HOW TO GET A STUDENT ENROLLED

    The First Pupil Day for the 2007 -2008 School Year Will Be Monday, August 27, 2007. 

Enrolling a student in Faith Elementary and Middle School is simple and easy once you have made the determination that you are convinced 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  ery 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 are sorry 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 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, or pay in part up to August 1, 2007; 

• Select the Fees 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 2007 - April 2008, or October 2007 - June 2008);

• 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.  

• Registration Fees (the first installment , $350.00, is non-refundable (in some select cases, refund will be permissible on July 2, 2008, not before);

• Understand that tuition refunds may take from 30 days up to July 5, 2008; only serious and not curious parents should go as far as registering a student.

  The Major Changes Planned For This Year’s Student Term

(1)    Computer Lab Computers are to be networked and internet accessible to each user at the same time;

(2)    We are seriously investigating purchasing the A Beka Video Foreign Language Program (Spanish) or some similar program  for upper-grades students;

(3)    We are requesting each parents qualifying for a Delaware Transportation Reimbursement this year (with a student age five and older enrolled in K - 6 grade by September 30,

         to donate their total transportation reimbursement for the term, which may be approximately $200.00 plus or minus dollars per family to enable the school to finance it's proposed    

         new foreign language program. A donation form will be provided. Donations are tax deductible.

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, and Other Required Forms, All of Which Are Listed in This Section Above
• 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.