Episcopal Insider
Munnerlyn Campus
January 10, 2025
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Important Dates
- February 1, 2025 – Florida School Choice Scholarship application opens for renewal and new applicants. New applicants can apply for the 2025-2026 school year through Step Up for Students.
- April 30, 2025 – Renewal application deadline. Applications received after April 30, 2025 will be processed as new students.
Key Information & New Steps for Scholarship Applicants
Here is some helpful information to be aware of, including a new step that families will need to complete this year:- Application checklist: For a list of documents that may be needed when a family applies, please click here.
- Priority deadline: To ensure renewing students receive priority for the Private School Scholarship and the Unique Abilities Scholarship, families must submit their application by Wednesday, April 30. After this date, all students will be processed as “new students” due to legislative changes for this year.
- New step for families: Once a student is found eligible, the family will be asked to “Accept” or “Decline” the scholarship. Once accepted, the student’s status will be updated to “Awarded.” Please monitor your email for future updates about enrollment.
- Step Up for Students is here to help: In addition to their regular hours, their team will be available to assist families this weekend from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET.
New This Week
Click here to view a list of key dates for next school year.
*Please note one revision: December 19 will now be a Faculty Planning day with no school.
Episcopal College Counseling welcomes sophomores, juniors, and their parents to join us for an informative Admissions Panel on January 30, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the Sikes Theatre. Esteemed admissions colleagues from Florida State University, College of Charleston, Vanderbilt University, and The University of Alabama will offer insights and perspective on the college process and answer general questions.
We hope you will join us for this very important and informative meeting. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to your student’s college counselor.
Parents – Don’t forget to purchase your Eagle Sports Pass before the spring season contests begin!
One purchase includes two passes, which will get you and another person into all home regular season contests.
Parent Book Study’s next meeting is on Thursday, February 27, from 8:30-9:30 am and we will discuss the second half of Chapter 6-Envy: Coping with Hyper-Competition, pages 158-173 from Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-And What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace. It is never too late to come for the first time or come back if you haven’t come for a while.
Join us right after drop off at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 Church St E, 32202 as the doors open at 8:00 am, and we will meet from 8:30-9:30 am. The other dates for the 2nd Semester are Thursday mornings: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10 and 5/1.
Please let Beth Collins Himes P’21, P’25 know if you have questions or want to be added to the email group, [email protected] or 404-918-0949.
Reminders
Students who are not re-enrolled by today, January 31, 2025, will not be guaranteed a space in the 2025-2026 school year.
Click Here to Complete Re-enrollment
Please refer to the email sent on January 16 for specific re-enrollment instructions for your child’s campus and grade level. These emails can be found in your My ESJ Portal. To reserve your child’s space for the 2025-2026 school year, all steps must be completed via the My ESJ Enrollment Portal today, January 31, 2025. Please review the key updates listed below.
If you have any questions concerning re-enrollment, please contact Andrea Rizzi, Director of Enrollment & Upper School Admission, at [email protected]. We look forward to welcoming your family back for the 2025-2026 school year!
Key Updates
- Payment Plans: Grade 6 – Grade 12
- 1 Pay: April
- 2 Pay: April and November
- 10 Pay: April – January
- Financial Obligation Schedule – Contracts that are canceled after the deposit is submitted will have the following financial obligations:
- Upon signing the re-enrollment agreement: 25% of the annual tuition
- April 1 – June 30: 50% of the annual tuition
- After June 30: 100% of the annual tuition
Our Spanish Exchange sister school based in Zaragoza, Spain, Colegio Inglés, will be visiting Episcopal for two weeks starting April 10 and ending April 23, 2025. We were extremely fortunate to establish a relationship with this prestigious school in 2009, and we could not be more pleased with the success of the program. After being welcomed warmly in Zaragoza in 2018 and 2024, and hosting here in Jacksonville in 2019 and 2023, we are excited to continue our Exchange. The program has grown and we now anticipate twenty five 4th year students and two of their teachers this spring. Please take a moment to view our Program Flyer and highlights from our 2023 and 2024 Exchanges to get to know what the Exchange is all about.
We are looking for approximately 25 families to host students from Colegio Inglés in your homes for the 2 week period. The average age is 15-16 years old and all of the students have excellent communication skills in multiple languages, including Spanish and English. The role of an exchange student Host Family is extremely important and can prove to be a tremendously rewarding experience. Likewise, Episcopal Student Hosts must be of sound character and mature enough to be able to handle the responsibility and trust which we will place in them.
The responsibilities of a Host Family include providing:
- An individual bed for the student (they may share a room with a child of the similar age/gender
- Three meals a day (lunch as needed on non ESJ days)
- Transportation to and from Episcopal each day
- TLC whenever needed
The goal is for our host families to regard their exchange students as members of the family, and to give them the positive and memorable experience you would want your child to receive while being hosted abroad. This would include showing them a little of the city and including them in fun, family outings/activities. This is a busy undertaking, and does require some juggling with academics, sports, and after-school-activity schedules. Rest assured, we will work with hosting families and students if there is a schedule issue. Our hosting families often pitch in with carpooling and co hosting group events. I am confident that you will find the overall experience to be extremely rewarding!
If you are interested, please complete the following (printed copies of these can be picked up in WL 5):
- Host Family Application Form & Host Fee ($300 check payable to ESJ)
Application deadline for all materials is January 15, 2025. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or requests for further details by email at [email protected] and direct your student to stop by WL 5.