Admission Age Requirements
Per state requirements, students applying for Transitional Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and First Grade must meet a minimum age requirement for the year in which they will be accepted:
• Transitional Kindergarten: Student must be FOUR years old by September 1st of the year they are entering.
• Kindergarten: Student must be FIVE years old by September 1st of the year they are entering.
• First Grade: Student must be SIX years old by September 1st of the year they are entering.
Tuition Terms & Conditions
The tuition and fees stipulated in the Tuition & Assistance page above do not fully cover the cost of educating a student at Saint Clare School. In addition to meeting financial obligations, families are responsible for contributing to the life of the community by participating in various activities and events, volunteering services to the school and financially supporting the school’s fundraising and development efforts.
As part of the Saint Clare School financial commitment, each Saint Clare School family is required to complete a minimum of 30 hours of service to the school per school year beginning May 1 and ending April 30. (Single parent families, as approved by administration, are required a minimum of 15 hours of service per school year.)
Hours left unfulfilled by April 30 of each year will be billed via TADS by May 20 at a rate of $40 per hour.
Statement of Non-Discriminatory Policy
Saint Clare School and all schools in the Diocese of San Jose are mindful of their mission to be witnesses to the love of Christ for all, and admit students of any race, color, and nationality and/or ethnic origin of the rights, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the schools.
The Catholic Schools in the Diocese of San Jose do not unlawfully discriminate of the basis of race, color, and national or ethnic origin, age, sex or disability in the admission of students, the administration of educational policies, scholarship, and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. Saint Clare School and all the Catholic schools in the Diocese of San Jose does not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of sex, age, disability, race color and national and/or ethnic origin. (California Catholic Conference, March 1994, revised January 1997)