Bartholomew Consolidated Schools K-1 Grade Early Enrollment Bartholomew Consolidated Elementary Schools have made enrollment available online for students K through 12. If you would like to find out more about BCSC Pre-K, please follow this link. Please click on one of the links below to start the registration process. You will be asked to create an account with a valid email address. Your child’s enrollment will not be complete once this form is submitted. Please see guidelines below and arrange to take the documents listed to the school your child will attend to complete the enrollment process. Please note the following guidelines: *Early K & Early 1st applications for the current school year are closed and applications for the 2025-2026 School Year will be available in February 2025
All volunteers at BCSC must obtain a criminal history check. This includes volunteers in the classroom and for field trip chaperones. Forms are available in the office at no cost to the volunteer as well as on the website . If you think you may want to accompany your child’s class on a field trip or volunteer on a regular basis please fill out a form and return it to your facilitator or the main office. They will be good for the entire school year and must be renewed yearly. Criminal History Form
| A. | providing the teacher with vital information from parents that will strengthen the plans and strategies the teacher uses with a student |
| B. | helping parents understand more clearly what the school and the teacher are trying to accomplish with a student, what is required for students to accomplish such results, and what the parent can do to facilitate the process |
| C. | building a strong home-school partnership that has implications for support of school programs beyond particular classroom or grade |
Physical Education Waiver This program is available to only those students who are attending high school. Please contact your high school PE/Health Department if you need further assistance or if you need additional information. East High School PE/Health Department gaddisb@bcsc.k12.in.us North High School PE/Health Department hesterje@bcsc.k12.in.us CSA New Tech PE/Health Department morrillj@bcsc.k12.in.us Please read through
"To the Parents of Prospective PE Waiver Students" first.
The Twenty-first Century Scholars Program offers low-income students in the 6 th , 7 th , and 8 th grades full-ride collegiate scholarships. The application to the program is online only. To apply, please access the link below.
For more information click link below.i-Grad is a unique program embedded in Bartholomew County schools with the bold goal of achieving a high school graduation rate of 100%. iGrad serves all students with academic barriers in grades 8 through 12 to utilize a unique team approach to assisting our students. Link to iGrad
Welcome to Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation (BCSC)! We are excited to welcome all children to our community. Together we learn! Please review the information below for detailed information on our online enrollment process, our enrollment center, language support, and necessary enrollment documents to get started. The BCSC Enrollment Center website contains all of the helpful information and enrollment links you will need to begin your learning journey in BCSC. BCSC Enrollment Center Website
Enrollment in Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation can be completed online or in-person at the BCSC Enrollment Center located at 2401 Beam Road, Columbus, Indiana, 47203. In order to enroll, you will need an email address and will need to gather required documents. Review our enrollment website to learn how to complete the online enrollment form, how to get support from our friendly enrollment center staff, information on what required documents you will need in order to enroll, language support options, and information about in-district and out-of-district transfers. Family engagement interpreters are available at the BCSC Enrollment Center to provide language support if needed and answer any questions you may have about your student's education in BCSC. If you would like to find out more about BCSC Pre-K, please follow this link. Have questions about enrollment or schools? Contact or visit the BCSC Enrollment Center: BCSC Enrollment Center
2401 Beam Road, Columbus, IN 47203
Hours: 8 AM to 4 PM, Monday through Friday
Email: enrollment@bcsc.k12.in.us
Phone: 812-376-4463 or 812-376-4492
Columbus Virtual Pathway (CVP) The Columbus Virtual Pathway is facilitated by a BCSC teacher using the Edmentum platform in an adaptive, self-paced, and customized learning environment. Students enrolled in CVP engage in video instruction and online learning activities that support mastery of Indiana state standards. CVP is an appropriate option for self-motivated students who will not be returning to a BCSC school this year. Click here for more information about enrolling in CVP. Columbus Virtual Pathway (CVP) Columbus Virtual Pathway es facilitado por un profesor de BCSC utilizando la plataforma Edgenuity en un entorno de aprendizaje adaptativo, autoguiado y personalizado. Los estudiantes inscritos en el CVP participan en actividades de instrucción en video y aprendizaje en línea que apoyan el dominio de los estándares estatales de Indiana. El CVP es una opción apropiada para los estudiantes automotivados que no regresarán a una escuela BCSC este año. CVP - Formulario de inscripción aquí --Un formulario por estudiante
BCSC Elementary Student Transfer (within BCSC) BCSC Elementary Student Transfer Form (outside of BCSC) A legal transfer must be completed if a child is enrolled in a BCSC school by a placing agency or the courts and child’s parent/legal guardian resides outside of the district.
