You are invited to attend a GREEN Charter Schools Meeting for Prospective Families. We also encourage you to participate in a school tour. The link to request a tour can be found on each campus website. Our full Enrollment Timeline as well as a list of Frequently Asked Questions can be found below.
Meeting Dates
Lowcountry K-8: Open Houses 5:30-6:30pm on November 12, December 2, and December 11
Process Overview for CURRENT Students:
DO NOT complete a 26-27 Lottery Application OR a 26-27 Registration Form in Scribbles.
- Instead, by December 15, 2025, complete the 26-27 Intent to Return to let us know if you are returning in August 2026. Please note:
Pelham Road 5th graders are automatically assigned to 6th grade at the Century Drive campus.
All other 5th graders are assigned to 6th grade at their current campus.
- Any 8th grader already enrolled at a GREEN campus may claim their spot at GREEN Upstate High School in Simpsonville by indicating so on the 26-27 Intent to Return form. No Lottery Application is needed.
On the Intent to Return form, you will answer “Yes” to the question about being in 8th grade this year. Then, you will answer “Yes” or “No” to choose whether or not you will be enrolling in 9th grade at GREEN Upstate High School in Simpsonville.
A Transfer Request Google Form will be shared mid-November with current families. However, we expect EXTREMELY LIMITED seats to be available to offer to transfer students now that our Greenville and Simpsonville campuses are full. In most grade levels the number of seats available will be zero. If a student is able to transfer, we DO NOT GUARANTEE that siblings will also be able to move. It is more likely that you would have students at more than one campus as we can only offer what is vacated by current students.
Please notify your school office staff if you need to change your Intent to Return form. Do not submit a new one.
Process Overview for NEW Students:
Go to greencharterscc.scriborder.com and create a family account in Scribbles if you do not already have one.
Add student profile(s) to your Family Dashboard if they are not already there.
Complete a 26-27 Lottery Application for each student you wish to attend by clicking Begin Application.
If you are offered a seat, log in to Scribbles and accept the seat on your Family Dashboard within two weeks.
- If you have accepted a seat, log in to Scribbles and complete the 26-27 Registration Form by clicking the Begin Application button and completing the form within three weeks of accepting your seat.
If you complete a 26-27 Registration Form but have not been offered a seat AND accepted that seat offer, your registration form will be denied as every student must apply AND be accepted before completing the registration (enrollment) process.
Process Timeline for Students (checks mark to whom each item applies):
Date | Current Students | New Students | Event | Details |
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October 2025 | | ✔ | Information Meetings/Join Ups for Prospective Families | At these meetings, parents will learn about GREEN Charter and will be able to tour the school. Each campus will set their own dates which will be announced on their websites and on social media.
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11/01/25
– 12/15/25 | ✔ | | Intent to Return Due in Scribbles | By December 15, all CURRENT students must notify their school whether or not they will be returning via the Scribbles form.. These forms help us determine how many seats are available in each grade level for the lottery. This saves your seat if returning.
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11/01/25
– 12/15/25 | | ✔ | Open Enrollment Period in Scribbles (our enrollment software)
| Online application for 26-27 opens on 11/1. Most seats will be filled during this lottery. Siblings of current students must apply during this period to receive sibling preference. The January lottery will only include students who completed the 26-27 application by midnight on 12/15/25. Current students DO NOT complete an Application.
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TBD per campus |
| ✔ | School Tours
| Each campus has a specific set of dates and times during which tours will be held. These events are listed on each individual school’s website. We may not be able to accommodate tours outside these scheduled events as we want to minimize the disruptions to our current students.
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Friday
01/09/26 |
| ✔ | Lottery Drawing Notifications Sent via Email | The Lottery will be run and students will be placed either in an open seat or on a waitlist for their grade level. Once processed, all applicants, regardless of status, will be notified via email. Please make sure your email is correct. Please do not contact the school for your result. The email you receive will have both your results and the link to accept or decline your seat.
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Friday,
01/23/26
(2 weeks after seat offer) |
| ✔ | Seat Acceptance Due in Scribbles | All offers must be accepted or declined by this date. The application of any student who does not accept or decline the seat they’ve been offered will automatically be discarded once the deadline occurs. If an application is discarded, that seat will be immediately offered to the next person in line.
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Friday,
Feb 13, 2026
(3 weeks after acceptance deadline) |
| ✔ | Registration Form Due in Scribbles | Online registration forms must be submitted by this date. Any student who does not submit their form by March 14 will be removed from the enrollment list, and the seat will be offered to the next student on the waitlist.
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Dates and Times TBD by each campus. | ✔ | ✔ | Family Join Up! Meeting
(REQUIRED) | Families and students will meet with staff members to review school and family expectations, ask any questions, and purchase school uniforms if they choose. Newly accepted students at GREEN Upstate High School will register their course requests at this meeting. This meeting is REQUIRED for students to attend GREEN Charter Schools.
