Prospective K-8 Families
Please read all details here before signing up for a tour.
Thank you for your interest in Ben Franklin Academy (BFA)! These tours are specific to kindergarten – eighth grade. For information about BFA’s preschool, please contact Lori Hafner, BFAs Preschool Director.
BFA tours are offered (most) Tuesdays between September 10, 2024 – April 15, 2024. (Dates past October will be added soon!) Tours generally last 45-60 minutes.
Each tour is limited to 20 people (adults and children).
- Please limit the number of people from your family who attend the tour to four.
- Manage your sign-up: After signing up, if you or someone in your group cannot attend, please make room for other families. Email Colleen Bobbin, BFAs Director of Admissions and Records/Registrar, to modify your family’s sign up.
- Participants who cancel less than 24-hours before the scheduled tour or do not show may not sign up for another tour date.
- If spaces are not available in the main parking lot, you’ll find plenty in “upper” lot. Please do not park in reserved spaces or the small lot with basketball hoops.
- Check in with our front office staff no later than 8:50 a.m..
- Kindly leave strollers at home to help us stay on track. The tour moves from floor to floor via stairs.
- Enter the main doors of the school (by the flagpole). The office is immediately to your right.
- Bring a driver’s license. All adult participants will be scanned into our visitor system. Any adult without a license will not be permitted on the tour.
DCSD Snow Day or Delayed Start – Tours will be cancelled if the Douglas County School District (DCSD) has a snow day or a delayed start. (You will not receive a cancellation email.) Closure/delayed start information will be available from the DCSD website, local media outlet websites, and newscasts. Cancelled tours are not rescheduled.
For information about BFA’s enrollment process, please visit BFAs homepage and select New K-8 Enrollment from the Enrollment menu.
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We look forward to meeting you!
Thank you for your interest in Ben Franklin Academy (BFA)! We host tours of the school from September through mid-April for prospective families. Tours are not offered May-August. If you are unable to attend one of the 20+ tours offered this school year, please click on the BFA video to listen to what current and former students, teachers, parents, our Principal, and our Board president have to say about BFA!