A letter from Valley Catholic School President John Matcovich

As we begin our second academic semester, school leaders are already planning for the 2025-26 academic year. The application deadline has passed, and each school is screening potential new students and making admissions decisions. Re-enrollment contracts went out recently to returning families. We are hard at work in filling our classrooms for next year.

The 2025-26 budget process is also underway. School principals, our finance office and the VCS Board of Directors are working collaboratively to ensure financial resources are in place to fully fund school operations. Our key focus has been increasing staff salaries. During the past few years, COVID, high inflation and recent contract negotiations in local public school districts have combined to push teacher salaries higher. Valley Catholic is committed to keeping our salaries competitive. Last fall we engaged an outside compensation consultant to gather data on local public and private school compensation, and next year our teachers and support staff will realize an increase in their pay. The pay increase will be funded by strategic cost cutting, making slight increases in enrollment and class size where appropriate, and through a 6.6% tuition increase. This reallocation will focus our financial resources on the people who make the greatest difference on VC students: our hard-working teachers and staff.