Non-Resident Student Information

After a two-year moratorium on the policy, Broadalbin-Perth started accepting applications in 2019 from non-resident families interested in enrolling their children in B-P schools, 

In 2019, Superintendent of Schools Stephen Tomlinson introduced an application that non-resident families must complete. He explained that all applications are subject to his approval in accordance with guidelines from the New York State Education Department, as well as existing district resources.

“If admitting the non-resident student would require us to hire additional personnel or expend district resources on programs or services that we don’t already provide for our resident students, I won’t be approving the non-resident student’s application,” Tomlinson said.

Tomlinson added that application approvals will be for one school year only; families of non-resident students will have to submit an application every year they want their child to be enrolled in Broadalbin-Perth schools. Non-resident student applicants must be in good academic and disciplinary standing at their current school, and families are responsible for transportation to and from B-P schools.

Tomlinson also said that, depending on current class sizes and other factors, a family’s application for one child might be approved while a sibling’s application is denied.

“We might be at the low end of our class size range in third grade, for example, but be maxed out in fifth grade,” Tomlinson explained. “In that scenario, accepting an additional fifth-grade student would require us to hire additional personnel, so that student’s application would be rejected.”

Tomlinson said the district requires a minimum of two weeks to review non-resident student applications before notifying families of decisions. If a student’s application is approved, the family must pay a minimum of 50% of the annual tuition cost up-front before going through the district’s regular registration process.

Tuition for newly enrolled non-resident students is $7,000 for the school year; tuition for returning non-resident students is $4,410. Note, a student previously enrolled in B-P schools as a resident who moves out of district and applies to enroll as a non-resident student will be considered a newly enrolled non-resident student subject to the $7,000 tuition rate in the student's first year living outside the district.