Priority enrollment and siblings, handled in the open
Priorities are where school lotteries get challenged the hardest: who claimed them, who checked them, and how much did they count? Sorteo treats them as what they are — claims that get reviewed, decided, and published.
Priorities are claims, not checkboxes
At intake, a family flags the reason under the specific school it applies to: a sibling already enrolled at that school, a parent on staff there, or the reasons your district defines. Every claim captures its evidence in the moment (the sibling’s name and grade, the staff member’s role), so your team isn’t chasing details later.
Every claim is reviewed by you
Before the draw, your team approves or denies each claim, one by one, with the evidence in view. The family gets a decision email. No surprises on results day. And the draw can’t run with claims still unreviewed: review is a gate, not a suggestion.
How priority counts in the draw
Under deferred-acceptance matching, each school ranks its applicants by priority tier and, within a tier, by lottery number. A priority at one school never hurts a family’s chances anywhere else, and ranking schools honestly stays the best strategy, priority or not.
Siblings applying together
When two siblings enter the same lottery, your district can turn on a soft boost: each entry’s receipt carries a “register a sibling” link that ties the family together, and the draw gently nudges toward the school where a sibling has already landed, without ever taking a seat from another placed student. The boost is recorded in the draw’s published record.
Published, so it holds up
The draw’s transcript publishes every school’s full ranking and every cutoff, so exactly how each priority counted is visible: anyone can verify the result, not just take it on faith.