• Sign up for a virtual info session or open house
• Learn more about our Lower School - Early Childhood program (Young 3's-2nd Grade)
• Learn more about our Lower School - Elementary program (3rd-5th Grade)
• See the Calhoun academic experience in action

Create an online account to begin your application. The application fee is $75.

Once your application has been received, you will be able to schedule your parent conversation and student visit through Ravenna.

3's and 4's Applicants Enrolled in a Preschool Program

• Preschool Release Form
• 3's & 4's Confidential Form

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Applicants

• Preschool Release Form
• K & 1st Confidential Form

2nd-5th Grade Applicants

• Records Release: Submit this form to your child's current school. (Please remind the school that we require the most recent school report.)
• Teacher Recommendation: One recommendation from a current classroom teacher

(Standardized tests are not required for our Lower School admissions process; Calhoun believes such tests are not an accurate assessment of a young child's strengths or potential.)

Visit our financial aid page for more information.  Families applying to kindergarten through 9th grade may apply for financial aid; however, it is unavailable for preschool applicants.

• Sign up for a virtual info session or open house
• See the Calhoun academic experience in action
• Meet some of our students and alums

Create an online account to begin your application. The application fee is $75.

Once your application has been received, you will be able to schedule your student interview through Ravenna.

1. Records Release (PDF): Print and submit this form to your child's current school. 
    
2. Teacher Recommendations: Teacher recommendation forms are confidential and must be sent directly from the applicant's current teacher/school to Calhoun
    
   • Applying to 6th Grade: Please submit a current fifth grade teacher recommendation and previous fourth grade teacher recommendation. Fifth-grade students who have different teachers for English and math should ask both teachers to complete a teacher recommendation form. If the school has a policy that teachers cannot complete recommendation forms, we urge parents to notify the Admission Office of that policy.
      
   • Applying to 7th-8th Grades: Please submit AT LEAST two recommendations; including one from your child's current math teacher, and one from a current English teacher. References should be submitted before the end of the fall term.
      
3. Submit Graded Writing Sample: Applicants must send a copy of a graded essay or creative writing piece with the teacher's comments visible.

4. Please have your child's school submit a copy of their transcript for the last 2 years.

Visit our financial aid page for more information.  Financial aid applications for 2021-22 will be due on December 15, 2020. 

• Sign up for a virtual info session or open house
• See the Calhoun academic experience in action
• Meet some of our students and alums

Create an online account to begin your application. The application fee is $75.

Once your application has been received, you will be able to schedule your student interview through Ravenna.

1. Records Release (PDF): Submit this form to your child's current school. 
    
2. Teacher Recommendations: Teacher recommendation forms are confidential and must be sent directly from the applicant's current teacher/school to Calhoun.
   • Please submit AT LEAST two recommendations; including one from your child's current math teacher, and one from a current English teacher. References should be submitted before the end of the fall term.
      
3. Submit Graded Writing Sample: Applicants must send a copy of a graded essay from English/Language Arts or History/Social Studies class with the teacher's comments visible.
    
4. *Optional for the 2021-22 academic year -- Submit Standardized Testing Results: Calhoun accepts either the ISEE or SSAT test.  Calhoun's ISEE code is 333505.  Our SSAT code is 2014.  

Visit our financial aid page for more information.  Financial aid applications for 2021-22 will be due on December 15, 2020. Unfortunately, we no longer have financial aid available for the 2020-21 school year.