We read The Lottery in, I think, tenth grade. I’m not a fan of being scared (too high strung all the time) and that story left me unsettled for days.
I read The Lottery in high school and remembered feeling it was hokey. I was annoyed that my class had to discuss it as serious literature. We also read more serious stories like The Fall of the House of Usher and the poem The Raven, which at least qualify as high literature. As for Poe, I have great esteem for The Black Cat, another of his tales which is now being widely read in high schools.