PK4
Pre-K
Two-day, three-day, and five-day preschool options. Full program page coming soon — call us and we will tell you everything now.
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Bangor, Maine · Home of the Patriots
A Christ-centered education in the heart of Bangor.
Pre-K through grade 12. Founded 1970. Accredited by NEASC.
Since 1970
Serving Bangor families for 56 years
PK4–Grade 12
One campus, all the way through
15:1 ratio
Every child is known by name.
75%
Of graduates go on to four-year colleges
35 acres
Four buildings, including our own radio station
NEASC
Accredited by the New England Association
Since 1970
It began with 85 students, three teachers, and a rented building on French Street.
56 years later, the same conviction sits on 35 acres: children taught well and taught faithfully, by teachers who know them by name.
Read our storyOne school, three stages, twelve grades of continuity.
K5 – Grade 5
Elementary
Phonics, penmanship, and wonder. Reading buddies with the juniors, and a teacher who greets your child at the door every morning.
Explore Elementary
Grades 6 – 8
Middle School
The years that decide a lot. Lab science, real writing, first sports teams, and adults who stay close through the awkward stretch.
Explore Middle School
Grades 9 – 12
High School
College-prep coursework, dual enrollment, senior thesis, varsity athletics, and a diploma that opens doors across New England.
Explore High SchoolLife at BCS
What has been happening around here.
Athletics
Girls soccer brings home the gold ball
A defense that gave up four goals all season finished the job in Hampden, and the whole school met the bus at midnight.
Academics
Senior thesis night fills the sanctuary
Every twelfth grader defends a year of work in front of family, faculty, and anyone else who shows up. This year, plenty did.
Community
Kindergarten reading buddies, year eleven
Every Friday, juniors sit on the floor of the K5 classroom with a book. It is the best forty minutes of the week.
Academics
Middle school science fair goes regional
Three seventh-grade projects advanced to the regional fair in Orono, including a water quality study of the Penobscot.
Arts
Spring musical plays to standing room
Forty students on stage and behind it, one borrowed light board, and three nights that sold out before opening.
Alumni
The class of 1985 comes back to campus
Forty-one years later, they still remembered which floorboard in the old gym squeaked. Reunion weekend photos are up.
Find your path
Tell us who you are and we will get out of your way.
New Families
Just starting to look? Here is how admission works, what tuition actually costs, and how to get on campus.
Start hereCurrent Families
Portal, calendar, forms, lunch menu, athletics schedules, and who to call when you need a person.
Go to the family hubAlumni
Generations of Patriots. Register, send a class note, request a transcript, or partner with the Patriot Fund.
ReconnectThis week at BCS
What is coming up.
Calendar
- New Family OrientationCrosspoint Church Auditorium · New families
- First Day of School (PK4–Grade 12)Main Campus · All school
- Back-to-School Night, Grades 6–12Secondary Building · Parents
- Fall Sports Pep RallyPatriot Gymnasium · All school
- Open House & Campus TourFront Office · Prospective families
Patriots athletics
- Girls Soccer vs. Central High SchoolPatriot Field, Bangor
- Boys Soccer at Lee AcademyLee, ME
- Cross Country at Penobscot Valley InvitationalHermon, ME
The Patriot Fund
A legacy worth joining.
Tuition is deliberately kept below the full cost of educating a student here, because we would rather a family say yes than say they cannot afford it. The Patriot Fund is how neighbors, alumni, and grandparents partner with us in the work — teachers, classrooms, athletics, and tuition assistance.
Tuition was never meant to carry it all
Across independent schools, tuition typically covers about 75–85% of the true cost of educating a student (industry benchmark). Gifts close the remainder.
Supporting the school is supporting its teachers
Christian school teachers generally earn meaningfully less than their public school counterparts. They stay for the calling; we would like them to stay for a career.
A family says yes instead of not this year
Tuition assistance keeps the door open for families in a hard season, and keeps a classmate in her seat.