For Charter Schools

The lottery question doesn't wait until Monday morning.

Sam is an AI assistant trained on your school. It answers lottery, enrollment, and sibling-preference questions — in the languages your families speak — so your front office isn't drowning in repeat phone calls during lottery week.

20 min · No commitment · Live in 1 week

lighthousecharter.org

Welcome to Lighthouse Charter Academy

Tuition-free public charter school. Grades K–8 in Newark, NJ. Founded 2008.

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Hi! I'm Sam, your enrollment assistant for Lighthouse Charter. How can I help?
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What changes for you

Built for the way charter schools actually run.

70%

Parent questions self-served

The repeat questions your front office answers all day — lottery dates, sibling preference, bus routes — handled on your website, in the parent’s language.

<2 min

Answers any hour

Working parents who can’t call during 9–5 office hours get the same answer at 10pm that they’d get at the front desk.

24/7

Lottery-week relief

When the phones used to be unusable, parents get their answers from your site — and your team gets to do the work that needs them.

What Sam handles

From lottery question to submitted application, without phone tag.

Lottery dates and rules. Sibling preference. Whether your school is tuition-free. Bus routes and zoning. Grade availability. Waitlist mechanics. Sam answers from your enrollment handbook, then walks the family right to your application form.

See the ROI
lighthousecharter.org
Lighthouse Charter
Tuition-free public charter school. Grades K–8 in Newark, NJ. Founded 2008.
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Sam
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Lottery?
Sam pulls from your enrollment calendar and offers to send a reminder before the deadline.
Siblings?
Ask anything…
Built for charter schools

The features charter schools actually need.

Charter schools don't have admissions teams. They have front offices answering the same questions in three languages all day. Sam was built for that.

Available today

  • Live

    Multilingual

    Spanish, Turkish, Arabic. Parents ask in their language. Sam answers in their language. No setup, no toggles. Critical for working families who can’t call during office hours.

  • Live

    After-hours mode

    Different greeting and behavior outside school hours, so the experience reads right whether a parent asks at 9am or 10pm.

  • Live

    Conversation transcripts & search

    Browse every parent question. Find what the front office is repeating. Find what your website isn't explaining.

  • Live

    Knowledge gap reporting

    Weekly email of questions Sam couldn't answer. Tells you what friction parents are hitting.

  • Live

    Source-attributed answers

    Every answer links to the page it came from. No hallucinations.

  • Live

    FERPA-aware data handling

    PII redaction, configurable data retention, full audit log. Designed to support public charter compliance review.

On the roadmap

  • Coming May 2026

    Lottery & enrollment mode

    Seasonal mode that proactively captures lottery applicants and sends deadline reminders. The most charter-specific feature on the roadmap — ask us about timing if this is core to your buying decision.

  • Coming May 2026

    Threat & safety alerts

    Flags concerning language for human review. Real-time email + SMS to designated contacts.

  • Coming June 2026

    Multi-campus routing

    For networks: each campus answers from its own knowledge with no cross-campus answer leakage. Single-campus charters don’t need this.

  • Coming June 2026

    Network admin dashboard

    Network directors see all campuses in one place, push updates, compare metrics. For 3+ campus networks.

Sample Question Bank

The kinds of enrollment questions Sam handles without staff time.

Q.01

When is the lottery?

Sam pulls from your enrollment calendar and offers to send a reminder before the deadline.

Q.02

How does sibling preference work?

Sam explains your sibling rule, who qualifies, and how it affects placement odds.

Q.03

Is your school tuition-free?

Sam confirms your charter status and explains how it differs from private and district schools.

Q.04

Is there a waitlist for 4th grade?

Sam quotes your current waitlist length by grade and explains how movement typically works.

Q.05

Do I need to live in Newark to apply?

Sam answers from your eligibility rules — district preference, state-wide, or otherwise.

Q.06

Is there a bus from East Orange?

Sam answers from your transportation map and shares pickup details if available.

Your ROI Potential

See what Sam saves you every month.

Adjust the inputs to match your school. Sam typically resolves 70% of inquiries without staff time.

Your business

Parent questions / month300
501,500
Front-office hourly rate$22/hr
$18$30
Minutes per inquiry6 min
2 min20 min
Sam handles 70% of these without staff time.

Annualized impact

Based on your inputs, scaled across 12 months.
$5,544
In front office hours recovered, per year.
21
Hrs / month saved
252
Hrs / year saved
210 inquiries / month resolved by Sam without staff time. Plus the ones you would have lost overnight or on weekends.

"Lottery week, our phones used to be unusable. This year, parents got their answers from the website and our team actually got work done."

What we hear from school operators

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