Investing in the Future: Understanding Tuition and Financial Aid at Bosque School

Bosque School recognizes that investing in education represents a significant financial commitment for families. The school is dedicated to fostering a socioeconomically diverse student body and strives to make its transformative, whole-child education accessible to qualified students, balancing academic excellence with well-being and personal growth.

Bosque School's Commitment to Financial Aid

The Bosque School Board of Trustees demonstrates its commitment to accessibility by providing financial aid to a substantial portion of its student population. In fact, 64% of Bosque students receive some level of financial support, underscoring the school's dedication to enrolling a diverse community of learners.

Navigating the Financial Aid Application Process

To simplify the financial aid application process, Bosque School utilizes Clarity, a third-party financial aid application program. Clarity offers webinars designed to guide families through the application, highlighting key aspects, materials to gather, and how to get assistance. These sessions also address the tax verification process and provide a platform for parents to ask questions.

Why Give to Bosque School? Understanding the Findlay Society

The true cost of the outstanding education provided by Bosque School is not fully covered by tuition fees, and the school, like most non-profits, also relies upon charitable giving to manifest its mission.

In the fall of 2019, Bosque School created the Findlay Society, named for the school’s founder, Dr. Peggie Ann Findlay. As a Findlay Society member, you demonstrate your belief in Bosque School, its mission, and the promise of every student-current and future. The Findlay Society recognizes our highest supporters who pledge to give $1,994 or more over the course of the fiscal year (July 1- June 30). Donors to the Findlay Society are recognized annually in the entrance to our Schoolhouse. Additionally, Findlay Society members are invited to special events throughout the year including a reception with Dr.

A Holistic Approach to Education: More Than Just Academics

Bosque School distinguishes itself through its student-centered approach to learning. Students are known, seen, heard, and welcomed into a nurturing community. The school's intentionally small classes encourage students to think critically, take intellectual risks, and deeply engage with complex ideas. This approach ensures graduates are well-prepared for college and equipped to lead purposeful and impactful lives.

Bosque School is well-known for our rigorous college preparatory curriculum, but we also know that a meaningful high school experience is about more than grades and test scores.

Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Community

Pandemic or not, we cannot deviate from excellence in teaching, learning, and community. To accomplish this, we will provide our staffulty with consistent, high-quality instructional support and ensure our students receive mission-aligned instruction, responsive technology assistance, and thoughtful social-emotional support (through our new “WILLDS” programming that represents our enhanced curriculum of student Wellness, Identity, Leadership, Life skills, Diversity, and Service). We are also committed to continued progress in manifesting our academic strategic plan, launched in 2019. The pandemic, and the shift to remote teaching and learning, has deepened our understanding of time and content and enhanced our creativity in delivering core skills and meeting learning goals. The skills our teachers are developing are deeply aligned with the design work to come this year as we rethink our graduation requirements, core classes, schedule, and the launch of immersives. If at any point we need to adjust our timeline due to the challenges of the pandemic, we will; but as of now, we are hopeful and excited to work towards the great changes to come in the next academic year.

Creating a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Community

Bosque School is deeply conscious of the ingrained and relentless pandemic of the institutionalized racism, inequality, and white privilege that exists in our country. As a school, we acknowledge the disproportionate struggles of our students, staffulty, and families of color; we pledge our support and sustained commitment to those in our community and beyond who are impacted by racism. Bosque’s core value of community requires a deep commitment to creating an equal and sustained sense of inclusion, belonging, and voice for all of our students and families. We seek to be an ally to the black community and all communities of color. We want to contribute consistently and constructively to creating a more just and equitable society and world. To do this, we must acknowledge and accept the insidious nature of racism, evaluate and update our structures and systems, and ground ourselves in education to ensure the lessons of the past inform equality now and in the future. We will continue to build our staffulty’s skills in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and enhance all of our toolkits to engage in constructive discourse. We assume shared and sustained responsibility and accountability to break the patterns of injustice that exist. We will use our DEI Principles and Best Practices for All Employees as a roadmap for continued commitment and improvements in supporting these goals.

Investing in the Future: Philanthropy and the Bosque Fund

The Office of Development has been renamed to the Office of Philanthropy, which better recognizes the goodwill expressed within our community through the significant donation of time, talent, and treasure from each of you. The Office of Philanthropy works to build and strengthen our entire community in support of the mission of Bosque School. We also rebranded our “Annual Fund” to the “Bosque Fund.” The Bosque Fund will support every student, every program, every day, every year. The focus of this year’s Bosque Fund will be on gifts to the “Area of Greatest Need” which support the increased operational expenses connected to educating during a pandemic. We are also deeply committed to keeping our community intact and meeting the increased financial aid requests from families who have seen their businesses closed, their incomes slashed, and their futures suddenly uncertain. Last spring, we raised an additional $40,000 in support of enhanced financial aid via the Community Commitment Fund, but the needs continue to grow. This year, 64% of Bosque students receive some level of financial support to attend Bosque. Last year our participation levels in the Bosque Fund increased significantly across every constituent group, and the dollars raised greatly enhanced the educational experience of our students. We are committed to continuing to increase participation this year; our goal is to have 100% participation from staffulty, parents, and guardians.

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A Welcoming Community: Admissions at Bosque School

Bosque continues to establish itself as a school of choice in Albuquerque. Our admissions yield increased by over 20% last year, and we had a VERY busy summer admissions season with a 90% conversion rate of applicants! Almost daily, we are being approached by families who are reconsidering their current educational opportunities. We are doing all we can to support this interest with our few remaining spots.

Bosque School's Mission and Values: A Foundation for the Future

Bosque School’s new mission: To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

We also updated our accompanying core values, the tools we will use to manifest our new mission:

Inspiring Academic Excellence: We design learning experiences that inspire students to explore challenging concepts and ideas and to be daring in their pursuit of deep understanding. Our academic program is grounded in inquiry and prizes curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking. Decisions of content and pedagogy reflect the diverse and changing world in which we live and offer a pathway to discovering individual passions and how to live ethically.
Cultivating Community: We strive to be an intentionally diverse community and know that people thrive when their individual voices are heard and valued as part of a caring collective. We foster and tend meaningful relationships and shared responsibility for a vibrant and healthy school culture. And because we believe learning doesn’t end at the campus edge, we proactively engage with the larger community.
Fostering Integrity: We believe that the acquisition of knowledge is incomplete without the simultaneous development of ethical principles and compassion. We expect students to act with integrity, to contribute positively to the Bosque community, and to be courageous and honest learners and leaders. In partnership with families, we guide students to grow from their experiences and develop resilience in the face of challenges.
Learning from Place: We are a community of learners rooted in the ancestral homelands of Puebloan peoples in the Rio Grande bosque. The complex cultural and ecological story of the bosque offers an extraordinary extension of our classrooms and serves as a call to action to care for the environment as a whole.

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