Admission Process

Prospective students and parents/guardians are invited for a visit. Students will shadow a current student during morning classes and can join us for lunch afterward. Bring your questions! For more information, please email Nancy Vogt at nvogt@jburroughs.org.

School visits begin September 25, 2025, for current 8th graders and October 6, 2025, for current 6th graders.

CLICK HERE TO SCHEDULE YOUR VISIT

Please submit the student essays and parent/guardian statement of the SAO application a week prior to your scheduled family interview (see below).

Grade 9 applications are due by December 12, 2025. Applications for grade 7 are due by January 13, 2026.

Note: To cover the expense of processing, all applications to Burroughs must be accompanied by a $40 fee. In cases of significant financial need, these fees may be waived. Please ask our office about this opportunity.

We look forward to meeting your child and at least one of their parents/guardians. The family interview is one way we get to learn more about you, and it also provides your family another opportunity to get to know us better.

Interviews are conducted in person by a faculty member Monday through Friday, beginning October 9, 2025, for current 8th graders and October 27, 2025, for current 6th graders. Remember that we need the parent/guardian and student portions of the application a week prior to your interview. Please email Nancy Vogt at nvogt@jburroughs.org to schedule your interview.

Your child must submit one standardized test score — either the SSAT or the ISEE. We do not have a preferred test; both are considered equally.

Register for the SSAT (Secondary School Admission Test) here. Burroughs plans to offer an in-person SSAT on December 13, 2025. To have your scores sent to Burroughs, please fill in school code 4250 when registering. Burroughs requires that the SSAT or ISEE be taken between August 1, 2025, and January 8, 2026. 

Note: The cost of the SSAT is $172 and should be paid directly to SSAT. The At-Home SSAT costs $258. In most cases of significant financial need, these fees may be waived. Please ask our office about this opportunity.

Here are some tips for the SSAT.

Burroughs requires one current teacher recommendation and requests an optional personal recommendation:

1. Teacher Recommendation
Please provide SAO with the email address of the teacher to whom you would like the recommendation link sent. We ask for one teacher recommendation form from any of your child's current teachers. Please ask your child's teacher to use the "Any Teacher" Form. 

2. Personal Recommendation
Since we want to get to know your child as well as we can, we also ask for one personal letter of recommendation. We would like to know how this person knows your child, why this person would recommend your child, and anything else that you think we should know about your child from this person. Please ask someone who is well acquainted with your child's personal qualities to complete the SAO form or email the letter to jshimabukuro@jburroughs.org. 

Through SAO, you will give permission to your child's school to submit a transcript. This transcript should include grades and reports from your child’s current (first quarter through first semester/trimester) and two prior years in school. 

Recommendations and a school transcript are due by January 13, 2026.

Every applicant goes through the regular admission process, regardless of whether the family is applying for tuition aid. We evaluate applicants based solely on their merit and potential. Only after admission decisions are made do we consider tuition assistance. This approach ensures that we enroll the most qualified students, regardless of their financial circumstances. No one should hesitate to apply due to financial circumstances.

Burroughs uses the Clarity Application to determine a family’s level of financial need based on the information that families share in the application. This includes assets, income, expenses, and debts.

Families who have applied for tuition aid and whose children have been accepted will be notified of the amount of tuition aid awarded in the acceptance packet from Burroughs. 

Deadlines for Tuition Aid

• Returning JBS Families*: December 12, 2025
• New 9th Grade Families: December 12, 2025
• New 7th Grade Families: January 13, 2026

*All returning families must reapply for tuition each year as needed.