For families with a child in their kindergarten year or older, you can apply for tuition assistance. First submit an enrollment application, and then submit a confidential application on Clarity and read Clarity’s Family Application Guide if you have questions. Read our Indexed Tuition Policy for more information.

Tuition adjustments are at the discretion of the Board of Trustees and depend on available resources. Priority is given to families who apply by the deadline.

Act 166 provides non–need-based preschool funding for children ages 3–5 by September 1. Funds are paid directly to the LCWS and applied to 10 hours per week of preschool. To be eligible for the full subsidy, parents must complete registration through their local school district before the first day of school. For more information, click here or contact your local school district.

Note: Act 166 funds may be prorated by school districts for children with extended absences.

Also note: Children entering their official kindergarten year are not eligible for Act 166 but may apply for Indexed Tuition.

Child Care Financial Assistance Program: Guidelines for State Preschool Tuition Assistance and information on how to apply can be found on the DCF page of the Agency for Human Services website.

The process for determining where a family’s tuition falls on our indexed tuition scale takes into consideration the number of students enrolled. You complete one application for the family.

We offer four installment plans - lump sum, semi-annual, quarterly or monthly with payments due on either the 1st or 15th of each month.

In addition to Indexed Tuition, families may apply for our Diversity & Inclusion Fund Scholarship.

Our high school families may request the optional Waldorf Incentive Discount to help reduce the cost of tuition. This discount provides 3% tuition relief for each full year a student attended a Waldorf school in grades 1-8. It is applied before any tuition adjustment awards and does not affect minimum tuition requirements. To take advantage of this incentive, families should submit this application.

Note: The incentive does not apply to partial Waldorf years.

We know life can change, sometimes unexpectedly. At the time of enrollment, all families pay the required Tuition Protection Plan fee, which provides financial protection in case a student needs to withdraw from school. The fee is 1.5% of the adjusted tuition and is not included in the tuition rates above. Learn more about our plan and the terms here.

As is the case at most independent schools, tuition revenue alone does not cover the full cost of educating each student at LCWS. Fundraising, charitable giving, and the generous volunteer efforts of our families help make up the difference and sustain the richness of our programs.

Getting started is easy — visit our Admissions Process page to make sure you’ve completed all of the necessary steps. If you’re ready to fill out an application, you can do so here. You’ll be directed to set up an account in our admissions portal, where you can complete your application at your own pace.