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All applicants will start receiving communications from TPS starting in early to mid April.  The information will ask you to review important application information for accuracy and share lottery pull date details.  Unfortunately Yahoo has blocked many of our bulk emails from being received.  Check back on this page to see what you may have missed if you do not receive an email by mid April.

The lottery pull is scheduled for April 28, 2023 starting at 9:30 AM at Temecula Preparatory School.  You are NOT required to attend the lottery pull and there is NO preference given in how applicants are pulled, based on attendance.

Since TPS always has more applicants than we have spots for enrollment, the lottery pull is to establish the waiting list for each grade-level.  Every applicant who applies is part of the lottery pull.  The number the applicant is pulled, is the number they are placed on the waiting list for the grade-level applied for.  

All information used to pull the lottery, including your child’s grade level, is from the information you provided on the lottery application.  Unfortunately, if you submitted the incorrect grade level, we cannot move your child to the correct grade-level waiting list and give them the same number as they were pulled in the lottery.  We can move your child to the bottom of the waiting list in the correct grade, if you request us to do so.  If you find this is the case after the lottery pull is completed, please email info@temeculaprep.com and include your request.  Please make sure to include your child’s full name (or identification code) and the grade level that you would like us to move the child to.

No.  If you are not contacted in May, that does not mean that a spot will not become available to you in the upcoming weeks, throughout the summer, or during the school year for which you applied if a vacancy occurs.  We fill spots as they become available.  We always suggest that you keep an open mind about taking a spot during the school year, especially if you have a higher number (1 is the best number on the waiting list for each grade-level and the farther away from number 1 that you are, the less likely it is that we will get to your number).  

Since applicants are pulled by grade-level and NOT by family, it is very possible this could happen.  Please remember that if you choose to decline a spot because your other children have not been offered a spot and in the future another spot is offered to another child in your family, we cannot go back and reinstate the status of the spot you declined.

We currently have one TK class of 20, three kindergarten classes with 24 students in each class, and three classes of grade 1 through 6 (grade 1 has 25 students in each class and each grade-level goes up by 1 with 6th grade being at 30).  Remember that students who are currently enrolled at TPS automatically rollover to the next grade level.  Spots are offered based on vacancies due to the increase in class size from grade to grade or because a student leaves TPS.  TK does not have any students feeding into that class.  PLEASE NOTE:  Sometimes there is a need to retain students in K-6.  To use kindergarten as an example, just because we do not have anyone feeding into kindergarten, there could be students who would benefit by repeating this grade-level and therefore, we would not be able to offer all 72 spots. In grades 7 through 12, we have approximately 90 students in each grade-level.  We will offer all available spots in each grade-level based on what we have available.