Home Stay Families

Absolutely! For 2024-25, host families will receive $1400 each month for the ten months they are asked to host.

While we hope that you and your student end up wanting to continue living together, both parties are only committed to living with each other for one school year (10 months). You can decide at the end of each school year if you would like to host again and who you would like to host.

We ask each family to commit to a 10 month agreement. Students usually move-in in late August and return home for the summer in late June.

Since the inception of our program, we have enrolled students from Chile, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam. As consistent with international education trends, many of the students seeking full-time education through graduation in the U.S. come from Asia, whereas students who visit us for short-term exchanges tend to come from Europe.

We ask that you can provide the student with their own bedroom and a quiet place to study, daily meals, and transportation to and from school (whether by car or bus). All academic and college advising is handled through our International Program Director, so families need only focus on providing a caring home for the student to be part of!

No problem! We have families in our network who can help with short-term placement. So long as you give us advanced notice, we can often coordinate a short-term placement plan with another host family in our network while you are away.

Since BBHS is a college prep school, we require international students to come in with a higher language proficiency level in order to keep up with the mainstream classes they will be put in. BBHS does not offer a full ELL (English Language Learner) program, so we are careful to screen students with a higher English proficiency level.