Tuition and Fees

We accept students in grades Junior Kindergarten (must be 4 years to start) to 12th grade of High school.

Please click here to read about our curriculum and programs.

Please click here for admissions information, including affordability, fees and discounts.

Full Time Program:

We are working on making our program more affordable through grants and we will be more affordable once we reach the economy of scale. If you wish to be considered for admissions once we are able to offer aid, please reach out to admissions to be put on the mailing list. Tuition is prorated, of course. Check with admissions to see what it is for the remainder of a year if you need to join a term that has begun.


The tuition for the 2024-2025 school year will be $32,921. For families interested in rolling admission, the tuition for 2023-2024 school year is prorated from $31,475 (divided by 10 and multiplied by the number of months your student will attend). A student applying close to, or after the start of the school year might not get all of their desired programming as programming will be prioritized based on summer planning for our enrolled students. The tuition will go up again for anyone who applies after September 1, 2024.

Affordability and Scholarships:

Scholarship (third year) for 2024-2025 school year are still very limited:

  • We offer two, limited, separate scholarship opportunities. Scholarships will be re-evaluated every year and are not a continuous guarantee.

  • Merit: we are possibly the only private school in IL that has a need-blind, limited number of merit scholarships available. These do NOT cover full tuition and are reserved to support PG students in the school based on achievement in one or more fields of study. We are not achievement-driven for admissions, but we do have this scholarship to attract students of unusual and outstanding ability.

  • Need-based financial aid: this financial aid does not cover full tuition for anyone at this time but is designed to make the school more financially diverse, as our goal is to be diverse in all areas including net income. You have to request financial aid during or prior to your interview process for admission. Aid is not guaranteed year-to-year. Need-based aid is available on a first come, first served basis and is extremely limited due to the novelty of our program.

  • February 1st, 2024 is the deadline for the 2024-2025 school year.

Discounts:

  • Siblings: 5% less for both, 7% off cumulative tuition if more than 2 children attend from the same family.

  • If a parent or legal guardian is a full-time teacher/professor at an accredited university in Chicago, or is an active member or veteran of the armed services, they receive a further 2% discount over their total.

  • Full time teachers at the school get free tuition for at least one child, if space allows at the time of hire.

  • Part time teachers at the school get free part time tuition for one class for one child.

Application Fee:

$50

Other Fees and Costs:

$1,000 deposit, $1,000 New Family fee per family, a $1,000 tech/individual equipment fee. Going to any school, public or private, may result in costs. Our family committee can help you make a budget for those potential costs if your child is entering school for the first time.

Required Giving:

  • We have 1 school-initiated fundraiser per year, going only into our second year. Your tuition is your tuition. However, we encourage a minimal gift during the annual school drives and we have a very active family association that runs a number of fundraising events through the year. Every little bit helps as the only people that will fund gifted education are the families whose kids are attending.