Drive Equity, Accessibility, and Family Empowerment through the leading Match technology

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Avela is the leading force in matching technology to further choice, diversification, access & equity

Our web software enables districts and schools to increase fair and equitable access to schools. Through Avela Match, districts and schools can design and implement equitable enrollment policies and admission lotteries.

You can run simulations to forecast the effect of different policies and ensure equity, and then run centralized assignments and manage automated waitlists. Designed by leading experts in school enrollment and powered by Nobel Prize winning algorithms, Avela Matchis the right choice to ensure equitable school assignments and alignment to best practices.

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Deferred Acceptance, Cumulative Offer Mechanism, Top Trading Cycles, & Hungarian Optimization

Avela is the leading force behind blind computerized school lotteries, utilizing best practices from UE districts. Our platform implements Deferred Acceptance, Cumulative Offer Mechanism, Top Trading Cycles, and Hungarian Optimization. Deferred Acceptance is our recommended matching algorithm, and Avela has deep expertise with DA. Avela's team consists of the industry experts who created these matching algorithms and have set the industry best practices.

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Avela allows you to create an unlimited number of lottery priorities (and eligibilities). These can be assigned programmatically based on responses to application responses, profile fields, or uploaded data. Priority buckets can be used by individual or groups of schools, and can apply to programs or grades within schools.

Lottery Priorities & Lottery Groups

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Avela allows enrollment/seat cut-offs to be set by school, grade, and lottery bucket. We allow for both a seat capacity and a number of desired offers, which may exceed the seat capacity if your district overoffers to plan for likely attrition.

Enrollment cutoffs by school, grade & lottery groups

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School administrators can add, edit, and remove school priorities, programs, capacities, and required diversity targets for their assigned school(s). Administrators can create and run custom reports on stored lottery data, as well as manage and quality-check each school’s configured choice parameters (priorities, capacity, etc.), manage waitlists, view, enter, and update algorithm inputs and

District & Admin Controls

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The best school lottery technology in the industry.

AVELA MATCH

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Blind Computerized Lotteries

Best-in-class Algorithms

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Powerful Admin Controls

Geographic (or other) Defined Requirements

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Diversity Capacity Targets

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Choice Priorities & Custom Weights

Robust Waitlist Tracking & Management

Dynamic Waitlists

Powerful Reporting

Transparent and Auditable

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Empowering Family Dashboard & Communications

Tie Breaker Technology

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“This partnership has far exceeded our expectations. Avela is a team of solutions oriented people have that help us not only create a better family product, but innovate and improve our enrollment processes and systems. Overall performance is excellent. They exceeded our expectations and response to our needs while delivering a high quality product that is on schedule and within the price quote.-

-NOLA Public Schools

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“This partnership has far exceeded our expectations. Avela is a team of solutions oriented people have that help us not only create a better family product, but innovate and improve our enrollment processes and systems. Overall performance is excellent. They exceeded our expectations and response to our needs while delivering a high quality product that is on schedule and within the price quote.
- NOLA Public Schools

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