Merit Scholarships are awarded to incoming ninth grade students and are non-need based. Criteria are based upon strong academic performance, test scores, and your daughter’s potential for success.
Woodlands Academy utilizes the School and Student Service for Financial Aid's need analysis service to determine your family’s contribution to tuition. You submit information to SSS on forms provided by the Office of Admission and Financial Aid. To establish your contribution, SSS considers factors such as total income, assets, family size, and number of children in tuition-charging schools.
After we have accepted your daughter for admission, our Financial Aid committee determines awards on the basis of demonstrated financial need without regard to race, sexual orientation, religion, national or ethnic origin in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations. Each award is need-based and requires no direct repayment. However, the school hopes that, when possible, current recipients will make an effort to be generous to the school at a later date so that future students can enjoy a Woodlands Academy education. Please remember: awards are reviewed annually and are only based on financial need and not on academic, athletic, or artistic performance.
To reserve a place for your daughter, you must submit a non-refundable deposit in the spring preceding the year of attendance. This deposit, which is applied to your daughter’s tuition, is equal to 10% of the annual fee minus any financial aid award. Once you pay your deposit, your choice of options for paying the balance include:
Direct Payment: the initial billing for the first installment is due and payable June 15 and covers 60% of the remaining balance. The remaining 40% is due and payable November 15.
Monthly Payment Plan: Woodlands Academy offers the option to make tuition payments on a monthly basis through the Sallie Mae Tuition Payment Plan. This interest-free plan offers a payment schedule spread out over a 10-month period.
The following items are required to complete the application process for Woodlands Academy:
Application
Complete the application for admission and send it with the application fee of $50 domestic, $100 international
Student Essay
Parent Essay
Credentials Release Form
Recommendations
English, Math, Foreign Language, and Principal/Homeroom Teacher recommendations are mandatory.
A Foreign Language recommendation is only required if you have been taking a foreign language at your present school. Remember to print your full name on each recommendation form and distribute them along with an envelope addressed to Woodlands Academy.
Interview/Shadow day
Schedule a shadow day at Woodlands Academy and an interview with a member of the Office of Admission and Financial Aid.
Secondary School Admission Test Scores (SSAT)
The Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT) is required. Please request on the registration form that your scores be reported directly to Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart. Our school code is 8273. Students are encouraged to take the SSAT in October, November, December, or January.
Please contact the Office of Admission and Financial Aid for questions or more information.