Westminster School

Payment Options

Westminster School offers two payment options. Both options require that 10% of the tuition amount is due with the submission of the Enrollment Contract and is nonrefundable. Families have the options below to pay the remaining 90% of tuition and fees due.

Option 1 - Westminster School Direct Payment Plan

*Incidental charges are due as incurred*

All payments are made directly to Westminster School. The enrollment deposit may be paid via the direct debit option available with the submission of the enrollment contract, check or wire transfer. All other payments for tuition, fees and incidental charges must be made via check or wire transfer.

Payments made by check should be mailed to:

Business Office

Westminster School

995 Hopmeadow Street

Simsbury, CT 06070

Wire instructions are available in your Parent Portal or please contact Denise Woodruff at [email protected] for instructions.

Option 2 - SMART Tuition Payment Plan

Westminster School has partnered with Smart Tuition for the current school year. Smart Tuition is not affiliated with Westminster School. The company offers a 9 month payment plan. There is no interest charge; however, a $50 application fee is required.

The 10% nonrefundable enrollment deposit is paid directly to Westminster School via the direct debit option available with the submission of the enrollment contract, check or wire transfer. The remaining 90% of tuition and fees due are divided into nine equal installments, beginning June 15th and ending February 15th. The monthly payments are made directly to Smart Tuition and statements are received directly from Smart Tuition. Incidental charges are due as incurred.

Choosing this option requires you to enroll with Smart Tuition and pay the enrollment deposit directly to Westminster School.

Tuition Insurance

You may opt to purchase the tuition insurance offered by the School. The premium rate is 1.9% of the annual tuition (excluding fees). If you opt NOT to participate in this plan, no refund or cancellation of tuition or fees will be granted for any reason. You will be billed for this premium in July.

Please read the following pamphlet for details and requirements of the Tuition Insurance/Refund Plan.

Health Insurance

Westminster School requires all students be insured under a United States-based health plan that covers injury and illness. International students need to enroll in the United HealthCare Health Plan offered through Westminster School. The cost of the 10-month plan is $1,880.

Dorm Life

Westminster views residential life as an extension of our core value, community. Beginning in the Third Form year when all Third Formers live together and continuing into the Sixth Form year when our oldest, most mature students live among younger students and act as role models who will shape new students’ first experiences of dorm life, Westminster strives to make a student’s transition from home to dorm life seamless.

The majority of Westminster faculty lives in dorms among our students. Focusing on one small corridor, but engaging with the entire dorm, faculty open their lives and apartments to students. Corridor supervisors invite students into their apartments for study breaks, birthday celebrations and extra help sessions. They also strive to make weekends more enjoyable by spontaneously buying pizza and wings or offering candy at 11 p.m. check-in.

Conversely, just as faculty welcome students in, students gain the feeling of home with the presence of faculty children and many faculty dogs. And, since so many teaching faculty are dorm faculty, students often live down the hall or one floor above their history or English or math teacher or even advisor; asking questions and catching up couldn’t be much easier!