BFS Application for Admissions & Membership 25-26 SY

BFS Application for Admissions & Membership

For the School Year 2025-2026
Our age range generally follows: students must be between 2 years, 4 months - 4 years. 8 months by September 30, 2024. This means that eligible applicants for the 2025-2026 school year were born after January 1, 2021 and before June 1, 2023. If your child was not born between these dates, they are not eligible to attend BFS during the upcoming school year. $100 is the required appliation fee (this fee is non-refundable and required for consideration).

Pre-K Applicants: (who are not current BFS students): If your child was born in 2021, they are eligible for Pre-K in the 2025-2026 School Year. You must complete this application which provides us information and let's us know of your interest in the school. Do not pay the application fee, the fee is waived for all families applying to Pre-K.

Please note: For Pre-K we do not do a lottery, the application process is completed through the DOE and you will receive notification if your child has been placed in our program or if your child is on the waitlist from the DOE and not BFS.

WE WILL BE HOLDING OUR LOTTERY ON, JANUARY 17 2025. All Private Pay applications received from 1/17 going forward will not be included in our lottery, but added directly to the end of our waitlist. We will send out initial acceptance emails and all waitlist applicants, based on when they submitted their application will be considered for all families who do not accept their offered spot.
Child Full Name*
Date of Birth*
Sex*

GirlBoy
Mailing Address (Not email address)*
Home Phone Number*
PARENT/GUARDIAN INFORMATION

Below, please include information for parents or guardians with either joint, legal or physical custody.
PG1 - Full Name*
PG1 - Cell Phone*
PG1 - Email Address*
PG1 - Work Phone*
PG2 - Full Name
PG2 - Cell Phone
PG2 - Email Address
PG2 - Work Phone
SCHOOL INFORMATION:

Full Day Programs Only.

Jitterbug & Dragonfly: 9am - 3pm

Butterfly, Sunshine & Rainbow: 8:50am - 3:10pm

Pre-K: All applicants born in 2021, turning 4 in 2025
School Day (Please select one of the following options):*

Private PayPre - K
Medical Alerts (Does your child have any serious medical condition(s) that we should be aware of?)*

NoYes
Medical Alerts Details: (if you selected "yes" above, please share with us whatever details you think are important to share at this time.)
Financial Aid

Will your family be applying for financial aid? (Need is ascertained based on review of your family’s financial information submitted via an application to the National Association of Independent Schools’ School and Student Services (SSS) program. If yes, after completing this application you can go to the following link to apply: https://sssandtadsfa.force.com/familyportal/FamilyLogin?startURL=%2Ffamilyportal
Select if you are looking to apply for financial aid:

YesNo
Cooperative Agreement*

I understand that BFS is a parent cooperative preschool requiring a minimum of two-four hours participation each month on average. If I am offer a space for my child and choose to enroll, I will perform my coop obligations willing and to the fullest extent possible.
Connection to BFS

If your child is a current student CURRENT do not pay the fee. If your child is a sibling SIBLING do not pay the application fee. If you are a staff member STAFF do not pay the application fee. The fee is also waived if you are applying to our PRE-K program, do not pay the application fee.
Please select from the options below*

Current StudentSiblingChild of staff memberNone of the aboveOther
APPLICANT SURVEY

Brooklyn Free Space is committed to serving the needs and interests of the families in its diverse surrounding communities. We therefore request some basic information from prospective applicants in order to better fulfill that commitment. If there are questions that you would prefer not to answer, please feel free to skip them. Please note that your responses will remain private.
How did you hear about Brooklyn Free Space? (Select one)*

From a BFS FamilyPark Slope ParentI live in the neighborhoodReturning Family (Alumni Student)Other
Race/Ethnicity (Please identify which of the following categories describes your child's race/ethnic group. Please select all that apply.)*

WhiteBlack or African AmericanHispanic or LatinoAsianNative Hawaiian or other Pacific IslanderNative American or Alaskan NativeMixed RaceOther
Adoption (Was your child adopted?)*

YesNoOther
Fostering (Are you fostering your child or is their adoption still pending?)*

YesNoOther
Family Structure Please identify which of the following categories describes your family structure:*

Single Parent FamilyTwo Parent FamilyGrandparent headed householdOther
Would you describe your family as a:*

Cis Gendered Parent FamilyGay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Parent FamilyGrandparent headed householdOther
To complete your application you are required to pay the $100.00 application fee

DO NOT pay this fee if you are submitting a Pre-K application, are a current family or are applying for a sibling of a current student.

Application Payment Link (Private Pay Only) do not pay for Pre-K, current family or Sibling applicant

*Current Students do not have to pay this fee.

*Sibling applicants do not have to pay this fee.

*Pre-K applicants do not have to pay this fee.
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