Good morning. Welcome to the class of 2030 incoming grade nine admissions lottery. My name is Jill Davis and I'm the superintendent director of Greater LOL Technical High School. Thank you for joining us virtually this morning. I
would like to begin by sharing that today's lottery reflects a recent change in how students are admitted to career technical education schools across the Commonwealth. On May 20th, 2025, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and
Secondary Education approved updated regulations requiring that any CTE school with more applicants than available seats must use a blind or weighted lottery system for admissions.
This applies to students entering grade nine beginning the fall of 2026. In accordance with these regulations and in compliance with 603 CMR 4.00, 00. The Greater LOL Technical High School
Committee approved our current admissions policy in October of 2025, which includes when the number of applications exceeds the number of available seats, a weighted lottery, and
a demonstration of awareness of career technical education is used to determine admission. Resident students [clears throat] from Drakit, Dunstable, LOL, and Tingsboro are selected before any non-resident students.
To be eligible for today's lottery, applicants were required to demonstrate awareness of career technical education. Students met this requirement by attending an open house, participating in an in-person or virtual tour, or
completing the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's onlineformational module. In addition, applicants may have earned additional waiting to increase their chances of selection.
Additional weights were awarded based on attendance, discipline, and interest in CTE. These weights did not exclude any applicant who demonstrated awareness. They simply provided additional
opportunities for selection. In compliance with our admissions policy, all applicants were officially notified at least 14 days prior to today's lottery of their lottery ID number, residency status, application
status of being complete or incomplete, and the number of weights earned. These notifications were sent to the email addresses provided in the application. Applicants or parents or guardians were
also provided an opportunity to appeal any application determinations within seven business days of the email notification. This year, Grid Old Technical High School received over 1,200 applications
for the expected 595 available grade nine seats, highlighting the very very strong interest in our school and the growing demand for career technical education. We truly appreciate
every student and family who applied. [cough] Today's lottery includes only ontime grade nine applicants who are residents of our district communities that demonstrated awareness of CTE.
Nonresident applicants and late applications submitted after the February 2nd deadline are not part of this initial lottery today. If an additional seat becomes available, those applicants may be considered in future
lotteryies. We will also conduct a separate lottery for grade 10 transfer applicants later this summer with details to be provided at least 7 days prior to the lottery selection.
We are committed to ensuring that this process is conducted fairly, transparently, and in full compliance with state regulations. At this time, our event participants will introduce themselves and share
their roles. >> Uh, good morning. My name is Lisa Martinez and I'm the director of technology, enrollment, and information at Greater Loltech and I'm the lottery coordinator. uh for today's uh public drawing.
>> Good morning. I am Michael Barton, assistant superintendent principal of Greater Old Teethical High School and I am serving as a certification team member. >> Good morning. My name is Jill Davis. I'm the superintendent director of Greater LOL Technical High School and I will also be serving as a certification team
member. >> Good morning. My name is attorney Jennifer Mcgru. I am the attorney for the district and I will be serving as a a certification team member. Good morning. My name is Paul Morren, school committee chairman and serving as
certification team member today. >> Thank you, Jill. I I will now uh talk about the lottery process. To ensure equity in the school year 2026 27 admission cycle, Greater Lowel Tech will
implement a resident community seat allocation process. Seats are distributed to each district community based on our district agreement, which uses grades 1 through 12 enrollment data from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's
school attending report. Based on our incoming class size of the expected 595 students, we will conduct four separate randomized public lotteryies, one for each resident member community. The seat allocations are as follows. Drakuit 116
seats, Dunstable 15 seats. Lel 421 seats, Tingsboro 43 seats. If any community does not fill its allocated seats, those seats will be redistributed to the other district communities.
So today, a total number of 1,157 students have qualified for the lottery. To ensure fairness and compliance, each district community lottery will be conducted using final site enrollment management, a third-party electronic system that performs a randomized
weighted lottery as required by state regulations. This is a public process to protect student confidentiality. No names will be displayed. Instead, each applicant has been assigned a uke a unique lottery ID number which was
shared in an official notification email sent to all applicants on March 11th, 2026. Here's how the process will work. Okay, we will run four separate lotteryies, one each for Draket, Dunstable, Lel, and
Tingsboro. For each district community, the system will randomly select students taking into account any weights they have earned. As each lottery is presented, lottery ID numbers will appear quickly on the screen.
