The School Advisory Council sets the scale for tuition for each school year. It is anticipated that our Parish will spend $6,070.00 during the 2007-2008 school year to educate each student. Your tuition and fees cover only 61% of this cost. The 39% gap is filled largely by Parish support and school fundraising.

This tuition policy applies to all families, including those who have been granted tuition assistance.

School families who support and actively participate in parish and school activities receive a tuition reduction from the full $ 6,070.00 cost to educate each student. As a condition for receiving this subsidy from the Parish, the following is expected of school families:

1. Attendance at Sunday Mass at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
2. Regular tithing using your preprinted church offering envelopes
3. Willing and ready participation in Parish and School activities and fundraising, including but not limited to:
• Reporting and completing 30 SHARE Hours including 10 hours toward the Auction during the period 05/01/07 – 04/30/08 (15 hours for single parent families including 5 hours toward the Auction)
• Purchasing $ 250.00 of SCRIP for single families and 500.00 of SCRIP during the school year.
4. Tuition policy is as follows:
• Over a sixty day period, a family who is not keeping up with the required tuition payments will be given 10 days notice to pay or make arrangements with the business office.  If no satisfactory resolution is made, the family will be asked to withdraw their children from school.
• All parents with outgoing eighth grade students must have their final tuition payment, daycare and any outstanding fees turned into the office no later than May 30, 2008.  This will allow us to clear all books before graduation.  If payment is not received by that time, we will retain your student’s report card and standardized test score results until all fees are satisfied.
• Bad check policy:
  • Delinquent accounts must be paid by cash or credit cards
  • A delinquent account is denied by Business Manager

The Parish reserves the right to monitor these criteria and to demand out-of-parish tuition from families unwilling to meet these standards. If a school family fails at any time to meet these expectations, the Parish may deny future enrollment or rescind the tuition reduction and charge the actual per child cost retroactive to the beginning of the trimester in which the family ceased to meet the expectations listed above. This policy also applies to the subsidy for students from Parishes without schools.

Archdiocesan policy allows families from Parishes without schools to apply to their home Parish for an Out-Of-Parish Subsidy. If you are attending another Catholic Church at this time, contact your Pastor for application and eligibility guidelines.