SJCS Enrollment Information
Enrollment Process
Please schedule a tour for our Open House on January 26th, 2025.
Application Process for Preschool and Kindergarten:
Preschool and Kindergarten will be accepting applications for enrollment at Open House along with your $75 enrollment fee. Kindergarteners will be assessed on March 14, 2025 to complete the application process. Results will be reviewed with the enrollment team, and acceptance results will be communicated to the family. If accepted, you will then begin the enrollment process.
Application Process for Grades 1-8:
After your Open House tour, you can fill out the assessment/shadow day form, this will start the application process. The assessment/shadow day will be a day that your child will come to spend the day at St Joseph. They will complete an academic assessment, and spend a day with their classmates.
Please bring the following on your child’s shadow day:
- Most recent report card
- Diagnostic test scores (e.g. MAP, iReady, STAR)
- Ohio State Test scores (Grades 3-8)
- IEP or Educational Plan documentation, if applicable.
A week after your child's assessment date, you will receive communication from the school to let you know whether we will or will not be continuing the application process with your child.
At this time we are not offering assessment/shadow days to current 2nd grade students moving to 3rd. You can request to be put on a waiting list for 3rd grade, and you will be contacted if any changes are made.
Acceptance of students at St Joseph Consolidated School is managed using a four-tiered prioritization system, as well as the students assessment scores:
Tier I - Current St. Joseph Consolidated School students and their siblings
Tier II - New students from St. Aloysius and St. Joseph parishes
Tier III - New students from other Catholic parishes
Tier IV - All other new students
Wait List Policy
We will communicate your waitlist status by August 1, 2025.
Immunization Policy
- All students in grades K-8 must be immunized according to State Board of Health requirements.
- While the State Board of Health does provide a “Waiver for Immunizations” for medical or religious reasons, St. Joseph Consolidated School, as a private school, is not required to accept these waivers. Our policy regarding a waiver for immunizations is for “documented medical conditions” only. Such a condition must be verified (by providing a medical reason why an immunization is not recommended for the child) and documented in writing by a licensed medical practitioner.
- St. Joseph Consolidated School complies with the minimum immunization requirements set forth by R.C. 3313.67 and 3313.671. Although St. Joseph Consolidated School complies with those minimum immunization requirements, it also retains discretion to enforce stricter requirements at any time, for instance, by requiring vaccination even over a guardian’s conscience or religious conviction objection or by revoking a previous exception.”
Age requirement for PK & Kindergarten Enrollment
For enrollment in our preschool program student students must 3 or 4 years old on or before August 1. Students registering for Kindergarten must be 5 years old on or before August 1 and attend a Kindergarten assessment.
SJCS Preschool Information and Application
Uniform Policy
St. Joseph Consolidated School requires uniform attire for ALL students. In order to maintain focus on schoolwork, students must refrain from dressing in any manner which is identified by staff or administration as distracting from the business of school. All students should maintain acceptable standards of cleanliness and personal hygiene to keep from being a distraction and concern to others.
St. Joseph Consolidated School Uniform Guidelines
School Hours
The school day for all students (PK-8) at St. Joseph Consolidated School begins at 7:30 a.m. Dismissal time is 2:15 p.m.
Transportation Information
The following school districts provide bus transportation for our students. Families will be given further information to register for transportation services in the spring.
Ross Transportation 738-2900
Hamilton Transportation 887-5060
Fairfield Transportation 829-6603
Talawanda Transportation 273-3150
Edgewood Transportation 863-4692
New Miami/Settle Services 863-1390
Cafeteria Information
The SJCS cafeteria provides hot lunches daily. These lunches are prepared in- house made daily in our kitchen! Another added bonus of our cafeteria is families can order daily. No ordering weeks ahead! No thinking ahead required! If you're a little low on groceries, your Child can buy their lunch! Lunchroom specialties even bring back our alumni to visit and eat lunch! Lunch is not the only thing students receive in the lunch room at SJCS. Paula, Odis, Donna & Butch serve each lunch with love and gently remind each student to practice their manners! Each Child is served vegetables and fruits with every lunch and a smile from the lunch crew. Stop in and watch sometime, they know each child by name! Just one of the many benefits of going to SJCS! St. Joseph Consolidated School also participates in the National School Lunch Program for those that qualify. Hot lunches, which includes milk, Cost $3.50 and additional milk can be purchased for .50¢. Students may purchase "extras" for $1.50.
Per Archdiocesan Policy- St. Joseph Consolidated School abides by the teachings and rules of the Catholic Church, and Faith is integrated into all aspects of the schools activities. According to the Catholic Faith, a person's sexual identity is is rooted in ones's biological identity as male or female. St. Joseph Consolidated School considers the gender of all students as being consistent with their biological sex, including participation in school athletics and teams, school sponsored dances, dress and uniform policies, the use of changing facilities, showers, locker rooms, sleeping accommodations on trips, titles, names and pronouns, and school records. As an applicant/registrant and/or parent/guardian for admission to St. Joseph Consolidated School, parents need to understand and agree to this policy.