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*Applications submitted after December 15, 2025 will be placed on the waitlist after all on-time lottery applicants.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do I have to reapply if I applied last year?
A: Yes. We conduct a new lottery for all seats every year. Waitlists do not carry over from year to year.
Q: Who is considered a sibling for current sibling preference?
A: To be considered a “sibling” for purposes of sibling preference, an applicant must share at least one birth, adopted, foster, or stepparent with a student who is currently enrolled at GREEN.
Q: If I apply to more than one campus and accept a seat at a school, can I stay on the other waitlists?
A: No. If a student applies to multiple campuses, and accepts a seat at any GREEN Charter campus, they will be removed from the waitlists of all other GREEN Charter campuses.
Q: If my sibling is enrolled in 3rd grade at a campus, can I get preference for a seat at a different one?
A: No. For grades K-8, students only receive Current Sibling Preference or Family Preference at the campus their sibling attends. Students who apply to GREEN Upstate High School will get Current Sibling Preference, because it is our only high school, and the school their younger sibling attends does not offer the grades they need.
Q: If I said I was not returning to GREEN next year and changed my mind later, can I get my seat back?
A: Maybe. When you tell us you are not returning, we offer your seat to another family in the lottery. We can only give you your seat back if no one has already taken it.
Q: As a current student, if I am not able to transfer internally because no seats are available, can I complete a Lottery Application and get preference for a seat at the campus I want to attend?
A: No. If a student is unable to transfer to their campus of choice and decides to apply to that other campus as a new student via the Lottery Application, they will not be afforded Sibling Preference even if they have a sibling at GUHS as they already have a seat they are choosing to forfeit.
Q: If I received preference because I either have a current sibling at GREEN or one of my siblings who also applied was offered a seat, do I still receive preferential placement?
A: Partially. While we will not move you down the list to where you may have started before preference was applied, if a student whose sibling is returning to GREEN or whose applying sibling is offered a seat needs a spot, they will be offered the seat before you to avoid creating transportation issues for their families.
Q: How does preference work?
A: Preference works as follows:
Every student who applies is assigned a random Lottery Number by Scribbles.
- Based on their answers on the Lottery Application, students are placed into Tiers and within the Tiers, they are in line for a seat based on their randomly assigned Lottery Number.
Tier 1: Dependents of Active-Duty Military (per new state law)
Tier 2: Children of GREEN Staff members
Tier 3: Siblings of Current Students (internal transfers come after this tier)
Tier 4: (empty before lottery is run) Family preference for applying siblings
Tier 5: All other applicants without preference
The lottery will seat every student in Tier 1, then every student in Tier 2, etc., until it has worked its way through all the Tiers, seating the students within the Tiers by their Lottery Number..
DURING the lottery, if you are a sibling of another applicant and one of you gets a seat, all of your siblings will be moved into Tier 4 to give you Family Preference. This DOES NOT GUARANTEE your siblings a seat. However, if there are enough seats in the grade level to which they applied, they will be offered one. If all seats are full in the grade level they need, those siblings who cannot be immediately seated will be moved to the top of the waitlist behind other siblings in the same situation, and each will be seated if or when seats become available.
If the sibling of a current student applies AFTER the lottery deadline, most, if not all, seats will have been filled. Because of this, if you are the sibling of a currently enrolled student (or a child of a staff member or an applicant who has at least one sibling who has received a seat), you will move to the top of the waitlist with other siblings in the same situation and each of you will be seated as seats become available. We cannot guarantee seats to siblings after the lottery as most of those seats will have been filled. Please be sure to apply during Open Enrollment..
Q: How will Internal Transfers work for currently enrolled GREEN students?
A: Due to the extremely limited number of seats available at each campus, every family should complete their Intent to Return by the December 15 due date as if they WILL NOT be allowed to transfer.
If any seats exist after returning students, active-duty military dependents, staff children, and siblings of current students at that campus (the preference group) are seated, those seats will be allocated to Internal Transfers by the timestamp on the Transfer Request Google Form that will be shared mid-November after a notification of the date and time the form will be opened.
As stated already, Internal Transfers will be EXTREMELY LIMITED, and in some grade levels, there may be no spots at all.
To determine the number of transfer spots available, we begin by determining how many seats will be open in a grade level the next year. If the school can seat 88 students total in a grade level, and 82 students are returning, we have 6 open seats for everyone in the preference group plus any internal transfers. If there are more than 6 students in the preference group, then there are zero spots for transfers and some preference group students will be waitlisted. If there are only 4 students in the preference group, that leaves 2 seats for internal transfers. If there are more than 2 requests for those seats, the first two transfers would be seated, and the remaining transfers would have two choices at GREEN. They can either stay at their current campus, or they can apply to the transfer school as a new student WITHOUT PREFERENCE and be waitlisted for when/if a seat opens up. They cannot keep their seat at their current campus while waiting for a seat at a different campus.