Frequently Asked Questions

TUITION ASSISTANCE (TA)

Tuition assistance is offered for grades K-7 through Bishop Baraga’s Tuition Assistance Fund.  FACTS Grant & Aid Application System is used to process financial aid applications. All applications and supporting financial documents, along with a $45 application fee, are sent directly to FACTS.  The school receives a list of applicants, prioritized by need.  This ensures a fair and professional review of every applicant.  Any family may apply, regardless of religious affiliation. Students must be registered in a K-7 class before applying, you must be using the Scrip program and, unless you are a new parent to BBCS, you must have been meeting your 20 volunteer service hours per year.

The process for applying for TA is to enter your information into the BBCS FACTS, Grant and Aid program. The Tuition Assistance Committee meets in May to review all applicants, taking into consideration each family’s individual needs and determine the amounts to be granted for the following school year’s tuition.

Raise Right

The following Scrip Program, Scholarships and Tuition Assistance sections explain how you can save money toward your tuition costs.  Our Scrip Program saves parents thousands of dollars each year on tuition costs.  By using our Scrip Program, it not only saves you money towards tuition but it also funds the Scholarships that are awarded to parents using the Scrip program.   It is also one of the requirements to apply for and receive Tuition Assistance.

RaiseRight Program

BBCS’s Raise Right is a special gift card program to help offset tuition costs. It is available to you, your friends and family to help save rebates towards your future or current BBCS tuition at no cost to you or them.

Before grocery shopping, fill your vehicle with gas, eat out, buy clothing, purchase gifts for birthdays, weddings, showers, graduation or anniversaries, make hotel or motel reservations or rent a car, come to the school office and buy Scrip gift cards for those places you intend purchasing any of these items. A set percentage by each retailer is given for each card purchased. 90% of that amount is accumulated for each family and applied to your tuition balance for the year or deposited in a fund for future tuition. Ten percent is deposited into a school fund for scholarships (only available to those families that use the Scrip program).

There are over 900 gas stations, grocery stores, clothing and gift stores, restaurants, airlines companies, coffee shops, Visa, Mastercard and Amazon cards to choose from. Some of the local retailers that participate in our Scrip program are Walmart, Family Fare, Speedway, Holiday, Marathon, Shell, Walgreen’s Hallmark, Duncan City, Mulligans, Little Caesars, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Subway, Rivertown Do It Center, Creation Station and many more. Some of the more common places like Home Depot, Lowes, Meijer’s, Gordon Foods and many more. These cards can be used ANYWHERE you can find one of the establishments.

A more convenient way to use the program is to download it on your smart phone at www.shopwithscrip.com to avoid having to come to the school to purchase cards every time you shop. Step by step instructions for this feature can be made available to you by contacting the school office for details and more information.

Start using Raise Right now, before school starts, before your child is in school, before your child is born! You can save as much as you want, but it can only be used for BBCS tuition costs.

SCHOLARSHIPS

The Scholarship Fund is funded by the 10% the school earns from the Scrip program. These funds are only available to those parents that use the Scrip program. Scholarships are offered once a year in May for the following year’s tuition. The amount of the scholarships depends on the balance of the 10% earned from Scrip participants and the number of participants applying.

Kitty’s Kid’s

Anyone purchasing Scrip without a designated family directs their rebates to this fund set up by the principal. This opportunity is open to all families at BBCS consisting of $100 drawings at the before school Ice Cream Social, Thanksgiving turkey drawing and on April 30 for early registration.