Lottery Will Determine Next 9th-Grade Class at GSMST

GCPS news release

Gwinnett to use lottery to draw GSMST’s next freshman class from more than 1,100 applicants

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST), will hold a lottery to determine which students will be in the charter school’s next freshman class.

A total of 1,108 current eighth-grade students registered for the lottery seeking admission for next fall. The school only will accept 350 students for next year’s freshman class.

The lottery will be held Monday, February 9, 2015, beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the school district’s Instructional Support Center (ISC), 437 Old Peachtree Rd., NW in Suwanee.

Students who completed the registration process were assigned a lottery number and have been notified by email of their number, as well as the lottery time, date, and location. As those selected for enrollment will be notified of the lottery results that day by email and mail, there is no requirement for parents and students to attend the lottery. However, the lottery is open to the public.

Although only 350 students will be selected as part of the school’s 9th grade class through the lottery process, all 1,108 numbers will be drawn with the remaining numbers being placed on a waiting list in the order they were pulled.

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology is a Georgia Department of Education STEM-certified school.

The charter school offers students an opportunity to study in three broad areas of focus: bioscience, engineering, and emerging technologies. The school, one of five Board-approved charter schools operating in Gwinnett County, opened in 2007 and is located in Lawrenceville.