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What do I get when I enroll? How much will it cost? Can I get a high school diploma? If so, what are the requirements? How do I enroll? After sending in the application and Tuition Payment Contract forms and payment, what happens next? What is the New Family Application fee? What is the Kindergarten Enrollment fee? Are there any Program fees? Will I need to get a transcript from a previous school? What are the Middle School and Junior High fees? What is the Saxon Math purchase price? Are there shipping and handling fees? Can I enroll in individual courses rather than in the full curriculum? Can I exchange a single course? May we receive a discount if we do our own grading? If we already have some of the books, will we receive a discount? Are there discounts if I enroll several children in the program? Does Seton have a monthly payment plan? Does Seton offer a discount if all fees are paid in advance? Who pays for postage for individual lessons? Do you have a Special Services department? Is there a refund policy? What are the program fees? What are the tuition fees?

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Seton Home Study School is an accredited full service Catholic school. When you enroll with Seton, Seton sends you everything you need to educate your children at home including daily lesson plans, textbooks, workbooks, tests and answer keys, and our services such as academic counseling, grading and report cards and transcripts. We have a priest on staff available full time. Our academic counselors are available to assist the teaching parents and students from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. There is often an academic counselor available to help you on evenings or on weekends, too. These counselors can be reached by phone, fax, e-mail and through our Message Boards. Each has expertise in different academic areas and counsels the parents who are the teachers in a home school. Seton maintains student records and provides transcripts when needed. Seton also provides our high school graduates with a well-recognized diploma.

The most important thing that you receive when you enroll with Seton is a strong Catholic academic curriculum and the chance to provide a superior Catholic education for your children. Seton graduates have been accepted at over 200 colleges and universities in the United States and other countries. Seton graduates have attended more than 70 of these schools on scholarships.

Information about tuition and fees may be found at the bottom of this page. Our tuition calculator will help you figure out how much your particular enrollment will cost.

Information about Seton’s requirements for a high school diploma, along with other useful information, can be found in the Curriculum section on page 3 of our online high school catalog.

Enrolling is easy. You may enroll on-line using your credit card (the easiest and fastest method). Or, if you prefer, you will find a Tuition Payment Contract and Application for Admission Form in the Acrobat file available here for download. (The forms for international enrollments are available here.) Simply fill out the application form, listing the courses. Please be sure to note any courses not on the students grade level as well as select the math. Please mail the forms to us with your payment. You may also enroll by telephone or by FAX, if you are paying by credit card.

Any new family will be sent a mini study skills course, Dr. Clark’s Catholic Home Schooling Handbook, placement tests, and transcript release forms. Once you have administered the placement tests, return them to us for grading and evaluation. Once we have evaluated the placement tests, we will send you the appropriate curriculum or, if need be, call you for further discussion regarding your child’s placement. In the case of children enrolling in high school, a high school counselor will contact you for final course selection and approval, if needed.

Program Fees

Every family that is new to Seton or has gone for more than one year without having a child enrolled must pay the New Family Application Fee. For this you will receive the placement tests (if enrolling in a full program), transcript release forms, a subscription to our newsletter, a mini study skills course (Grades 7-12), and a copy of Dr. Clark’s Catholic Home Schooling Handbook. This fee is paid at the same time as the regular program fees. It must be paid by any new family whether enrolling in a single course or a full program.

This fee pays for all the student books, the tuition, counseling services, the lesson plans, and the shipping and handling for our kindergarten program. Kindergarten students are not sent a placement test.

The Program Fee chart gives the current prices for full programs in grades 1-12, which include all textbooks, workbooks, lesson plans, counseling, tuition, tests, and shipping and handling. In all grades, even single courses, the lesson plans must be returned to us. Lesson plans should be returned upon completion of the work or within 12 months of the date of the original shipment, whichever comes first, unless an Extension Fee ($75 for 6 months) has been paid.

A full program for high school includes up to six courses/credits. Additional courses/credits may be taken at our regular single course rates.

When you enroll we send you a form to request an official transcript from your previous school so you dont have to have one at the time of enrolling. If you need a form sooner for some reason you can download a transcript request form here. If you have been home schooling and want a blank home school transcript form to report your previous work when enrolling at Seton you can use our Home School Transcript form, which you can download.

This covers the additional cost of middle school and junior high grading and materials. It must be paid at the same time as the regular program fees.

