WHAT IT COSTS TO ATTEND FAITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Justification for Payments

While most school districts, including public and charter schools, may be given five to eight thousand dollars per pupil per year for operation, as an independent Christian school, Faith depends on school fees, contributions, and fund-raising to support it's operations.

There is no church to depend upon for monthly support. To-date, there has been no endowment, and no scholarship funds to augment meager school income or to offer parents financial assistance. The school has received only two official grants, totaling $33,017.00 in it's twenty-one years of operation.

It is presumed and required that parents who register their child(ren) are able and committed to make regular and prompt payments unless the account is paid out in advance. Delinquent accounts and slow payments will be costly and may very well result in the dismissal of the student.

There is no separate Required Registration Fee. The Registration Fee for the 2004-2005 Academic Term is a portion of the tenth or final tuition installment payment for May 2005. The portion of the advance tuition payment, which is what the registration fee is, started as low as $165.00. The closer one gets to the opening of school or after school begins, the higher the amount of the registration (or advance 10^th payment) will be. Just prior to the opening of school, expect to pay $300.00 registration fee plus the first or August 2004, tuition installment.

Following this plan, is clear to see that the regular monthly tuition payments are schedule August 1, 2004 – April 1, 2005, with the remaining portion (from the registration fee amount paid prior to or at the beginning of the student’s registration being due May 1, 2005). In some parents case this amount would be as low as $30.00.

The concept to keep in mind is that the cost for a first child to attend the school is $3,300.00 for the term. The parent’s payment schedule is not related to the number of days school is in session or closed during a given payment month. The schedule of payments is a device to accommodate the need of many of our parents to pay smaller or manageable installments rather than pay the full amount due at the beginning of school or pay nine installments (while students are in school only), which would mean a slightly higher payment amount. Therefore, one might consider tuition installments in the same sense as a car or refrigerator, the amount having nothing to do with the length, or number of days in a given payment month. The difference being that tuition payment is, of course, a very high priority payment for the family’s budget.