The First Pupil Day for the 2008 -2009 School Year Will Be Monday, August 25, 2008. 

    Enrolling a student in Faith Elementary and Middle School is simple and easy once you have made the determination that you that your child can likely grow scholastically and in character at FEMS. We are interested in serious parents who know  they can afford being a Faith Parent, or parents who are aware of what it takes to have and keep a student enrolled at Faith, and are willing to accept the responsibility to meet their obligations on a timely basis by sacrifice. As much as we are dedicated to offering our students our very best, it must be very clear to each parent that we cannot accept or maintain in our enrollment any student who is likely to become a ward of the school because the parent cannot or will not regularly meet his or her financial and support commitments to the school. To this extent, we are only able and willing to accept and keep students whose parents hold their child's matriculation at Faith as a high priority. We do not have enough time or energy to take on the roll of a collection company to beg, cojole, or repeatedly remind a parent that the school needs funds the parent already agreed to pay timely prior to enrollment. This is especially true when the parent has sufficient other school choices beside FEMS.

    We regret that we do not have student scholarships to offer. It will not do for a parent to deliver us a student and decide that the school will train the student despite the parent's inattention to their financial promise or as they offer one excuse or the other for non-payment, or make promises that will never be honored. This is no longer the school; this is also not the time. Parents who are honest, and who accept that the school depends on EACH parent to be as faithful to the school as we will be to their child are welcome to inquire on. Others should find another program to meet their child's need. In the past, often our compassion for those who said they needed our services but were not faithful in keeping their contractual commitments have endangered our ability to serve students whose parents were faithful, supportive, and dependable. Those days are gone. Should God ever bless us with resources to offer services to students from needy families, we will be more than willing to announce and develop a financial aide program. Our concern is to serve any student needing our services; nevertheless, the reality of our situation is that we may serve only students whom someone or some entity is faithfully funding and supporting to make matriculation in the school possible. If the foregoing did not offend or discourage you, we welcome you to read on:

• The First Thing to Do is to secure a free written information, or simply and carefully review the information provided on the school's web page as you may already be doing (www.feschool.org, or www.faithelementaryschool.org); or visit the school and request the necessary information and documents. You are welcome to request an appointment.  

• Be sure you can afford to enroll a student, or that you will be willing to make it happen; Complete the multi-page Student Registration Application Form; 

• Arrange for a current Student Physical Examination by a qualified physician, including Immunization Record; 

• Determine that you can accept the school's Rules including Discipline; 

• Pay the first and last of ten tuition installments as you deliver your completed Student Registration Application ($700.00), or pay in part up to August 1, 2007; 

• Select the Fee Payment Plan that best suits your resources and interests, i.e., after your initial payment of $700.00, are you interested in paying the remaining eight (8) payments (September 2008 - April 2009, or October 2008 - June 2009);

• Present the student's Birth Certificate to be copied along  with the documents listed above; and finally, 

• Sign pertinent acceptance and permission forms, i.e., Travel Permission, Emergency Medical Treatment, and Parent Emergency or Discipline Student Pick-Up Authorization forms, and School Rules Acceptance, among others.

• Registration Fees (the first installment , $350.00, is non-refundable (in some select cases, refund will be permissible on July 2, 2009, not to be expected before);

• Understand that tuition refunds may take from 30 days up to July 5, 2009; only serious and not curious parents should go as far as registering a student.

 Forms And Documents To Complete and Provide

• Current Student Registration Application Form
• Student Birth Certificate
• Student Social Security Card If Available
• Travel, Emergency Treatment, Contacts List, Acceptance of School Rules, and Other Required Forms, Most of Which Are Listed On the website(s) And/Or Will Be Available At Parent Orientation On Thursday Evening, August 21, 2008, at 7:00 p.m.
• Be Sure That Each of These Documents Is Fully Completed, Signed, Dated.
• Kindly Also Provide a List Of Any Special Student Needs, Including Diet Restrictions or Food Allergies;
• Appropriate Installments (1st and tenth) amount in cash, money order, cashier's check, or good personal check. Kindly include Late payment fee if installments are provided or to be received by school after the appropriate payment deadline.