Online School Enrollment

The chart below is required to be posted annually on our website and may not accurately reflect the number of available seats after open enrollment has closed. Our waitlist changes frequently and we encourage interested parents and students to still apply.

Open enrollment for the next school year begins on December 1st and ends on the second Friday in January of the current school year. We enroll our current students first for any new school year, and then admit new students to the remaining seats during open enrollment. We conduct an enrollment lottery if a class is filled during the open enrollment period. If needed, the lottery is conducted on the first Thursday in February.

During the lottery, Lumen begins with the highest grade that has open seats and we work our way down to the younger grades. As older students are accepted, younger sibling applicants are also accepted if there are openings in their particular grades. The process continues until Lumen’s enrollment cap of 550 is reached or until seats in all grades with openings have been allotted.

Any student who is not offered a seat during the lottery will be placed on a waitlist.

Lumen continues to accept students after the open enrollment period closes and the lottery is conducted. These later applications are placed on a waitlist in the order they are received. Wait lists are not carried over from one year to the next and students interested in enrolling must apply annually.

While the lottery selects students at random, preference is given to the following individuals in any lottery consistent with applicable state laws.

Order of Preference

• Children of founding parents
• Children of faculty and staff
• Children of members of the Board of Trustees
• Siblings of currently enrolled students

Sibling preference is granted starting with the highest available grade and moving down. If preference is granted to a sibling, that student is placed in the next available slot on the appropriate grade list following the order of preference above.

Sibling preference is in place only while the first-placed student remains enrolled. If the first-placed student who qualified siblings for preferential enrollment is withdrawn before October 1, the siblings will lose preferential status and move back to their original place in the lottery.

The Special Education department attempts to identify all children with disabilities who enroll at Lumen Scholar Institute.

If a child is having significant difficulty with vision, hearing, speech, and/or behavior or is experiencing slow development atypical for his/her age, physical impairments, or learning difficulty then he/she may be a child with a disability. Disabilities that could interfere with education include autism, deaf-blindness, deafness, emotional disturbance, hearing impairment, intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, specific learning disabilities, communication disorders, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairment. Federal law mandates the provision of free educational programs, and/or services for such persons.

If you know of a student who might qualify for special education services, including a student suspected of having a disability even if he/she is advancing from grade to grade, please contact the Special Education Department.

If you are the parent of a child with an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) enrolled in a public school, the school is required by Utah Code Section 53A-1a-704 (10) to inform you of the availability of a scholarship to attend a private school through the Carson Smith Scholarship Program. Information on the CSS is available on the Special Education Carson Smith Scholarships USBE website.