What sets tuition, how a place is held and how to ask about aid, in plain words.
Tuition is set for the school year and depends on whether a student comes the full five days or only the three outdoor days, and on when a student starts. The guides go through the figures with you at a visit, and the office sends the current ones after a visit day.
The full week, or the three outdoor days
A start in August or partway through the year
Gear and trips, listed on their own
An application goes in after a visit day. It covers reading the application and starting a student's file, and it is due when a family applies. Enrollment is a separate step that follows an offer.
When a place is offered, a family has two weeks to answer. A signed enrollment agreement and a first payment hold the place, and that payment counts toward tuition. If every place is taken, a family can join the waitlist, and offers go out in the order families joined.
Tuition is billed monthly across the school year, and a family who would rather pay by the term can ask at the visit. Summer weeks are billed a week at a time, when a family registers for them.
Financial aid is available. Here is how to apply: after the application, a family fills in a short aid form and talks with a guide about what the family can manage. Decisions go out with the offer. Ask us at a visit whether a state education program applies to your family.
Families with more than one child in the school can ask the office how that is handled. The office explains it in writing along with the tuition.
We ask for a month's notice in writing before a student leaves. What happens to a month in progress is in the enrollment agreement.
Rain gear, boots and layers come from home. The school buys paper, tools and garden supplies and lists them as materials, and a few trips off the mountain are listed ahead of time and billed when a family signs the permission slip.
Days and costs
Every student joins the same group. The columns show the days, and the costs below say what each is for.
Ages 5 to 10
Reading, writing and math are in two groups by age; everything else is mixed.
Sample programs.
Bring your questions to a visit day, or write to the office.