Enrollment and Lottery Information

The application period for our lottery will open on May 1, 2025. There is no preference given to those who apply early, but you must submit the application by the deadline - 4:00 pm on May 20, 2025. Our lottery will be conducted via Zoom at 4:30 pm on May 22, 2025, for the 2025-26 school year. Parents will be notified of placement results after grade and residence eligibility are determined with the West Linn-Wilsonville School District office. Siblings of currently enrolled students (at the time of the lottery) can bypass the lottery process and are offered an automatic spot. As an example: if you enter two students into the lottery and only one is offered enrollment, your other student must wait until the following school year to enroll. 

 

We will host three information sessions before the lottery. Dates and location of the informational meetings are:

 

April 7, 2025, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm at Three Rivers Charter School 

April 14, 2025, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at Three Rivers Charter School 

April 21, 2025, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm at Three Rivers Charter School 

 

We are using the Informational Sessions to give tours of the building. The last several years have drawn many people into our building during instruction hours and it is very distracting to our learners! We are currently working on a video of a day-on-the-life of a TRCS student, which we hope will give you insight into a day at Three Rivers. 

 

Lottery & Enrollment Offers
Once you have submitted your application and attended the events, we invite you to join our live public lottery via Zoom at 4:30 pm on May 22.  The lottery is not held in person. A  Zoom link will be posted here. The lottery essentially builds our wait list, so once we know enrollment numbers of our current students, we will begin to build next year's class lists, beginning with the top of each grade's wait list. We do not know in advance how many spots will be available in each grade, though there are typically the most available for our incoming 4th grade. You will receive more information and results via email or telephone the week after the lottery. If your child is selected for enrollment based on random lottery selection and room in the grade level, you will be given a short period of time (typically 24 hours) to give TRCS a final decision. We ask that families have the important conversation about attending Three Rivers Charter School well in advance of the lottery, so that you are prepared to give an answer and we can move forward with the enrollment process for all students.

 

*Please note, the procedure for the lottery is first ensuring that every student (assigned a random number) in each grade level is in the "hopper". This means that you will hear your student's assigned number twice. The first time to ensure you know it's in the hopper, the second to know the order on the wait list. This also means that your student, entering 4th grade, has the same number as a student entering 7th grade. We pull each grade level separately. 

 

Waiting List 
If there is not room for your student, the student will remain on the waiting list. Parents will be notified of your student's position on the list and we will call you as soon as there is an opening for your child. While we are happy to answer any further questions you have at that time, parents need to be prepared to make a quick decision regarding enrolling at Three Rivers Charter School. Often this isn’t until well into summer or after the new school year has started, so be aware there may be no further opportunity to learn about our program or ask questions if you don’t participate in the resources we are offering during May.

Thank you for considering Three Rivers Charter School, we are looking forward to receiving your child’s application!