ECHS Membership

The costs of education at a private school are significant. Parents are requested to become members five years prior to having children attend ECHS. Pre-support spreads out the cost of ECHS tuition over five additional years to make fees approximately 25% lower when children are attending ECHS. The pre-support payments start for families planning to attend ECHS when the eldest child enters grade 4. Parents can also choose to sign an agreement with the school and pay a lump sum when their oldest starts grade 9.

As believers, we are witnesses of the sign and seal of baptism to the covenant children in our church. To help parents raise their children in the fear of the Lord, we support Christian education and share the financial responsibility of our private schools.

As everyone is in a different stage of life, the school society has six different levels of financial involvement. Care is taken to reduce total fees for members who are also members in a related elementary school. Aside from fees directly related to per-student tuition these fees are considered to be eligible charitable tax contributions. The listed fees in each category may be considered to be a minimum, we can accept any regular or extra contribution in addition to category amounts.

Category 1: Single and retired members
Category 2: Member families with no children in ECHS. This category is requested for families with children in grade 5-8 as part of pre-support.
Category 3: Member families with children in in both elementary and high school
Category 4: Member families with children in high-school only
Category 5: Non-member families with children in high-school
Category 6: Member families with children who completed high-school.

ECHS membership is designed to be per family rather than per student. This system was chosen to avoid excluding larger families where per-student tuition costs would become prohibitive. It also encourages the community of believers to support each other with their financial gifts.

In order to preserve the Biblical foundation of the school, ECHS membership is restricted to members in the Canadian Reformed Church and United Reformed Church denominations. Non-members may enroll their children provided that they are in complete agreement with the purpose and basis of education at ECHS. In order to evaluate the request and assure themselves of this, the board of directors follows the procedure in the ‘Conditions of Admittance of Non-Member Children’. In order to start this process, please request enrollment in writing. Enrollment through these conditions does not offer voting membership.

While we encourage all members of the supporting Reformed churches to join the membership, donations towards the school help to make Reformed education possible for all youth of the church. You can use the donation button to make a one-time donation or sign up for preauthorized monthly donations.

You can eTransfer your fees to bookkeeper@echs.ca, and please add your name and mailing address in the notes field so we can send you a tax receipt.