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LOTTERY SELECTION PROCESS

Lottery Selection FAU Biomedical is a program at Lake Worth High School that
The Choice program lottery for the 2026–2027 school year will be serves as a direct continuation for students from the biomedical
conducted in March 2026. The process is designed to be fair and programs at Lake Worth Middle and Roosevelt Middle schools.
transparent. This is an automated process used to assign students Applicants from these two feeder schools who satisfactorily
when a program has more first-choice applicants than available complete the middle school program, meet all eligibility
seats. requirements, and list Lake Worth High School as their first choice
will be given priority assignment. All other applicants interested
The system uses a student's verified home address to determine in the program must meet the eligibility criteria detailed on page
their status as either in-boundary (zoned for the school) or out-of- 13.
boundary. Placement is then prioritized using an approved order
of preferences, which are applied to each student's first-choice K-8 Continuum preference provides students an opportunity to
program selection. Eligible applicants are assigned according continue from 5th to 6th grade at a K-8 school. To be eligible,
to the following preference order: Principal’s 20%, Employee, current students must submit a Choice application listing that
Military, IB/IB MYP Continuum, FAU Biomedical, K-8 Continuum, school as their first choice. Priority for 6th-grade seats is given
Priority SAC, Sibling, and Strand. Students without a preference to students who either live in the school's attendance zone or
are included in the lottery after all students with the following have attended the school for both 4th and 5th grade. If there
preferences have been considered. are enough seats for these priority applicants, they will all be
assigned. If there are more priority applicants than available
Principal’s 20% preference is optional and allows a principal to seats, a lottery will be conducted among this priority group to
select a limited number of applicants who meet a pre-established determine assignments. Please note that students must also
set of measurable criteria for their school's program. Students meet any program-specific entry requirements, if applicable, to
who receive this preference are then assigned seats through the be eligible.
random lottery. Please note that while all students selected for
this preference must meet the criteria, not all students who meet Priority SAC preference is available to students residing in
the criteria will be chosen to receive it. The number of students designated attendance zones for six specific sites: Morikami Park,
assigned with this preference will not exceed 20% of the available Northboro, Poinciana, and S.D. Spady elementary schools; Bak
out-of-boundary seats for that program and grade level. Middle School of the Arts; and Suncoast High School (IIT-related
programs, only). In the lottery, this preference is applied after
Employee preference grants a higher priority in the lottery to an all higher-priority applicants have been assigned. Up to 50% of
applicant whose parent or legal guardian is a full-time employee remaining elementary seats and 25% of remaining secondary seats
at the school to which the student is applying. To qualify, the may then be filled by students with this geographic preference.
program at that school must be listed as the student's first choice.
While this preference increases the chance of an assignment, final Sibling preference is provided to a student applying to a school
placement is still contingent upon seat availability. where their sibling is currently enrolled in a Choice or in-house
program and will be returning the following school year. To
Military preference grants a higher priority in the Choice lottery qualify, the school must be the applicant's first choice, and the
to applicants whose parent or legal guardian is a full-time, active currently enrolled sibling cannot be in an exiting grade (5th, 8th,
duty member of the United States Armed Forces. (This preference or 12th).
does not extend to members of the Reserve or National Guard It is important to note, however, that when siblings apply to the
on active duty for training purposes). To qualify, the student same Choice program together for the first time, they do not
must be registered as a dependent in the Defense Enrollment receive a lottery preference over other applicants. While you must
Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS). Parents must upload official still link them on each application to identify them as a family unit,
military orders showing current active duty status and proof of this does not guarantee they will be assigned together, with the
dependency, such as the student's military ID card, at the time exception of twins or multiples, if space is available.
of application. While this preference increases the likelihood of
assignment, final placement is still contingent upon the number Siblings are defined as brothers, sisters, half-siblings, or step-
of available seats in the program. siblings living in the same household, and they must be linked in
the Family Dashboard before the lottery. For those who qualify for
IB/IB MYP Continuum grants students applying to continue the the preference, it is applied after other higher-priority groups are
IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) from a designated partner assigned, with up to 50% of remaining elementary seats and 25%
middle school a priority assignment to the corresponding high of remaining secondary seats being filled by these applicants.
school program. To be eligible, students must be on track to
satisfactorily complete the 7th and 8th grade MYP levels and Strand preference is available to students who wish to continue
meet all high school IB eligibility requirements. This priority in a pathway program from a lower school level to the next.
placement is contingent upon seat availability. To be eligible, applicants for 6th grade must have completed
grades 4-5 in the program; applicants for 9th grade must have
The official IB MYP continuum pathways are: Carver MS to completed grades 7-8 in the pathway program. This preference
Atlantic HS, Conniston MS to Forest Hill HS, John F. Kennedy MS is applied in the lottery after all higher-priority groups have been
to Suncoast HS, and Pahokee MS to Pahokee HS.
assigned seats. Up to 25% of remaining seats in secondary school
programs may be filled by students with this preference.

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