In the light of the school’s commitment to its ideals and principles, the school makes Jesuit education available to the financially challenged but deserving students, to its employees’ children, to families, who have shown loyalty and patronage to the school, and to its students who have striven to live up to the spirit of Magis in their studies, by awarding them scholarship grants or discounts in tuition fees. Such privilege, however, is determined by the availability of funds and is regulated by the school’s scholarship policies. All grantees can only avail one scholarship offered by the school.
A. Entrance Scholarship
This is open to all incoming Junior High School freshmen who are Valedictorians of select recognized private and public schools who pass the entrance examinations. The grantees will be exempted from paying the tuition fee only on their first year in ADI-SMCS, but they will pay the miscellaneous fees.
B. Ignatian Scholarship
The school is privileged to have individual and organizational partners who provide scholarship grants to fund full or partial annual tuition fees. This scholarship is awarded on an annual basis and the grantee must apply before the end of the school year for the scholarship to be renewed. The grantee must submit an application letter, latest income tax return (ITR) of their parents or a certification of unemployment/ indigence upon application. This is open to any financially challenged but deserving high school student. The school reserves the right to deny, increase or decrease the scholarship grant based on the availability of funds and the status of the applicant. As return service, the grantees shall present at least once certificate of participation/attendance from any service-oriented activity (e.g. outreach, tutorial, etc.) that they have joined within each trimester. At the end of the school year, each scholar must meet the following grade requirements to be eligible for the Ignatian Scholarship Grant the next school:
a. No grade lower than C+ in any grading period.
b. A general average of B- or better at the end of the school year.
c. No Conduct and Effort grade lower than C+ in any grading period.
C. Academic Scholarship
This scholarship is granted as incentive to all ADI-SMCS students who garnered the highest final average in their respective grade levels in the previous school year. These students will be given a special discount of 10% on tuition fees upon enrolment the following school year.
D. Family Discount
Parents who send three (3) or more of their children to ADI-SMCS may apply for a family discount during enrolment. The third child can avail of a 10% discount, the fourth child, 12% discount, and succeeding children can each receive 15% discount each on tuition fees.
E. Faculty and Staff Discount
All children of permanent full time faculty and staff enrolled at ADI-SMCS enjoy 100% tuition discount for the first and second children; 75% for the third
child; and 50% for the fourth child, as long as they do not have any failing final grade in any subject at the end of the previous school year.
F. Jaime V. Ongpin (JVO) Scholarship Grant
1. JVO scholarship starts in Grade 7 and continues throughout Grade 12. JVO scholars will go through a process of screening and evaluation every school
year.
2. Scholar-Applicant shall
a. have good moral character and come from marginal poor families whose family income is not more than Php 400,000.00 per annum.
b. show a keen desire to have a high school education in Ateneo de Iloilo-Santa Maria Catholic School
c. have taken and passed the qualifying entrance exam and interview for high school.
d. have a Deportment grade not lower than C+ (80-84) and must not be involved in any disciplinary case warranting suspension.
e. have leadership qualities and involved in at least one extracurricular activity.
f. shall render 50 hours return service for the entire school year, and 14 days during summer.
g. be subject to approval of JVO Manila.
3. The Guidance and Counseling Office will regularly monitor the academic and behavioral status of the scholars to ensure that no JVO scholar will have to repeat a school year or lose the JVO scholarship.
All scholarship grants, incentives, and discounts need the approval of the President upon the recommendation of the scholarship committee. All applications and supporting documents must be submitted to the scholarship committee for evaluation and processing.