The New School

EFA and The New School

The state's 2024-25 EFA report lists The New School as a participating school with 96 EFA students, 21% of its enrollment of about 460.

That ranks #7 of 21 participating schools in Benton and Washington counties by number of EFA students. Its EFA share is below the local average of 47% across those schools.

Of those EFA students, 90% continued in the program the next school year and 85% stayed at The New School. Statewide, schools kept 84% of their EFA students on average. Students who graduated count as leaving.

On the nationally norm-referenced tests participating schools must give, The New School's EFA students averaged the 67th percentile in math and the 68th in reading, above the national median of 50. Statewide, EFA students averaged the 57th and 59th.

Families paid $318,762 to The New School from EFA accounts in the spring 2024-25 transactions the report covers. Fall transactions aren't broken out by provider.

In the federal Private School Survey (2023-24), the school reported 307 students, 24 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-teacher ratio of about 12.8:1. It lists memberships in National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), State/regional independent school association (e.g., ISAS).

From kindergarten through grade 12, that's 13 school years. At the 2026-27 amount, a child who uses an account every year here would bring about $93,704 in state funding over that span. The amount is set each year, so treat this as a planning number. Pre-K years are not covered; the account starts at kindergarten.

Paying the balance

Independent schools set their own need-based aid. Ask whether the school counts the EFA before or after it calculates aid. That order can change your balance by thousands of dollars.

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Questions to ask the school

1. How do you bill EFA families: directly through ClassWallet each quarter, or do we pay and get reimbursed?
2. What is the full cost for my child's grade, including registration, books, uniforms and fees, and what's left after the $7,208 account?
3. Which discounts and aid apply on top of the account?
4. Which nationally norm-referenced test do you give, and will you share my child's results?
5. Which concurrent-credit courses do you offer, and can those fees come from the account?
6. Do you have openings in pre-K, and does a pre-K seat carry into kindergarten, when the account starts?

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