Admissions
Your Next Steps
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Step 1: Express Interest
Fill out an inquiry form through our online portal. Our admissions counselor, Ms. Laura Lindmeier, will contact you to answer your questions. You can also schedule a tour or shadow a Martin Saints student for a day.
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Step 2: Visit Our School
Martin Saints hosts Open Houses and Visitation Days throughout the school year. Please come, learn more about our school and admissions process, and meet our team!
Links to each admissions event can be found below.
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Step 3: Apply to Enroll
Our online application portal includes a parent questionnaire, student questionnaire, an essay, and transcript release form. Once your application is complete, we will contact you to schedule an interview with the Headmaster.
The Cost of a Classical Education
Martin Saints Classical High School is committed to offering an excellent, affordable education and formation. The actual cost to educate each student exceeds the tuition charged, and we ask each family to help with our fundraising efforts to keep tuition low.
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Tuition:
One Child: $13,000
Two Children: $25,000
Three Children: $37,000
Four Children: $49,000Fees:
Book Fee/Deposit: $500
Application Fee: $100
For applications received by December 15, the application fee will be applied as payment toward tuition. For applications received by March 15, 50% of the application fee will be applied as payment toward tuition. -
Martin Saints Classical High School offers financial aid to families to help support parents in the pursuit of a Catholic classical education for their children. MSC is committed to an excellent, affordable education and formation.
Martin Saints Classical High School has partnered with a reputable third-party financial aid management company to ensure fair and safe processing of financial aid application. Please contact the school to obtain information about applying for financial aid. The deadline for the financial aid application is May 1st.
Some financial aid at Martin Saints comes in the form of scholarships named for and commemorating particular benefactors. For example, the Mary Simonis Rush scholarship honors a very special lady whose life exemplified many Martin Saints values. If you complete the regular financial aid application process, and are eligible for one of these scholarships, we will contact you and let you know.
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Martin Saints Classical HIgh School admits students of any race, color, religion, creed, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
Your Road to Martin Saints
Hopefully, your commute to Martin Saints is straightforward. But sometimes, we need to get more creative, and we’re eager to help. We encourage families to contact us to brainstorm transportation options. Sometimes there are easy train rides, buses, or shuttle services. Other times, we might be able to introduce you to families who live nearby and could be carpool partners. For example, here’s a map of where current MSC students live; is there anyone near you?
Here are a few examples of how we can get creative and make a Martin Saints education possible:
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This student lives along the mainline, in Ardmore, which is in the Lower Merion school district. Because the Lower Merion district boundaries are less than ten miles from Martin Saints, this student can take a district bus to Martin Saints each morning, and uses the same bus to get home after school as well. There are several Martin Saints students on the bus with him, as well as a student from a parochial grade school.
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This student lives in Glenside. His parents drive him to the Jenkintown train station each morning, which is less than 10 minutes from their house. He rides the train from Jenkintown to North Wales. He meets several other Martin Saints students on the same train. When they arrive in North Wales, the Martin Saints shuttle is waiting every morning. He takes the same route home at the end of the day.
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This student lives in Northeast Philadelphia. Every morning, her mom drives her to another student's house in Willow Grove. From there, she carpools with this family. On her way home, she carpools with a different family, who live in Huntingdon Valley. Her mom picks her up from their house in the afternoons.
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This student lives in Overbrook. Her parents drive her to the Plymouth Meeting Mall every morning, where one of our school shuttles meets her and takes her to Martin Saints. In the afternoon, she takes a SEPTA bus back to the Plymouth Meeting mall, where her parents meet her to take her back home.
Where do you see yourself?
Please contact our staff at Martin Saints who would be very happy to review options with you.
Transportation Ideas
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Free public school busing is available for any students who lives within these school districts:
Central Bucks
Colonial
Hatboro-Horsham
Lower Merion
Methacton
Norristown
North Penn
Perkiomen Valley
Radnor
Springfield
Springford
Tredyffrin
Upper Dublin
Upper Merion
Wissahickon
Don’t see your district listed? To find out if your district is eligible, we need to know your district boundaries. Most of the time, those boundaries are indicated by a map on your district’s website. To be eligible for bussing, the edge of the boundary must be ten miles or less from Martin Saints. In other words, when measuring the ten miles, you don't measure from your home address, but from the district perimeter. If you have any questions about how this works, please contact us. We will be glad to help think and plan together.
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North Wales train station
Students can ride the train to the North Wales station on the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown line. Martin Saints provides a shuttle service which picks up students at the station every morning. In the afternoon, we have two shuttles to the North Wales train station. The first shuttle option is right after dismissal, and the second shuttle is at 5:15pm, allowing students to stay for extracurricular activities, including most clubs and athletics.
Plymouth Meeting mall
In the morning, we also have a shuttle going from the Plymouth Meeting mall to Martin Saints. In the afternoon, these students walk to the corner of Scenic Road and Germantown Pike. There is a SEPTA bus that picks them up and takes them down Germantown Pike, back to Plymouth Meeting mall, where they are able to meet rides or another SEPTA bus.
A new shuttle near you?
We are interested in creating new shuttles, depending on need. Sometimes it just takes two or three families to make a shuttle economically viable, so please, do not hesitate to contact us and let us help brainstorm transportation options. There may be other families near you who are asking the same questions.
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Our students are eligible for a SEPTA pass which gives them access to all SEPTA train and bus lines, including regional rail and the Norristown high speed line. The details - including what’s covered by the pass - may vary depending on where the student lives. For students who live within the Philadelphia city limits, any SEPTA vehicle is free using the SEPTA pass.
Students in the suburbs pay for a discounted weekly pass. Whether they ride once or ten times a week, they pay a flat rate of $19.40/week. If they do not use the pass in a particular week, then they do not pay anything (i.e., they do not lose money if they do not use the pass that week).