Round 1 of OneMatch

• Opens: November 5, 2025
• Closes: January 29, 2026
• Results Released: February 20, 2026

Round 2 of OneMatch

• Opens: January 30, 2026
• Closes: April 10, 2026
• Results Released: May 1, 2026

Late Enrollment/Open Seat Portal

• Opens: TBA

OneMatch is the lottery system that allows families to apply to up to ten schools with one application and one timeline, and to receive one school match for their child. When there are more applications than there are available seats in a program, a lottery determines which students receive seats, based on their randomly assigned lottery number and any applicable priorities. The lottery runs from November - May each year.

● All students new to school in Indianapolis, including incoming pre-K students and Kindergarteners who wish to attend an Enroll Indy participating school.
● All students in terminating grades (the last grade level the student's current school offers) that are not a part of a Feeder Program.
● All students who wish to attend a different participating school in the upcoming school year then they are attending for the current school year.

● Current students who wish to remain at their current school (including PreK to Kindergarten).
● Students who wish to attend a non-IPS district school, private schools, or any other nonparticipating school.
● Students in terminating grades that want to continue to the next grade in their feeder program.

All applications must be submitted online. There are no paper applications. You can use your computer, a smart phone, or call the Enroll Indy enrollment specialists at 317-426-3234 for assistance filling out an application.

Yes. You must complete an application for any child that needs a school. You will add all children for whom you would like to apply to your family profile and then complete an application for each child.

If a family is applying for more than one student, they can opt-in to Family Match. The purpose of Family Match is to try to keep families together in one school. Below is a list of rules applicable to Family Match:

• If a user chooses to turn on Family Match, they are telling Enroll Indy that keeping their students together is more important than getting their top school choice.
• This means that if one of the students gets his/her top choice, but the other student is unable to get a seat at the same school, the OneMatch lottery will skip the top choice and try to get both students into the second choice to try to keep siblings at the same school.
• Families seeking Family Match must rank the same schools in the same order for all students they wish to keep together, or Family Match will not be recognized.
• If a user turns Family Match off, that user is indicating that their students can attend different schools and each application should be considered separately.
• Families with twins/multiples who want them to remain together, should use Family Match.

Yes. Anyone who wants to attend an Enroll Indy school should apply through OneMatch, although some schools have enrollment specifications. See our School Finder for specific information.

You have until the close of each round to re-order your rankings, or add or delete a school on your list.

If you apply to the incorrect grade, Enroll Indy has the right to revoke the student's seat.The Enroll Indy system may reject an application where a child does not meet an age cut-off such as Pre-k or Kindergarten. Once the lottery is run and a parent notifies the school or Enroll Indy that they mistakenly put the incorrect grade level on the application, there is no guarantee that there will be a seat available for your student in the correct grade at that school.

If you apply to another school at any time –during one of the lottery rounds, during late enrollment or throughout the year – and you receive a seat at another school, YES, you are giving up your seat at your current school. In a nutshell, when you apply to get into another school, you are applying out of your current school (with the Enroll Indy schools; does not apply to other districts or private schools).

For the best chance of getting your top choice school, you should apply any time during the first round of the lottery.

No, you should only list the schools on the application that you are willing to attend.

No, schools do not know how you rank them. Schools may request a list of students who have applied to their schools and will only receive your student’s information if you click the button to share with the school. The school will not know, however, what number you ranked them.

You do not need to provide proof of address when you apply, but proof of address will be requested during the registration process which is done at each school level.