Tuition for the 2024-25 school year has been set at $27,311 by our Board of Trustees. This represents an approximately 3% increase over last year.

PSCS is a non-profit, independent, tuition-based school. Tuition covers staff salaries and benefits (salaries are currently flat for both teachers and administration, based on a 10- or 12-month contract), rent in the International Building, budgeted and unplanned program costs, affiliations, and community engagement. Being a small non-profit school allows us to build family connection, teach honest history, and evolve our pedagogy, professional development, and strategies along with ever-shifting academic and social needs.

Tuition each year is proposed by staff and approved by the Board of Trustees each spring. For returning and new families, a non-refundable $1500 deposit is due at the time an enrollment agreement is signed.

This deposit is credited toward the student’s final tuition. Families who attend PSCS can choose from three payment options (Installments).

Tuition Access

Our staff and families understand the word "private" sounds like "inaccessible" to some, especially as applying to schools is already a complicated process. Please consider applying anyway. For each of the last 10 years, PSCS has funded over $100,000 in tuition and program costs for families who qualify. We do this by fundraising each year for roughly 10% of our budget, so our community may access truly diverse perspective and in recognition of the additional labor of those most marginalized by systemic inequity.  

All admissions decisions are made independently of Tuition Access decisions.

In order to receive funding, families are asked to submit financial information to FACTS Grant & Aid Assessment System, an impartial system that provides PSCS with an overview of your objective financial data. We also encourage those applying for aid to submit written subjective data—usually a letter—submitted to the PSCS Tuition Access Committee. This committee, which includes administrators, reviews all information submitted, objective and subjective, to determine allocations and awards.

Program Access

PSCS works hard to include fees and expenses in tuition costs and not nickel and dime families as we go along in a school year. Added fees depend on individual student activities and the needs of certain courses. However, we want students to be able to do things that may have associated fees, regardless of their economic status. As such, we offer program aid to families for whom added costs might stand in the way of a student doing activities or taking courses they are interested in.