Staff member: All on-time registrants will receive UPK placement; lottery sets site assignments

A staff member for the Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District said all families who registered on time will receive a spot in the district's universal prekindergarten (UPK) program, and the district held a public lottery to assign placements among partner providers and district buildings.

The staff member opened the session by telling attendees, “All of you who have registered in, by the end of the day on Wednesday will have a spot in UPK next year.” They said the lottery “is for us to place students” and that it would determine who would “secure a spot in 1 of those locations,” referring to Head Start, the YMCA and district school buildings. The official added the district will post a link to the video and send the lottery results to families who provided email addresses.

The remainder of the session consisted of the staff member reading the sequence of drawn application numbers aloud. The transcript records a long series of numeric identifiers read by the facilitator; the record includes a brief aside (“Only the middle school”) but does not tie specific drawn numbers to particular sites or list the total number of registrants. The staff member concluded by reiterating that on-time registrants have a place in UPK and thanking participants.

The transcript does not report any formal vote, motion or contested decision. It also does not specify how many applications were received, how many slots exist at each partner site, or the precise mapping from drawn numbers to sites. The staff member said the district will post the video of the drawing on its website and will email results to families that provided contact information. No further actions were recorded.