A parent/legal guardian whose residency is outside the Bartholomew Consolidated School district may apply for a transfer if they want their child to attend a BCSC school.
A student must reapply for transfer enrollment prior to transitioning into middle and high school. This means a student will have to reapply in their 6th and 8th grade school years.
Approval of a transfer is based on space available in the receiving school and the student's standing in their home corporation.
Questions regarding residency and legal transfers should be directed to 376-4280.
Out of district transfers call 812-376-4392.
BCSC Student Transfer (within BCSC) BCSC Student Transfer Form (outside of BCSC) Out of District Student Transfer Information and Form
A legal transfer must be completed if a child is enrolled in a BCSC school by a placing agency or the courts and child’s parent/legal guardian resides outside of the district.
A parent/legal guardian whose residency is outside the Bartholomew Consolidated School district may apply for a transfer if they want their child to attend a BCSC school.
A student must reapply for transfer enrollment prior to transitioning into middle and high school. This means a student will have to reapply in their 6th and 8th grade school years.
Approval of a transfer is based on space available in the receiving school and the student's standing in their home corporation.
Questions regarding residency and legal transfers should be directed to 376-4280.
Out of district transfers call 812-375-1762.
If you are homeless, you may qualify for certain rights and protections under the federal McKinney-Vento Act. Please find more information here.
General Policy Statement - policy 5517 It is the policy of the Board of School Trustees to maintain an education and work environment that is free from all forms of unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment, occurring in the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and/or activities, or, if initially occurring off Corporation grounds or outside the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and activities, affecting the Corporation environment (hereinafter referred to collectively as "unlawful harassment"). This commitment applies to all Corporation operations, educational opportunities, programs, and activities. All students, administrators, teachers, staff, and all other school personnel share responsibility for avoiding, discouraging, and reporting any form of unlawful harassment occurring in the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and/or activities, or, if initially occurring off Corporation grounds or outside the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and activities, affecting the Corporation environment. This policy applies to unlawful conduct occurring on school property, or at another location if such conduct affects the Corporation environment. The Board will vigorously enforce its prohibition against unlawful harassment, that is based on race, color, national origin, sex (including transgender status, sexual orientation and/or gender identity), religion, disability, military status, ancestry, or genetic information, which are classes protected by Federal and/or State civil rights laws (hereinafter referred to as "Protected Classes"), and encourages those within the Corporation community as well as third parties who feel aggrieved to seek assistance to rectify such problems occurring in the Corporation’s educational opportunities, programs and/or activities, or, if initially occurring off Corporation grounds or outside the Corporation’s educational opportunities, programs and activities, affecting the Corporation environment.
Sexual Harassment
Pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, "sexual harassment" is defined as: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when: A. Submission to such conduct is made either implicitly or explicitly a term or condition of an individual's status in a class, educational program, or activity.
B. Submission or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for educational decisions affecting such individual.
