Checks and Money Transactions

Parents needing to send checks to school should make the check payable to West Salem Elementary School. The one exception is writing checks for school lunches – these checks should be made out to West Salem Cafeteria.

New Check Acceptance Policy

Salem City Schools has contracted with an outside company, Federal Automated Recovery Systems (FARS) effective July 1, 2009, for collecting checks returned for insufficient funds (NSF) on a more efficient basis.

The school division will still gladly accept your checks as payment. Please be advised that when you provide a check for payment, you authorize us to: 1) use information from the check to make a one time electronic fund transfer from your account or 2) to process the payment as a check transaction.

If your check is returned to us as unpaid, you authorize us to collect a fee (currently $35 plus any bank fees) through fund transfer from your acount.

The following infomration is required on all checks made payable to your child's school or the school division:

Full Name
Street Address
Phone Number

Any checks that are currently past due may also be turned over to FARS for collections after July 1, 2009. If there are any questions, please contact the Office of the Director of Business Services at 540-389-0130 or the school office.