGCPS that results would be available this week but we haven't received any updates.

For those unfamiliar, there are at least 4 specialty/charter application/registration processes going on.
1) TAG continuity from elementary to middle school
2) High School specialty programs (Sci and Tech, VPA, IB etc)
3) Specialty Program lottery (preK-8)
4) Charter Lottery

They are separate and have different announcement and acceptance dates.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The lottery is always drawn in mid to late March. This is on schedule. Just be patient. A week will not change your childs results.

You must work for them. If you have been paying attention, you’d know they have changed the date multiple times over the past month. Should we guess our child’s status now that the deadline to accept is 3/26? The communication is terrible and they are unorganized.

I do not work for HR but I do work for PGCPS. I am not sure what that has to do with anything. I am also a PGCPS parent. If YOU were paying attention you would know that the deadline is for the High School speciality program. It is different from the other lottery.

Anonymous wrote:I just got a voicemail saying the deadline to ACCEPT was just changed from 3/21 to 3/26 but how can you accept something when you haven’t received the results??? Even going online to the application tells me nothing. They botched this.

The deadline change is for the 8th graders' specialty program, not the charter lottery. I have an 8th grader, and they have to choose which high school specialty program they want to attend by the 26th. We are still waiting to hear from the charter lottery too, so it is all very frustrating.

Anonymous wrote:The lottery is always drawn in mid to late March. This is on schedule. Just be patient. A week will not change your childs results.

You must work for them. If you have been paying attention, you’d know they have changed the date multiple times over the past month. Should we guess our child’s status now that the deadline to accept is 3/26? The communication is terrible and they are unorganized.

I just got a voicemail saying the deadline to ACCEPT was just changed from 3/21 to 3/26 but how can you accept something when you haven’t received the results??? Even going online to the application tells me nothing. They botched this.

The lottery is always drawn in mid to late March. This is on schedule. Just be patient. A week will not change your childs results.

Anonymous wrote:I called again yesterday and they are now saying next week and definitely by the end of March.

Yes, they told me they same thing this morning. Talk about building up the suspense.... sigh...

I called again yesterday and they are now saying next week and definitely by the end of March.

Anonymous wrote:I called on Friday and was told sometime this week. I'm waiting and watching. I suspect the uncertainty around to DOE may have been disruptive to normal operations.

Thanks!

I called on Friday and was told sometime this week. I'm waiting and watching. I suspect the uncertainty around to DOE may have been disruptive to normal operations.

Does anyone know when the PGCPS Charter School lottery results come out?