The school gives its figures at a visit, so a family never reads an old number.
Tuition is set by the year and by the grade a child joins. Reading club and extended care are billed apart, for the days a family uses. The school gives its figures at every visit, so a family never reads an old number.
By the school year
Reading club and extended care billed apart
Figures given at the visit
A family pays an application fee when it applies. It covers reading the application and meeting the child. After an offer there is an enrollment fee that holds the place. Each fee is listed by name and purpose with the classes.
Application: when a family applies
Enrollment: when an offer is accepted
A place is held when the family signs the enrollment agreement and makes the first payment, which goes toward tuition. A family has two weeks to answer an offer. If a grade is full, the school keeps a waitlist and calls families in the order they asked.
A signed agreement and a first payment
Two weeks to answer an offer
A waitlist, in order
Tuition is billed monthly across the school year, and a family may pay by the term instead. Payments go through the office's online system, by autopay or by hand.
Monthly or by the term
Autopay or by hand
Financial aid is available. Here is how to apply: after you submit an application, the office sends an aid form. A small committee reads each form and answers with the admissions decision. Ask the office about California programs that may apply to your family.
An aid form follows the application
An answer comes with the admissions decision
Ask us about state programs
A brother or sister is handled differently, and the office explains how when you apply. Siblings are read in the same admissions season, so a family hears about everyone at once.
The school asks for sixty days' written notice before a child leaves. Tuition for a month in progress is billed in full, and the office goes over the details with you in person.
Sixty days' written notice
A few costs sit outside tuition: books and supplies for the year, reading club in the afternoons, extended care, and two or three field trips. Each is listed by name and purpose with the classes, and the office gives the figures at a visit.
Books and supplies
Reading club and extended care
Field trips, billed with the permission slip
Costs
Ages 6 to 8
Mornings begin with reading at the tables.
Age 8
Ages 9 to 11
Friday morning is a writing workshop.
Sample programs.
The head of school can go through the figures and the aid form with you.