How tuition and aid work

What sets tuition

Tuition is set by the school year and by a child's grade. Before and after care and the summer weeks are billed apart, for the days a family uses. The office gives the school's figures at every visit and on the enrollment page.

Registration

A family pays an application fee when it applies, which covers reading the application and meeting the family. After an offer there is an enrollment fee that holds the place. Each is listed, with its purpose, in the program matrix.

Holding a place

A place is held when the family signs the enrollment agreement and makes the first payment, which goes toward tuition. Families have until late March to answer an offer. If a grade is full, the office keeps a waitlist and calls families in the order they joined.

Billing

Families choose to pay by the year, by the term or by the month. Monthly payments run by autopay, and the office goes over the schedule with you at enrollment.

Help with tuition

Financial aid is available; here is how to apply. After you submit an application, the office sends an aid form. A small committee of the church board reads each form and answers in the same week as admissions decisions. Ask the office about state programs for families who may qualify.

Siblings

A second child, or a third, is handled differently, and the office explains how when you apply. Brothers and sisters are read in the same admissions season so a family hears about everyone at once.

Withdrawing

We ask for written notice a month before a child leaves, so the school can offer the place to a family on the waitlist. The office explains how a term already under way is handled when you enroll.