The Faith Community Scholarship is an opportunity for any parish or faith community to support an individual family in pursuing Catholic education in Whatcom County. If preliminary tuition for each child is $9,000, families can apply to their faith communities for additional support through this scholarship. The applications open starting February 6, 2026, and families have through March 1, 2026 to complete their application and/or meet with their faith community leader or pastor. To give the pastors time to review the applications, awards will be sent to families in early April. If you need this information sooner and would like to meet with your pastor prior to early April, please set up an appointment through the parish office.
Click on the “Application” below and fill it in as an editable pdf, or open and print it. (A hard copy went home to current families in the Wednesday Envelope on February 4.) Please save a copy to your phone or desktop and email the completed form to theoffice@assumption.school with “Faith Community Scholarship 2026-27” in the subject line. You may also send a hard copy of the form in the Wednesday Envelope or deliver it to the school.
Church of the Assumption- Faith Community Scholarship Letter (in English)
Application- Faith Community Scholarship 2025-26 (in English)
TUITION STRUCTURE FAQ’s:
- Will Scrip contributions go towards our tuition?
Scrip contributions are already included in the tuition calculation. It is income brought in through the PTC and then given as part of the PTC subsidy to all school families.
- There is an early discount for re-enrolling by February 22, 2026, but $550 being due in approximately two weeks is not doable for our family.
The February 22 deadline is to provide enough time for new families to enroll based on space available in a particular class. If there is not space, that family needs to be able to enroll elsewhere. We need an earlier deadline to serve this purpose, but we will offer a disclaimer for a refundable registration fee before June 1st. This is for any family whose decision to withdraw is financial only. For example, if your Faith Community Scholarship is not enough for your family, you may have the option to withdraw without penalty.
- For non-parish families, should we budget for a 4% tuition increase annually?
Typically, there will be a 3-4% increase each year to adjust for inflation, but some years, it may be more than 4% if we are trying to increase teacher salaries or increase our deferred maintenance expenses. Most families should predict and plan for an annual 4% increase.
- For non-parish families, is it safe to assume $9,000 per child is the highest we’ll pay?
Yes. This is the maximum per child in K-8 for the 2026-27 school year. It will not go up or down based on enrollment. It will only be decreased by financial aid or Faith Community Scholarship amounts.
- When we apply for parish subsidy, do we have to disclose our family’s income?
No, Whatcom Catholic family of parishes will not be asking for a family’s income in the application process. If your family is applying for “tuition assistance”, that information will be required.
- In order to get the discount of early registration, we are being asked to register without knowing for sure what we will be paying in tuition?
This is correct. You should assume to pay the full $9,000 per child and register with that number in mind. We also want to reassure you that there will be additional money available through the Faith Community Scholarships. You should discern what you are able to pay, and appeal to the parish with that number.
- Is there an official application form for the Faith Community Scholarship? If so, does it get turned into Assumption School or directly to the parish?
The application form for the Faith Community Scholarship forms are linked above and can be emailed to theoffice@assumption.school or returned in the Wednesday Envelope on or before March 1, 2026.
