Attend a Consultation
Interested in enrolling your student(s) in BCS? First, you will need to book a phone consultation or physical tour with our Admissions Coordinator. During your consultation, you will get a chance to talk about your child(s) academic needs, learn more about BCS and our Discipleship-Based-Education and ask any questions you may have. As a faith-based school, we do require one parent to be a Bible-believing Christian.
We thank you for your interest in BCS. We are at capacity for the 2023-2024 school year. If you would like to be contacted in late August to begin the admissions process for the 2024-2025 school year please fill out this Intent Form.
Complete the Application
Once you have completed a consultation:
- Our Admissions Team will e-mail you the online application tool, which contains an application checklist.
- Carefully complete all items on the application checklist.
- Once your online application is complete, drop off or scan and email the following to our Admission Team to complete the application process:
- $150 non-refundable application fee per child , and
- all required supporting documents per the application checklist.
- Our Admissions Team will record the date your fully completed application is received and prioritize your application accordingly. Please note that applications will not be considered complete until:
- the application fee has been paid in full, and
- all supporting documents have been received.
- All potential students whose applications are fully completed will be placed in our wait pool.
Faith Interview
Once the application is fully complete and classroom space is available, our Admissions Team will contact you to schedule a Faith Interview with our school administrators. BCS Families are authentically committed to discipleship-based education. This is a big commitment so we want to get to know you personally! The Faith Interview will give you a chance to tell us about how Jesus is making a difference in your family’s life. We’ll also have a chance to talk about what it means for families to partner with BCS to influence this generation for Christ.
Grade Placement Assessment / Student Interview
In order to make sure we can support the unique needs of our BCS families, your child may be part of language and/or learning testing, which will be scheduled after the Faith Interview meeting is completed. In addition, all Middle School and Senior High students will be interviewed by our Principal.
Student Selection
The Admissions Team will review and prioritize applicants for open positions. They use the following criteria to prioritize applicants:
- Results of the Family Interview and Placement Tests
- The number of children within a family who are applying (we want to be able to accommodate enrollment of all children within a family, if possible)
- Availability of tuition assistance funding where it has been requested
Registration
At the time the classroom placement is offered, you will be given registration and fee payment forms to complete. The $5000 capital fee/bond is due to secure the classroom space at the time the placement is offered.
The completed registration, fee payment forms, and capital fee/bond must be completed within five (5) business days of this offer. If not completed within five (5) business days, the offer for a classroom placement is withdrawn by BCS and the student is placed back into our wait pool.
If you are an existing family at Bearspaw Christian School and would like to apply to enrol a new student, the following steps outline the application process for you:
Complete The Application
Please contact our Admissions Team for a link to our easy to use online application tool:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 403-295-2566 Ext. 5751
An application checklist will be provided through the online application tool. Please make sure you carefully complete all of the items on the checklist as our Admissions Team will not consider partially completed applications.
Once your online application is complete, please bring the following to our Front Office to complete the application process:
- $150 Non-Refundable Application Fee per child (applications will not be considered complete until the application fee has been paid in full)
- All required supporting documents per the application checklist (applications will not be considered complete until all supporting documents have been received)
The date your application is fully completed (i.e. online forms completed, application fee and supporting documents are received by the school) will be recorded. This application completion date is used by our Admissions Team in our application prioritization process.
Grade Placement Assessment / Student Interviews
In order to make sure we can support the unique needs of our BCS Families, your child may be part of language / learning testing which will be scheduled after the application has been received. In addition, all secondary students will be interviewed by our Principal / Vice Principal.
Student Selection
All potential students of BCS from existing families whose applications are fully completed will be placed on our waitlist until the February time frame. This is when the school will know the number of classroom vacancies and the teachers and resource staff that we will have available to meet unique student requirements for the upcoming school year.
Beginning in February of each year, the Admissions Team will review and prioritize applicants from existing families for open positions.
The Admissions team will use the following criteria to prioritize applicants against grade openings and staffing availability:
- Results of the Student Interview and Placement Tests
- Availability of tuition assistance funding where it has been requested
Registration
Offers for classroom positions for existing families adding new students will be made in the mid to late February time frame.
At the time the position is offered, you will be given registration and fee payment forms to complete. All completed registration and fee payment forms must be submitted within 5 business days of this offer. If not submitted within 5 business days, the offer for a classroom position is withdrawn by BCS and your child is automatically placed on our waitlist.
Re-enrolment for Existing Students
Bearspaw Christian School has implemented an automatic re-enrolment process for existing students.
Currently, enrolled students are our first priority as we fill positions for the following school year. BCS will automatically re-enrol all existing students for the upcoming school year on the last business day of January unless we receive a Not Returning / Withdrawal Form from you.
If you have children that will not be returning to BCS for the upcoming school year, you will need to complete a Not Returning / Withdrawal Form – please contact the Admissions Team to obtain this form. If you have any questions about our Admissions Process, the Admissions Team can be reached at 403-295-2566 Ext. 5751 or [email protected].
Please note that the Not Returning / Withdrawal Form must be received by the school by the last business day of January to avoid a 25% late withdrawal fee.