Admissions
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Express Interest
Contact our Admissions team and we will get in touch with you to answer your questions or schedule a tour.
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Attend an Open House
We are hosting open houses for prospective parents and students on Sunday, October 27, 2024 and Tuesday, November 12, 2024. Ask all your questions, meet faculty, staff, and students.
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Shadow Day
Come spend a school day with us. Experience a Chesterton Academy education firsthand, meet current students, teachers, and the headmaster. Shadow Days are available on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays (October 15, 2024- January 31, 2025) Please call 380-222-6062 to schedule your visit.
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Apply to Enroll
Applications are completed online through FACTS. After your application is complete, our admissions team contact you to schedule a CLT placement test and family interview.
Whom We Seek
Chesterton Academy of St. Benedict seeks students who are eager to pursue truth, goodness, beauty, and virtue through a classical liberal arts curriculum rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition.
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What do we look for in an applicant? We look for applicants who are open to seeing the goodness, beauty, and truth in creation, who seek to lead a virtuous life in service to God. We look for applicants who are willing to give their all to being Saints, and to helping and encouraging their classmates and others to become Saints.
Academic ability, though important, is secondary to character in this process: students of diverse talents and gifts will be accepted. The process is competitive, and not everyone who applies will be accepted. Components of the application include: statements by applicants and their parents, report cards, a writing sample, and scores from the Classic Learning Test given at the school each February.
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Chesterton Academy of St. Benedict 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. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
An Affordable Education
Chesterton Academy of St. Benedict 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 are expected to volunteer and assist with fundraising.
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Tuition for the 2024-25 school year is $9,250. The book & activity fee is $550.
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Tuition assistance is available to families who apply and qualify for aid. Chesterton Academy utilizes the services of FACTS to help fairly allocate our aid dollars. The student application process must be completed in full before being considered for tuition assistance.
For the 2024-2025 academic year, 100% of students who applied for financial aid received an award.
Admissions Events
Placement Exam
All students are required to take a placement exam as part of the 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.
We administer the Classic Learning Test 8 as our placement exam for incoming students. The placement exam covers:
Verbal reasoning skills
Grammar and writing skills
Quantitative reasoning skills
Once your application is complete, we will reach out to you to schedule your placement exam.
