The office gives every figure in writing at a visit, in Spanish or English.
Tuition is set for the school year and depends on the grade your child enters and whether you use before and after care. It is paid by the year, by the term or by the month. The office gives you the school's figures at the visit.
Set by grade
Before and after care are billed apart
Figures given in writing at the visit
When you apply there is an application payment, which covers reading the application and a conversation with your child. After you accept an offer, an enrollment payment holds the place.
Application: when you apply
Enrollment: when you accept an offer
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.
Signed agreement and first payment
Waitlist by order of joining
You may pay by the year, by the term or by the month. The office goes over the schedule with you at enrollment and explains how each payment is made. Before and after care are billed by the month.
By the year, term or month
The office explains each way to pay
Financial aid is available; here is how to apply. With your application, the office gives you the aid form. A school committee reads each form and answers in the same week as admissions decisions. Ask the office about state programs for families who may qualify.
The aid form comes with the application
Decided with admissions
Ask us about state programs
Brothers and sisters are read in the same admissions season so a family hears about everyone at once.
We ask families to tell the office in writing before the end of a term. The enrollment agreement explains how a term in progress is handled, and you may read it before you sign.
Classes
Ages 5 to 7
English comes in through stories, art, music and play. Reading and writing in English begin in grade 2.
Ages 7 to 9
Reading and writing in English have a block of their own each day.
Ages 9 to 11
Students move between the two languages across the week.
Sample programs.
The office explains the form and tells you when it is decided.