The admissions season for Fall enrollment is ongoing. Parents and students are encouraged to experience the HCA community at one of our admissions events. Go to “Plan a Visit” to register. If there is room in the grade at the end of the first semester, we admit students in grades 6-11. We offer rolling admissions for students in grades Preschool-Grade 5 if space is available.

Applications are processed in the order they are received. Apply early, as class size is limited and may fill up quickly. Applications are available online.

The application fees are as follows:

• Preschool: $75.00
• Lower-High School: $125.00

 

The child must be five years old by October 1st of the year he/she will start kindergarten. There are no exceptions permitted.

The Admission Committee evaluates a student’s potential success based on the application in its entirety. We review grades, behavior records, teacher/pastor recommendations, standardized test scores, entrance assessments, and the family interview.

Our goal at Hawthorne Christian Academy is to match students/families with our school mission statement by evaluating applicants on the spiritual, academic, and behavioral requirements identified in the admissions criteria. Refer to our admissions criteria for more information.

Families typically receive the admissions decision within one week of the applicants’ entrance testing and interviews.

Accept: The student and parent(s) are deemed a qualified mission-match for HCA and acceptance is offered. Parents have two weeks from the date of the acceptance to complete the enrollment documents and submit the required enrollment fee. Acceptance may be revoked if the student’s final report card shows a drop in academic or behavioral performance.

Wait Pool: A student is placed in the “wait pool” when he/she qualifies as a mission-match for HCA but there is no space available in the grade at that time. Wait pools are not prioritized wait lists. Should space become available in that grade, all candidates in the wait pool will be reviewed again by the Admissions Committee and the “most qualified” candidate will be selected.

Deny: When a student (and/or parent) is deemed not a mission-match for HCA, a denial letter is mailed to the parent(s) of the applicant. All parent communication is handled by the Admissions department. We are happy to clarify our admissions policies and procedures. However, due to the confidential nature of the admissions process, we are unable to discuss specific qualifications of any applicant, including reasons for denial. In the case of siblings who are not accepted, every effort will be made to contact the families by phone as a courtesy, followed by a letter. The denial decision is for one school year only and students are welcome to re-apply for future grades.

Placing Process on hold: If a student’s report card, transcript, test scores, or other information provided on the application (including, but not limited to student and family church attendance) show that the applicant will not meet the HCA admissions criteria at this time, the admission process is stopped. Out of respect for the applicant, the Admissions Officer will notify the parent(s) that the process has been placed on hold. Applicants are welcome to re-apply when criteria are met.

Priority Consideration: It is the desire of HCA to keep families together by giving priority consideration to qualified siblings, alumni, current HCA preschool students, and children of HCA faculty if space is still available.

Yes. Tuition aid is based on financial need. To complete an application visit www.factstuitionaid.com. There also are several other ways to save on tuition including: SCRIP program, Tri-County Scholarship Fund (Passaic, Morris and Sussex County residents are eligible to apply), and the Merit Scholarships for Middle and High School students who have attended HCA for at least one year. For more information about these programs, feel free to contact our Director of Admissions at admissions@hca.org.

Yes, the Merit scholarship is available for Middle School and High School students who have attended HCA for at least one year.

 

HCA is a Preschool through 12th-grade school.

Total enrollment for Preschool-12 is approximately 430 students.

Lower School: 10
Middle School: 14
High School: 18

The ratio is approximately 9 to 1.

Yes. HCA is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Association of Christian Schools International.

Over the last ten years, at least 97% of our graduates went on to institutes of higher learning.

The Academy has recently instituted a dress code. Please see the Dress Code page for more information.

HCA offers a variety of High School and Middle School sports.

See the Athletics section of the website for more information.

Yes. They are offered in grades 4-8 for an additional fee above tuition.

No, but we do have a partnership with Foodtown/Nicholas Market. Lunches can be ordered through their website and are delivered to the school each day. Our students in grades 2-12 leave their classrooms to have lunch in the Pavilion. Preschool, Kindergarten and grade 1 eat lunch and have a snack in their classrooms each day. Middle and High School students have a “Bagel Break” on Chapel Days in the Pavilion.

Yes. HCA offers both Before School and After School Care for students in Preschool through grade 5 for a nominal fee. Students in grade 6-8 who are on campus after 3:10 pm are required to go to the Middle School Study Center, for which there is also a fee.

HCA does not provide busing, however, some towns will either provide busing or transport reimbursement in lieu of busing.