Is the school $50 school application fee and $150 registration or $175 re-registration fee refundable?
No, these fees, per the Parent Student Handbook and the signed tuition contract explicitly state that these fees are non-refundable. Our office staff goes through many registration applications before students are admitted into the school and it is a long process that takes a lot of time and careful attention including a review of forms, an interview, background checks, testing, and a shadow day.
The registration and re-registration fees are paid in advance to hold a spot for a student in the school for the coming school year. This means that if the school is to hold that space, no other students can enter the school if we are assuming the class is at full capacity. Sometimes families pay this fee but do not return to the school and do not give us advance notice. Because that child’s spot was already saved (because of the paid registration fee) and other students were put on the wait list or turned away due to no available space, the school would need to recoup that loss somehow, and this is done by keeping the registration fee that was paid in advance.
Please see our Tuition page for more information.