Tuition Assistance -
River’s
Edge Christian Academy has a Tuition Assistance Program, which
provides tuition assistance towards families who qualify. The school uses a
third-party organization, FAST, to evaluate a family’s financial
need. This organization
makes a recommendation to the school regarding the percentage of
tuition assistance to award.
The maximum amount of
tuition assistance a family may qualify for is 50%. The availability of this
program is dependent upon there being open available spaces in the
class(es) for which the family is applying for admission as of
August 1st. Students in
K4 are not eligible for tuition assistance. Families who are
granted tuition assistance are not automatically granted tuition
assistance for following school years. Families who have need of a
continuance of tuition assistance for a new school year must renew
their request for continuation of tuition assistance each year.
Re-application through FAST is required every other year (and any
new year in which the family’s circumstances have significantly
changed). Any
family interested in applying for tuition assistance will need to
complete the following steps:
1.
Notification
~ New and Returning Families.
Notify the school administration of your interest in receiving
tuition assistance. In order to do this, please email the Finance
Manager at finance@riversedgeca.com
before proceeding with the next steps. Please indicate your desire
to apply for tuition assistance, the names and grade levels of the
students you are applying for, and your contact
information.
2.
New
Student Application ~ New Families Only.
In order to establish your student’s space on the waiting list for
tuition assistance, we recommend proceeding with the on-line
application process. Please be aware that there is a $20
non-refundable New Student Application fee incurred for each new
student. This is due and payable to River’s Edge Christian Academy
at the time of the application. However, other registration fees and
tuition deposits are not due until all of the following conditions
have been met: (1) the family interview has been completed, (2) the
student has been offered a space in the class, (3) tuition
assistance has been offered by the school as well as accepted by the
family. However, once
the family has agreed to accept the tuition assistance terms,
registration fees and tuition deposits are due immediately and then
become non-refundable.
3.
FAST
Financial Assessment ~
New and Returning Families (every other year).
Use this link to access and complete the online FAST
application. This
provides the school an assessment of a family’s financial need and
determines what amount of tuition assistance the family will qualify
for. When you come to the END of the online application, you will be
asked to pay the FAST application fee of $35, right before
submitting the application. The $35 fee is paid to the third-party
organization for processing your application and is
non-refundable.
IMPORTANT!
Please note that if a family
applies for tuition assistance, their student(s) will not have a
guaranteed space in their respective classes. Other student
applications will have priority for space in the class until August
1st. Students will be placed on a waiting list for
tuition assistance and may be offered a space in a class only if
there is available space as of August 1st.
