Enrollment Information
Please note: For the 2025-2026 school year, all potential kindergarten students must be 5 prior to September 1, 2025.
Enrollment Procedures
We are no longer accepting direct applications for the 2024-2025 school year. Any open seats may be filled only from the 2024-2025 waitlist in the order students are listed.
Per updated state regulations: To be considered for sibling priority, all students in a family who wish to be entered in the lottery must be on a single application.
The 2025-2026 Lottery Application close date is 5:00pm on Thursday, March 6th. All applications received prior to the 5:00pm deadline will be included in the lottery based on the priority category for which they qualify.
This application will close briefly at the deadlin date to allow for applications to be processed, and then will reopen on Tuesday, March 11th. Appications received on, or after, March 11th will be added to the waitlist for the grade in the order they are received.
Our Priority Lottery will be held at 5:30pm on Monday, March 10th. We will begin notifying families who have received seat on Wednesday March 12th.
Annual Lottery
Hayden Canyon Charter is a public charter school open to any student regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, social or economic status and/or special needs. Each year Hayden Canyon Charter has a limited number of openings for new students. For the 2025-2026 school year our total enrollment will be 668 students. When receiving more applications than spaces available, we will hold an annual priority lottery in the spring each year as outlined below. Applications for the priority lottery will be accepted from the time the notice of application opening is made until March 6, 2025 at 5:00pm (PDT). Notice of acceptance for the 2025-2026 school year will be sent out via email to those students who receive placement. All other students will be placed on the waitlist in their lotteried order.
The HCC board reserves the option to extend the enrollment period, or have a second chance priority lottery, if target enrollment is not met during the initial lottery process.
Admissions and Lottery Procedures
HCC Priority List for Lottery
- Students already enrolled at HCC;
- Children of founders and full-time employees, provided that this admission preference shall be limited to not more than ten percent (10%) of the school’s capacity;
- Siblings of pupils already enrolled in HCC;
- Prospective students residing in the primary attendance area of the school;
- Prospective students residing in Idaho, but outside the primary attendance area of the school;
Note: Per Idaho state regulations, students who live outside Idaho may not be included in the priority lottery. If you are moving to Idaho, residency in the state must be established before an application can be completed. Students who move out of Idaho after acceptance in the lottery will be subject to out of state tuition fees. For the 2024-2025 school year, tuition for non-Idaho residents in K-5 was $803.09 per month and tuition for non-Idaho residents in grades 6-8 was $662.41 per month. We will update out of state tuition information for the 2025-2026 as soon as it is received from the state. Tuition is due at the beginning of each month to retain the student’s seat.
Students currently enrolled in Hayden Canyon Charter will be automatically retain a seat at the school and be placed for the upcoming year unless we are notified in writing that they will not be returning. Please do not submit a lottery application for returning students.
The primary attendance area may change in subsequent years to accommodate students within 1.5 miles of HCC should student demand exceed enrollment capacity of the school. Admission preference groups are subject to change if required by revisions to Idaho Code 33-5205 and/or IDAPA 08.02.04.203.07.
Wait List
When more students apply for seats than are available at the school, waiting lists for each grade will be developed. Students will be placed on the list according to the order they were drawn respective to their priority group. When a seat becomes available, the first student on the waiting list will be given the first opportunity to fill that seat. If a student or the student’s parent or guardian does not accept an offer of enrollment by the date designated, the student’s name will be removed from the list and the next eligible student will be offered the seat. Wait lists will not carry over from one year to the next.
When a class is full, any student application received after the priority lottery deadline will be placed at the end of the wait list for their grade.
Notification of enrollment Opportunities
In accordance with IDAPA 08.02.04.203.02, HCC will ensure that the public notification process of enrollment opportunities will include the dissemination of enrollment information, taking into consideration the language demographics of the attendance area, at least three months in advance of the enrollment deadline established by HCC each year. The information will be posted in highly visible and prominent locations within the attendance area of the school, as well as, on the school’s website. In addition, HCC will ensure that this process shall include the dissemination of at least one press release or public service announcement to media outlets such as television, radio, and newspapers that broadcast within the area of attendance of the school as well as through online social media and website venues, or through printed publications disseminated within the area of attendance of the school. HCC will ensure that such announcements are broadcast or published by such outlets on at least three occasions, beginning no later than fourteen days prior to the enrollment deadline each year.
All prospective students who have been entered into the lottery for the current school year, or completed a waitlist application after the lottery close, will be given the opportunity to enroll in the grade applied for at Hayden Canyon Charter if a seat becomes available before the next lottery, regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, social or economic status, or special needs.
Hayden Canyon Charter does adhere to Idaho Code 33-201 regarding age requirements for students enrolling at HCC.