High School Fee: This fee covers the high school counselors evaluation of previous credits, selection of courses for current and future high school programs, the creation and updating of the files necessary for high school academic record keeping, and the additional costs for grading and counseling and the development of high school courses. Every child enrolling or re-enrolling in a high school full program must pay this fee. It must be paid at the same time as the regular program fees.

In grades five through high school, Seton uses Saxon math. The cost to purchase any math book is $20. For example, the Algebra 1/2 and its accompanying Solutions Manual would be $40-- $20 for the textbook and $20 for the solutions manual. If you already own the appropriate edition textbook, there is no need to purchase it. If you do not own the appropriate text, you will need to purchase it from Seton or from another source.

Shipping and handling fees for shipments within the United States are included in the Program Fees and/or Tuition Payment Contract. For all international shipments, please call for prices.

Yes, you can enroll in any course Seton offers from grades 1 - 12 on an individual basis. You can enroll in one single course or in a group of them. Please contact the Admissions Department via e-mail (admissions@setonhome.org) or via telephone (540-636-9990) for single course prices. A single course fee pays for all textbooks, workbooks, lesson plans, tests, counseling, tuition, and shipping and handling for a single course. Just as with the full enrollments, the lesson plans will need to be returned to us within 12 months, unless an extension is purchased. (The extension fee for a single course is $25.)

If you would like to exchange a course, you may do so within 45 days if the materials have not been used. Simply return the unused course materials and include a check for $8.00 ($12.00 AK, HI, CANADA) to cover shipping and handling. This exchange policy applies to any single course in grades 1-12.

Though you are not able to exchange a kindergarten course for a higher course level, you may choose to enroll your kindergarten child in one or more elementary courses at our regular single course prices.

If you have used any grade school materials for grades 1-8, or have had materials for more than 45 days and would like to exchange a course, please contact our shipping department at (540) 636-9990. If you wish to exchange a high school course after 45 days or after using the materials, you will need to enroll in a single course at our regular single course prices.

Course Extension Fees:

You may need more time to complete coursework than the allotted 12 months. For an extension fee of $75.00 for a full curriculum or $25.00 for a single course, you may keep the materials for an additional 6 months. High School courses may be extended only twice; after that, students need to re-enroll. Courses in grades 1-8 may be extended once before the student must re-enroll or return the Lesson Plans.

No. We feel very strongly that the assistance we provide your family with our counseling, our grading, and our record keeping are so valuable that we would be doing our families a disservice not to make those services part of our package price. However, if you want a report card, please send us your graded tests for our teachers to record the grades.

Yes, as long as you have made arrangements with us to customize the order prior to the shipment for your discount. We are not able to give you a discount once the materials have been shipped. Please realize the discount may not be what you pay for the book if you purchase it separately. (Please understand that this adjustment to your order may delay shipment.)

Seton has a multi-child discount built into our price structure for full enrollments. This discount applies only to children enrolled simultaneously.

Yes. Please see table below for prices and terms.

Yes. The prices given on our Tuition Payment Contract for advance payment include a pre-payment discount.

The family pays for lessons mailed to Seton. Seton pays for the lessons returned to the family after they have been graded. They are returned First Class to students within the United States and Canada, and by Air Mail outside the United States and Canada. For your convenience, you may send lessons to our Web site. Log in to My Seton and click on Courses, then on Send Assignments. The tests will be graded on the computer and returned to your computer. You may also send papers by e-mail to grading@setonhome.org. Papers may be faxed to 540-636-1602, but the clarity is not as good as over the Internet or by e-mail.

Yes. We offer this service for children with diagnosed learning difficulties. An additional fee is required. Please call the Special Services department for more information.

1. Due to Seton’s labor and material output in processing applications, the new family application fee, and a refund fee of $25 per student are non-refundable at all times regardless of how soon a cancellation may occur.

2. If cancellation should occur after the books are shipped, an additional fee of $15.00 will be retained by Seton for shipping and handling.

3. Once the books have been shipped, Seton will allow 10 business days from the shipment date for you to request a full refund, minus the non-refundable fees. We will issue the refund provided the books have not been used and the books are returned within 5 business days of notification of cancellation. (All times are based on the shipment date.)

Otherwise, the refund will be determined as follows:

4. If cancellation is requested,

after 1 month, Seton is due 1/4 tuition;
after 2 months, Seton is due 1/2 tuition;
after 3 months, Seton is due 3/4 tuition;
after 4 months, Seton is due full tuition;

5. If upon cancellation a refund is due from Seton, that refund will be mailed to the signer of the tuition contract within 30 days of the date of receipt of the returned books.

6. No refund is available on Kindergarten after two weeks.