POLICIES & PROCEDURES:
Admission Policy
ALL CHILDREN MUST BE (RE)REGISTERED EVERY YEAR.
All schools must have a process of admitting students. As part of this process, the Pastor/Archbishop’s Representative, the principal and, when practical, a member of Education Committee shall meet with each new family. Any difficulties arising out of the interview process shall be referred to the Pastor/Archbishop’s Representative for resolution.
Families shall read and sign the Statement of Commitment prior to being accepted into a school. For purpose of this policy:
- Practicing Catholics shall mean those individuals who are registered in a parish and attend Sunday Mass regularly
- Active in Parish shall mean participate in the work activities required of them.
Priorities for admittance into elementary school shall be:
- Children presently enrolled in the school if they and their families meet the expectation of the school.
- Siblings of children already in the school, whose families are practicing Catholics active in the parish.
- Children whose families are practicing Catholics active in the parish.
- Siblings of children already in the school, whose families are practicing Catholics active in other parishes.
- Children whose families are practicing Catholics coming into the parish, who have been attending Catholic school elsewhere.
- Children whose families are practicing Catholics active in other parishes.
- Children whose families are neither practicing Catholics nor active in their parishes.
- Non-Catholics. Enrollment of more than 15% non-Catholics in any grade requires the approval of the Board of Directors. Once accepted into the school, non-Catholics need to meet only criteria expected of other students to be re-admitted in subsequent years. Sibling of non-Catholics cannot be given priorities over Catholics.