C. Such conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity.
Sexual harassment may involve the behavior of a person of either gender against a person of the same or opposite gender. Prohibited acts that constitute sexual harassment may take a variety of forms. Examples of the kinds of conduct that may constitute sexual harassment include, but are not limited to:
A. unwelcome sexual propositions, invitations, solicitations, and flirtations;
B. sexual violence, including physical and/or sexual assault;
C. threats or insinuations that a person's academic grade, promotion, classroom work or assignments, academic status, participation in athletics or extra-curricular programs or events, or other conditions of education may be adversely affected by not submitting to sexual advances;
D. unwelcome verbal expressions of a sexual nature, including graphic sexual commentaries about a person's body, dress, appearance, or sexual activities; the unwelcome use of sexually degrading language, jokes or innuendoes; unwelcome suggestive or insulting sounds or whistles; obscene telephone calls;
E. sexually suggestive objects, pictures, videotapes, audio recordings or literature, placed in the educational environment, which may embarrass or offend individuals;
F. unwelcome and inappropriate touching, patting, or pinching; obscene gestures;
G. a pattern of conduct, which can be subtle in nature, that has sexual overtones and is intended to create or has the effect of creating discomfort and/or humiliation to another;
H. remarks speculating about a person's sexual activities or sexual history, or remarks about one's own sexual activities or sexual history;
I. inappropriate boundary invasions by a Corporation employee or other adult member of the Corporation community into a student's personal space and personal life;
J. verbal, nonverbal or physical aggression, intimidation, or hostility based on sex or sex-stereotyping that does not involve conduct of a sexual nature;
K. in the context of employees, consensual sexual relationships where such relationship leads to favoritism of a subordinate employee with whom the superior is sexually involved and where such favoritism adversely affects other employees or otherwise creates a hostile work environment.
Not all behavior with sexual connotations constitutes unlawful sexual harassment. Sex-based or gender-based conduct must be sufficiently severe, pervasive, and persistent such that it adversely affects, limits, or denies an individual's employment or education or creates a hostile or abusive employment or educational environment. NOTE: Sexual conduct/relationships with students by a Corporation employee or any other adult member of the School Corporation community is prohibited, and any teacher, administrator, coach, other school authority, or staff member who engages in certain sexual conduct with a student may be disciplined up to and including termination and also may be guilty of the criminal charge of "sexual battery" as set forth in I.C. 35-42-4-8. In the case of a child under fourteen (14) years of age, the person also may be guilty of "child molesting" under I.C. 35-42-4-3. In the case of a child between the ages of fourteen (14) and sixteen (16), the person also may be guilty of "sexual misconduct with a minor" under I.C. 35-42-4-9. The issue of consent is irrelevant in regard to the latter two (2) criminal charges. Any employee accused of sexual relations with a student may be placed on leave until school administrative proceedings are completed. Proven sexual relationships with a student regardless of the age of the student will initiate the termination process for the employee.
National Origin Harassment
Prohibited national origin harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's national origin and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may include but is not limited to conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's national origin, such as negative comments regarding customs, manner of speaking, language, surnames, or ethnic slurs.
Race/Color Harassment
Prohibited racial harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's race or color and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may include but is not limited to conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's race or color, such as racial slurs, nicknames implying stereotypes, epithets, and/or negative references relative to racial customs.
Religious (Creed) Harassment
Prohibited religious harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's religion or creed and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may include but is not limited to conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's religious tradition, clothing, or surnames, and/or involving religious slurs.
Disability Harassment
Prohibited disability harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's disability and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may include but is not limited to conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's disabling condition, such as negative comments about speech patterns, movement, physical impairments or defects/appearances, or the like.
The Corporation also will take immediate steps to impose disciplinary action on individuals engaging in any of the following prohibited acts:
A. Retaliating against a person who has made a report or filed a complaint alleging unlawful harassment (see definition on page 1) or who has participated as a witness in a harassment investigation.
B. Filing a malicious or knowingly false report or complaint of unlawful harassment (see definition on page 1).
C. Disregarding, failing to investigate adequately, or delaying investigation of allegations of unlawful harassment (see definition on page 1), when responsibility for reporting and/or investigating unlawful harassment charges comprises part of one's supervisory duties.