We seek students from across the region with diverse backgrounds who will benefit from and contribute to our school community. These are students who are committed to learning, who are eager and able to participate in partner, small-group, whole-group, and individual projects, and who are willing to actively engage every day. Our students are receptive to feedback, attentive to their teachers and peers, and willing to try new things. They are willing to work hard to find answers yet able to approach problem-solving in playful ways. While our teachers spend one-on-one time with their students every day, students are expected to work independently and with peers when their teacher is working with other students.

We invite you to come for a tour of our school.  The best way to understand our approach is to experience first-hand the collaboration of teachers and students in our classrooms and across our campus.  In order for you to be able to ask all of your questions and give us an overview of your goals for your child, this tour is designed for adults.  Children are usually introduced to the school during an admission screening, once their parents have decided to submit an application.

 
To make an appointment to visit the school, or to receive a packet of information, please call Jennifer Weeden at 508-839-0038, or e-mail admissions@touchstoneschool.com  Tours are scheduled on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday mornings.

Once you’ve taken a tour, you may submit an application.  A complete application consists of:

Application for Admission form 

Consent to Release Records form 

A non-refundable application fee of $50

For our four- and five-year-olds, we ask that the children have had their applicable birthdays by September 1 of that school year.

For our Older Student Program, which provides a middle-school (7^th and 8^th grade) experience for students ages 12 to 14, we require a two-year commitment and therefore cannot consider children older than 13 seeking a one-year placement.

Once we receive your complete application, we will:

Request records from your child’s current/previous school, if applicable, and will send an evaluation form to your child’s teacher.

Schedule a time for your child to visit our school:

• Children applying for entrance into our 4- or 5-year-old classrooms will meet with teachers and a small group of children.  They will experience a condensed school day, with story time, group time, snack, and clean-up time.
• Older children will spend a full school day here in one of our classrooms.  Our teachers will assess your child’s math, reading, and writing levels as well as his or her ability to participate as a member of the class.

Our Admissions Committee will make a decision about admitting your child based on the following factors:

An assessment of your child based primarily on our observations and secondarily on written records and assessments from other schools he or she has attended.

Our sense of the compatibility of your family’s educational values and goals with the program that we offer.

Suitability of our educational program in relation to your child’s learning and developmental profile.

A balance of boys and girls and a good learning group overall in each classroom.

Touchstone has neither testing nor evaluation services.  Should additional information about your child be required, we must ask you to provide this at your own expense.  We require that you provide any academic or psychological assessments done in the past three years.

If your child is accepted into the school, you will receive a letter of acceptance and an Enrollment Agreement.  The return of the signed Enrollment Agreement, along with the required deposit by the given deadline (usually within about two weeks of your receipt of the agreement), indicates that you have accepted the placement offered.  Enrollment becomes official only after the school has received the signed Enrollment Agreement and deposit.  If we are unable to offer a place to your child at the school, you will be notified by letter.

Touchstone Community School does not discriminate in admission or access to, or participation in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, creed, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship or national or ethnic origin. 

Touchstone Community School does not have support services for children with special needs.