There is a different code of regulations for private schools than for home educators without a private school umbrella. Even if you are enrolled in a school outside Colorado you are required to keep your test scores on file with a Colorado private or public school.

Since CHESS is a private school you have the following advantages over unaffiliated home educators.

❑ You have a private school confirming your program of study.

❑ You do not have to report your test scores or progress to the school district.

❑ Your school records can be transferred to another school.

❑ You have an umbrella of protection for legal issues.

We receive referrals from public schools and have provided transcripts for students enrolled in the high school program who are transferring to other schools, entering college, and receiving scholarships. No CHESS course credits have been refused by any public school or college.

❑ Record keeping

❑ Help with school district problems

❑ Monthly newsletter

❑15% discount off HSDLA membership

❑ Curriculum advising

❑ Resource center and library

❑ Record keeping tools, grade cards

❑ Student I.D. Cards

❑ §High school diploma program

❑§Enrichment Academy (speech & debate, choir, art, etc.)

❑ §Training Seminars & Conferences

❑ §Personal evaluations and testing

❑ §Diagnostic testing

❑ §Transcript Services

§ These services have additional fees.

There is a $5.00 application fee. The basic annual enrollment fee is $50.00 per family plus $10.00 for each child. No charge for 4th child or more.

CHESS provides testing in April for its students at a base charge of $35.00. CHESS uses the ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills). Other modules of the test are available besides the basic battery.

CHESS also provides the option of personal evaluations in accordance with state standards for $50.00.

CHESS provides parent training seminars in Greeley periodically that help parents teach the academic basics and train their children in spiritual development. Dates of these seminars appear in the monthly newsletter.

CHESS also works in conjunction with Chambers College to offer all day conferences that feature various guest lecturers or focus on a particular area of interest.

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1. Fill out an application form and mail it in to the CHESS office. The application fee is $5.00.

2. If you are accepted into CHESS you will receive an enrollment packet. The packet contains the following:

a. A form on which to record the names, birth dates, immunization records, and curriculum, to be used for children enrolling in CHESS.

b. A Projected calendar of the days and hours that you will be home educating, to be sent back to us.

c. An Actual calendar showing the actual days and hours that you have home educated, satisfying the minimum amount of 172 days with an average of four hours per day. This will be turned in to us at the end of the school year.

d. A form letter to send to your school informing them that you have enrolled your children in a private school, and requesting them to transfer your children's school records to us.

3. After you have completed the above information and enclosed a check for tuition, you are enrolled in CHESS.

4. You are to test children in grades 3,5,7,9, & 11. CHESS provides ITBS testing in spring or professional evaluations, but you may use your own source of standard testing.