Tuition

2013-2014 TUITION

 

Download the 2013-2014 Tuition Schedule |  Download the Tuition Assitance Application

  

Grades 1st - 6th

Tuition Supply Fee Activity Fee
$11,400 $325 Dependent on class activities

 

Early Childhood & Kindergarten (ages 2.5 - 6 years)
Schedule Tuition

Supply Fee

5 Full Days $10,200

$350

5 Half Days $7,400 $290
3 Full Days $7,400 $210
3 Half Days $5,200 $175

 5 Day enrollment required for any child expecting to enroll in Grade One the following year

 

Sibling Discount

Second Child - 25% tuition discount

Additional Children - 30% tuition discount

Siblings must be enrolled in 5-day programs 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Payment Options

Annual / Bi-Annual Lump Sum

12-month term: June - May

10-month term: August - May

 

Tuition and Fee Policies

  1. Receipt of your signed Tuition & Enrollment Contact and class supply fee payment is required to complete the enrollment of your child at Shining Rivers Waldorf School. We will be unable to admit any child with outstanding paperwork or required payments to class on the first day of school.
  2. Tuition can be paid in a lump sum directly to the school. Monthly payments must be made through the SMART tuition management program.
    • Annual Payment: You may pay your tuition in one lump sum and thereby avoid the SMART fee for monthly billing statements. All lump sum payments are due in August and January or by the start of enrollment.
    • Monthly Tuition Payments:All families paying tuition monthly do so through the SMART tuition service. There is a one-time fee to SMART of $45 for this service, depending on payment type. Tuition payments through SMART are made in ten installments for the months August through May. If you are enrolling in the SMART monthly tuition program after July 20th, you may be asked to pay Shining Rivers Waldorf School directly for the first month(s) of tuition.
  3. Families with two children enrolled in any of the school's five day programs will receive a 25% discount on the tuition of the younger child. Families with three or more children enrolled in any of the school's five day programs will receive a 25% discount on the tuition of the second oldest child in a five day program and a 30% discount on the tuitions of the younger children in five day programs.
  4. Tuition payments more than 30 calendar days late will require a meeting, in person, with the Finance Committee to discuss resolution of the problem. Accounts more than 60 days delinquent without resolution will be handled by a collection agency.

 

 

 

Waldorf education addresses the child as no other education does. Learning, whether in chemistry, mathematics, history or geography, is imbued with life and so with joy, which is the only true basis for later study. The textures and colors of nature, the accomplishments and struggles of humankind fill the Waldorf students' imaginations and the pages of their beautiful books. Education grows into a union with life that serves them for decades.

By the time they reach us at the college and university level, these students are grounded broadly and deeply and have a remarkable enthusiasm for learning. Such students possess the eye of the discoverer, and the compassionate heart of the reformer which, when joined to a task, can change the planet.

Arthur Zajonc

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics

Amherst College