Loyola College Prep

What LA GATOR covers at Loyola College Prep

Approval status first: Loyola College Prep appears on the 2025-26 BESE-approved nonpublic school list as accredited, which is the condition Louisiana attaches to LA GATOR tuition. Registration in Odyssey happens separately each year, so confirm the school is set up for 2026-27 before you count on the account. Its Brumfield v. Dodd nondiscrimination approval, required of any school taking state-funded students, dates from 1976.

On that list the school reported 401 K-12 students, making it the 5th-largest of the 21 approved schools we rank by enrollment.

The school starts at grade 9, so most families arrive from somewhere else. The approved schools that end at grade 7 or 8 and feed into a high school like this one are Southfield School, First Baptist Church School, St. Joseph Catholic School, St. Mark's Cathedral School. LA GATOR belongs to the student rather than the school, so the award moves with your child at the transfer, though a protected Louisiana Scholarship Program amount ends at the final grade of the school where the voucher was used.

Locally it ranks 3rd by enrollment of the 14 approved schools in Caddo Parish, with Calvary Baptist Academy the largest.

The school also appears on the state's 2024-25 list of schools accepting Tuition Donation Credit scholarships. For a household at or below 250% of the poverty line that is worth real money here: since Act 403 an STO award stacks on top of LA GATOR up to the school's actual tuition and fees, and at north Louisiana prices the two together can cover most of a bill.

The federal Private School Survey (2023-24) recorded 400 students, 38.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and about 10.4 students per teacher. The school reports membership in National Catholic Educational Association.

The multi-year figure

Grade 9 through grade 12 is 4 funded years at this school. Held at 2026-27 levels the whole way, that is roughly $20,972 at the standard amount, $30,504 at the 250%-of-poverty amount, and up to $61,012 for a student with an IDEA disability, before any STO scholarship. Awards reset every year and depend on what the Legislature appropriates, so treat it as a planning number, not a guarantee.

Closing the gap

Ask for the parishioner rate before anything else; the gap between the parishioner and non-parishioner rate at a Shreveport parish school can be larger than the fee schedule. Then ask how the business office bills Odyssey, whether the quarterly deposits line up with the school's billing cycle, and whether an STO award or diocesan assistance can take the remainder.

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Questions for the office

1. Are you registered with Odyssey for 2026-27, and do you bill tuition quarterly to match the deposit schedule?
2. What is the parishioner rate, and what does the parish require for us to qualify for it?
3. What is the all-in cost for this grade with fees, and what would a family at the $5,243 and $7,626 levels still owe?
4. Do you take STO (Tuition Donation Credit) scholarships, and is the STO award applied before or after LA GATOR?
5. Which dual-enrollment and AP courses can be paid from the account, and are the fees billed through Odyssey?

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Straight-line distance between campus coordinates, which in this metro usually understates a drive across the river.