2025-26 SCHOOL RE-ENROLLMENT

Complete the Re-Enrollment Form (if you have a new student enrolling you'll need to complete the New Student Enrollment Form)

Complete the Enrollment Reservation Payment ($50 per student through March, $100 per student as of April 1st)

If applying for Financial Aid, complete application before May 1st

Attend a Family Orientation Night in July (dates and details to come) and complete all necessary financial paperwork

Once you've completed the steps above, you're all set for next school year!

MAIN SCHOOL CALENDAR

Our 2024-25 school year is in session from mid-August to mid-May. On school days, doors open at 8:15am with an 8:25am start time. School dismissal is 3pm. Half-days are typically 8:25am-12pm.

To import to your own personal calendar, click on the Google Calendar button on the bottom right.

*The School Year Calendar is used as a guide for our 2024-25 school year. Please note it is subject to change; please use the Google live calendar above for all of the latest updates.

ATHLETIC AND ACTIVITY CALENDAR

The calendar below includes all of our athletic and extracurricular activities. If you would like to view a specific sport schedule, click the buttons below, where you can also import to your own personal calendar by clicking on the Google Calendar button on the bottom right.

REPORT AN ABSENCE

Please report an absence prior to 8:30am anytime your student will be absent for any reason. All absence forms will remain confidential and only be seen by school office staff and the school nurse, as needed.

LL-6th ABSENCE/APPOINTMENT FORM

7th-12th ABSENCE/APPOINTMENT FORM

LUNCH MENU

FORMS

SPORTS MEDICAL ELIGIBILITY Annually for all 4-12th grade athletes playing a team sport

CHILD HEALTH EXAM/PHYSICAL — Little Lions, Kindergarten, 6th, and 9th grades, and new students to Illinois

DENTAL EXAM — Kindergarten, 2nd, 6th, and 9th grades, and new students to Illinois

DRESS CODE (2024-25) — For all K-12 students

EYE EXAM — Kindergarten and new students to Illinois

FIELD TRIP PERMISSION — Annually for all students

FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH APPLICATION — For students who qualify for free or reduced price lunch based on income eligibility

MEDICAL AUTHORIZATION — For students who need to self-administer or have the school nurse administer medication during the school day

RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION — For parents who would like their child exempt from vaccination recommendations because of religious beliefs

SCHOOL DEVICE POLICY — For all 5-12th students

SERVICE HOURS FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES — Click to view instructions for how to enter through your Sycamore account. Annually for 7-12th grades; 7-8th: 10 hours, 9-12th: 20 hours. Annually for all families; 10 hours (not including 7-12th student hours)

COMMITMENT TO CHRISTIAN CHARACTER — Annually for all families; this is a commitment to relating in a God-honoring way with everyone in our school community

SPIRIT WEAR

Spirit Wear is a great way to represent our school at events but also to the community as a whole. Our Store will be open periodically throughout the school year. Information will be sent via email. If you have a creative or specific spirit wear item you’d like to see available, please reach out.

AFTER/BEFORE CARE (ABC)

We offer before and after school care (ABC) for all students, Little Lions through 8th grade. All policies and procedures can be found in the ABC Handbook.

ABC utilizes the Procare app for check in and check out as well as for billing. Fees need to be paid through the Procare app using a bank account or credit/debit card. If necessary, payment may be made by check or money order in the main office. You can download the Procare app on apple and android. Please contact Angela Martinek, Leader of ABC, with any questions.

SYCAMORE EDUCATION

Sycamore is our school management system where you can track your student's progress, grades and discipline records. If you need a Sycamore login, please contact frontoffice@unitydecatur.org. The easiest way to engage with Sycamore is to download the apple or android mobile app.

SCHOOL HANDBOOK

Our new SCHOOL HANDBOOK covers all of our policies and procedures including financial, academic, athletic and general school operations.

DROP OFF/PICK UP

7-12TH STUDENTS

Students should be dropped off and picked up by the high school entrance and exit out the back to Moundford Avenue. Parents may grant permission to have their 7th-12th student walk to pick up a younger LL-6th sibling(s) from their teacher by the K-8th entrance. They should then proceed to take them home or be picked up by high school entrance.

LITTLE LIONS-6TH STUDENTS

Little Lions will be picked up in the front circle drive by the Main Entrance at 2:55pm.

All students may be dropped off and picked up by the K-8th entrance. Parents should enter and exit via Mound Road. Parents may also walk their students into the building in the morning, and walk up to entrance area to pick up in the afternoon. If picking up after school in car line, parents should park off to the side of the lot until they see their student ready to be picked up. Students should only be picked up in car line if they are self-sufficient with getting safely buckled.

Parent/primary guardian must provide written authorization to the school to allow anyone other than parent or primary guardian to pick up their student(s).

PRAYER REQUESTS

We’d love to pray for you.

Do you have a prayer request for yourself, your student, a family member or friend? Are you praying specific prayers over your family? Whatever your prayer request may be, we are listening & ready to pray for you. Click below to submit a prayer request, which you can do by name or anonymously.

“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” James 5:16

REPORT BULLYING

Unity Christian School is committed to an environment of respect and dignity for its students and employees, an environment that is free from all forms of harassment and any other improper communication or action that implies one person is less valued than another (Ephesians 4:29; Proverbs 17:9).

We encourage anyone who has witnessed bullying to report it to a teacher, school leadership or through the form below. For the purposes of our school policy, bullying is defined as:

The repeated intimidation or emotional abuse of others by the infliction of harm to the person (or the person’s property), whether the harm is real or threatened, transmitted verbally, in writing, or electronically, either inside or outside of school.

“We knew we would make great friends here. We were surprised to find out we’d also become family.”

— Unity Parent