Scholarships
High Meadow awards scholarships for students who meet specific criteria. These scholarships include the Hope for the Future Scholarship, one-time hardship scholarships, and one-time scholarships to meet critical areas of need for the school, depending on enrollment goals:
Hardship scholarships provide a one-time award to families facing extenuating circumstances, even if they do not typically qualify for need-based financial aid. This ensures support for those in challenging situations. Families who are interested in receiving a hardship scholarship need to complete a financial aid grant application by January 20, 2025. In sections 7 and 12, applicants can include circumstances that may decrease their income from the previous year or share extenuating factors affecting their ability to pay full tuition. This information will be used by the financial assistance committee to judge whether a hardship scholarship would be warranted.
Hope for the Future scholarships are offered in partnership with the Helen’s Hope Foundation, which generously provided seed money to begin a scholarship program for prospective BIPOC students needing financial assistance to attend the school. Each year, the scholarship fund awards $5,000 to three students in 4-8th grade whose family income is classified into the highest or high need criteria brackets. These scholarships follow each student through the rest of their years at HMS, providing $5,000 on an annual basis until the recipient matriculates. Helen’s Hope scholarships are awarded in addition to a family’s financial aid grant. Because students receive these scholarships across multiple years, the availability of the grants fluctuates depending on graduation dates. When a scholarship becomes available, the school will initiate a grant cycle and share this publicly with the HMS community and the greater public. Applications will be available to current and prospective HMS students, and the Helen’s Hope grant committee will come together to evaluate candidates and grant awards.
Targeted Admissions scholarships provide a one-time award of $1,500 to new students who fill the most critical enrollment growth area deemed by the HMS admissions department annually to increase the number of students in a specific class or grade level that is under-enrolled. The admissions department determines the most critical area of enrollment growth directly after the re-enrollment period concludes for a given school year. This scholarship will be publicized to the school community and the public once it is determined.