Please note that the system process results very very quickly, making it uh difficult to follow individual numbers in real time. Following the drawings, a certification process will play take place to ensure full compliance with
state regulations and district equity standards. For these reasons, no official acceptance or weightless results will be announced during this live event. Okay. We will now begin the lottery drawings.
And uh the screen will now be shared to display the process and the drawing. We will begin with Draet followed by Dunstable then Lel and then finally Tingsboro. Each lottery is a two-step process.
First the system prepares the drawing using the run lottery function which takes approximately 30 seconds to run. Then results are then displayed using the presentation feature.
Okay. And uh uh once um the lottery um starts uh we'll be looking at um looking at uh Drake first and we are now about to begin the run
lottery for Drake. Okay. Okay. Uh it's currently running the lottery randomly drawing the students by ID number. >> Once that's completed, [cough] [clears throat]
we will look at the presentation feature of this drawing. Okay, the the run lottery uh portion is complete. Now the presentation will be dis selected to dis display the results.
You can now see ID numbers being displayed very very quickly from the random drawing. As you can see, the numbers are are quickly going across the screen. >> [cough] [clears throat] >> Okay. Now the presentation um uh portion
of um of the Drager lottery is complete. Now we will do the same for dunible. Okay. Once >> Yes. So we are now running the uh the lottery selection random drawing for
dunstable and that is complete. Now the presentation will be selected to display those results. Okay the presentation portion is now complete. Next we will do the low uh lottery and
that presentation will take a a bit more time because of the number of students in the lottery. So run lottery is now processing and randomly drawing students by the by their ID number.
Will take approximately about 30 seconds. Maybe a little bit longer than 30 seconds. [sighs and gasps] Okay. Um now that the um that the selection process is complete now looking at the presentation
um where um the IDs will be very quickly displayed and that will take a little bit >> about two minutes. >> [sighs] >> Okay, we're about halfway through the UL
uh presentation. The LOL process is almost complete. Okay. Um, next we'll move on to Tinksboro and we will uh run the um the actual random drawing hitting the run lottery
key and that should Okay, and that's complete. Now we will present those um Yep. those IDs for Kingsboro. Okay, the presentation for Kingsboro is complete. Now that all four lottery
drawings have been completed, I will review the notification process and next steps. Within two business days, all applicants will receive an email to the [clears throat] email addresses that were provided on the application indicating whether they have been
offered admission or placed on the wait list. A letter will also be mailed uh uh via United States Postal Service to the home address that was provided on the application. In addition, results will be posted publicly on our website within two
business days. List will be organized by community and will show lottery ID numbers in the order drawn indicating admission or weightless status. Weight list will be updated by the first business day of each month allowing for
students and families to keep updated on their own weightless status. As seats become available, the admissions office will contact families directly. We understand that being placed on a wait list can be disappointing and we appreciate your patience. As the process
continues, enrollment information. Accepted students will receive an acceptance email in the addresses that were provided in their application that will include a link to the final site online application portal. You will have 10
calendar days to complete registration and secure your student seat. This is very important. If an applicant does not respond within 10day time frame, the offer will be rescended and the seat will be offered to the next applicant on
the wait list. To enroll, students must be promoted to grade nine by their sending district. Please note that acceptance is conditional upon the accuracy and completeness of the application. The district reserves the right to revoke
acceptance if any information is found to be inaccurate or incomplete. Our admissions team will be available to assist throughout the registration and enrollment process. Now, I'll turn it back over to Superintendent Davis for her final remarks.
>> Thank you, Lisa. Thank you again, everyone, for joining us. Uh, and thank you to the class of 2030 for joining us to the for the class of 2030 lottery admissions process and for your continued interest in Greater LOL
Technical High School. We appreciate uh you [laughter] being with us today and we wish all of our applicants and their families the very best. Thank you again.