{"id":9,"date":"2014-05-13T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:15:35","slug":"bright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj7jsOd9eXdAhVDtlkKHVxSAa4QjRx6BAgBEAU&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.floridastudentfinancialaidsg.org%2FSAPBFMAIN%2FSAPBFMAIN&amp;psig=AOvVaw3K2is26zJlpMy7wteodEH2&amp;ust=1538506431594840\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floridastudentfinancialaidsg.org\/Content\/img\/logo_bf.gif\" alt=\"Image result for bright futures\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #339966\"><a style=\"color: #339966\" href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/10\/Senior-Financial-Aid-PowerPoint-2025-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senior Financial Aid PowerPoint\u00a0 2025-2026<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridastudentfinancialaid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Futures Application &#8211; Office of Student Financial Aid<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2026\/03\/Bright-Futures-Application-Helpful-Hints-2025-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Futures Application &#8211; Helpful Hints 2025-2026<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;font-size: 14pt\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/08\/Bright-Futures-Eligibility-Chapter-1-Handbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Futures Chapter 1 Handbook &#8211; Eligibility<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/12\/Bright-Futures-Chapter-2-Handbook-What-you-Need-to-Know-Now-That-You-Are-Eligible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Futures Chapter 2 Handbook &#8211; What you Need to Know Now That You Are Eligible<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;font-size: 14pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/10\/Bright-Futures-Handout-2025-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Futures Handout 2025-2026<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/10\/Navigating-your-Financial-Future-Oct-Nov-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navigating your Financial Future Oct-Nov 2025<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridastudentfinancialaidsg.org\/SAPHome\/SAPHome?url=home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OSFA &#8211; Bright Futures Information<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/08\/Bright-Futures-Now-that-you-are-Eligible-Chapter-2-Handbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Futures Now that you are Eligible &#8211; Chapter 2 Handbook<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a style=\"font-size: 12pt\" href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/11\/Bright-Futures-Evaluation-Key.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bright Futures Evaluation Key<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/community-service-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Service Information<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/08\/BF-Grid-25-26.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8564\" src=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/08\/BF-Grid-25-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/08\/BF-Grid-25-26.png 727w, https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/08\/BF-Grid-25-26-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Important Information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial;font-size: large\">The Bright Futures Application for the Class of 2025 opened on October 1, 2024. Your application must be completed before graduation!\u00a0 Seniors should apply in October even while they are still working on the requirements.\u00a0 School counselors will be meeting with students through their English classes for a Financial Aid lesson and will cover Bright Futures information and help students apply.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial;font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0 Students can use their scholarship award for up to <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">five years<\/span> after graduation, but they must apply this year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">After students apply, a User ID and PIN will be e-mailed from the Office of Student Financial Aid. Students will then be able to check the status of your application.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial;font-size: 14pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Financial Aid PowerPoint\u00a0 2025-2026 Bright Futures Application &#8211; Office of Student Financial Aid Bright Futures Application &#8211; Helpful Hints 2025-2026 Bright Futures Chapter 1 Handbook &#8211; Eligibility Bright Futures Chapter 2 Handbook &#8211; What you Need to Know Now That You Are Eligible Bright Futures Handout 2025-2026 Navigating your Financial Future Oct-Nov 2025 OSFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8977,"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/8977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us\/guidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}