Admission Process


STE Curriculum Guide

To enroll at St. Edward Central Catholic High School for the 2025-2026 school year, a current 8th grade student will need complete the following steps:


1.  Incoming Freshman Placement Testing 

Any eighth-grade student  interested in attending St. Edward CCHS for the 2025-2026 school year can register online and take the High School Placement Test (HSPT) for scholarship opportunities and to assist with course placement. Click here to REGISTER. There is a $25 testing/application fee. Click here to PAY FEE.


HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT TEST DATES

  • January 25, 2025

For questions regarding freshman placement testing or transfer student placement testing, please contact the school's Main Office by phone at 847-741-7535 ext. 101 or email at [email protected].


NOW AVAILABLE!  A Merit-based Scholarship Program for incoming freshmen who take the placement test at St. Edward CCHS on December 1, 2024.  One-time scholarship awards range from $2000 – $1500 and are based on a student’s placement test score of 99-95% (1st tier scholarship of $2000) or 94-90% (2nd tier scholarship of $1500). 


2.  Online Registration

Online registration for the 2025-2026 school year for incoming freshmen should be completed prior to the Class of 2029, New Freshmen Course Selection Night on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. If you have not completed the online application or HSPT testing, you may still register your student by


  1.  Creating a new student account, and completing a release of records form and submitting it to your student's school office.  Click here to PRINT RELEASE OF RECORDS FORM.
  2.  Create a new student account and complete the online application. Click here to  COMPLETE APPLICATION.

A $350 non-refundable family registration fee is required to reserve your student’s place on our roster for the 2025-2026 school year.  Pay the registration fee by clicking  PAY FEE.


Parent(s) and /or guardian(s) and the student will meet with a faculty department chair during New Freshmen Course Selection Night on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. During this meeting, you will review course placement for your student based on their academic records and standardized HSPT scores.



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Admission Policies


It has always been the teaching of the Catholic Church that every Catholic child shall have an equal right to be educated in a Catholic school. It has been the expressed policy of the Diocese of Rockford that every qualified child should be entitled to admission to St. Edward without regard to race, national origin, sex, ethnic, or social-economic background.

Students will be admitted whose academic, attendance and behavior records are in good standing. These records may be reviewed with the students' elementary school principal/teacher for incoming freshmen or the previous secondary school for transfer students.


Financial Assistance

St. Edward Central Catholic High School offers need based financial tuition assistance. If your family is planning to send a student to our school, but will require need based assistance to do so, online forms will be available January 1, 2025.
Financial Assistance forms are due no later than April 15th, 2025. Forms received after April 15th will not be considered.

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