Admissions
Your Next Steps
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Step 1: Express Interest
Fill out our interest form below. A member of our admissions team will contact you to answer your questions and provide more info.
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Step 2: Attend a Shadow Day
Students are invited to attend a Shadow Day Experience at our school. Students will be partnered with a Student Ambassador, attend classes, meet other students and our faculty, learn about our curriculum, and explore other student activities. School visits are also recommended for prospective parents and students, either before or after the Shadow Day.
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Step 3: Apply to Enroll
Our application process is completed online. After your application is complete, a member of our admissions team will meet one-on-one with you and your student.
Open enrollment is available now.
The Cost of a Chesterton Education
Chesterton Academy of St. Andrew is committed to offering an outstanding high school education at an affordable cost to families. Because tuition does not cover the full cost of an education at Chesterton, families aid in fundraising efforts and volunteerism throughout the school year.
The true cost to educate a student is much higher than what families pay, resulting in a deficit that is heavily subsidized by our donors. This model is designed to discount the cost of education to nearly half the typical regional cost for private education and keep classical, faith-based education affordable for middle-class families. We are dedicated to making this high school accessible to all who desire it, regardless of a family’s financial situation, and ensuring that cost is not a barrier to attendance.
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Tuition: $8750 (book and activities fees included)
Uniforms: $200-300 -
Financial aid is awarded to families who apply and qualify for aid. Chesterton Academy utilizes the services of an application process to help us allocate our limited aid dollars fairly.
The student application process and application for financial aid must be completed by mid-May. All past-due bills must be paid before being considered for tuition assistance.
The Board of Directors meets in the Spring to decide the amount to allocate for tuition assistance. When a decision is reached, an update letter will be sent to families who have applied and enrolled.
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Chesterton Academy of St. Andrew admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
Connect with our admissions team.
Fill out the form below to express admissions interest, and we will follow up with more info.
Placement Exam
All students are required to take a placement exam as part of the application and enrollment process. The placement exam is used as a diagnostic tool to ensure students are placed in the appropriate section of math or Latin, and to help identify areas of academic strengths and opportunities for growth.
After we receive your student’s application, we will contact you regarding the placement exam. There is no need to study or prepare for this exam.
Frequently Asked Questions
Life at Chesterton Academy
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7:40AM Arrival
8:00AM Mass or Sung Lauds (Monday)
8:40AM Period 1
9:27AM Period 2
10:14AM Period 3
11:01AM Period 4
11:46AM Angelus + Lunch
12:20PM Period 5
1:05PM Period 6
1:50PM Period 7
2:35PM Period 8
3:20PM Closing Prayer + Clean-up
3:30PM Dismissal
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Student bring their own lunch on regular days. Refrigerators, microwaves, toasters, ovens, and kettles are available. On Feast Days (listed in the calendar) lunch is provided.
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During a special ceremony on Week 0, new students are initiated into their house and welcomed by their new housemates. Once a house has been chosen for a student, they will remain in that house until they graduate.
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Chesterton Academy welcomes transfer students each year who come from public, private, homeschool, and online high school environments.
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Our students come from a wide range of educational backgrounds, including parochial K-8 schools, public schools, homeschool, and online high schools. Our current student body also includes non-Catholics, from Anglican and evangelical backgrounds.
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Chesterton Academy works to limit assigned homework to an hour and a half to two hours of homework per evening. We seek to be efficient in the learning process such that students have time in the evenings to spend with their family and to commit to extracurricular activities and after-school jobs. We also build the class schedule to include three to four study periods.
Preparing for your first day
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The tradition of school uniforms goes back to Medieval times when caps and gowns were required at universities. Thus, all students regardless of background would dress alike, and all would show an outward sign of their dedication to the task of learning together within the university community. In other words, from the very beginning, uniforms have been in support of three goals: modesty, professionalism, and community, or school spirit. Our uniform policy aims at the same three goals. Uniforms may be purchased from Donald's Uniforms. Please contact our admissions team with questions or for group order information.
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Students receive summer reading from their literature teacher to be completed before the following school year, where their reading will serve as the foundation of the first unit. See the Current Families tab for more information.
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The school supply list is released in July together with details on summer reading assignments.
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For this school, ‘classical’ or ‘liberal-arts’ education means a particular goal, methodology, and curriculum. The curriculum is historical: Greek and Roman philosophers, the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, early Church Fathers, great texts of the medieval and modern periods, down to contemporary thinkers and issues. The method is fundamentally oral: close reading paired with Socratic questioning and seminars, though also traditional lectures and persuasive speaking and writing. The goal is a breadth of integrated knowledge, a habit of disciplined curiosity about the world around us and above us, and a pattern of cheerful and virtuous living. In short, a fully human person.