Providence Classical Academy

What LA GATOR covers at Providence Classical Academy

Approval status first: Providence Classical Academy 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 2010.

On that list the school reported 617 K-12 students plus 47 children in pre-K, making it the 3rd-largest of the 21 approved schools we rank by enrollment.

It is one of 10 approved schools in this market that carry a student from the early grades through graduation on one campus. For a family budgeting LA GATOR that is the significant fact: you are not planning a transfer at grade 8 or 9, you are renewing the same award at the same school for over a decade while tuition climbs with the grade level.

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 618 students, 52.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and about 11.8 students per teacher.

The multi-year figure

Kindergarten through grade 12 is 13 funded years at this school. Held at 2026-27 levels the whole way, that is roughly $68,159 at the standard amount, $99,138 at the 250%-of-poverty amount, and up to $198,289 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. Pre-K years are not eligible; the account starts at age 5. Thirteen years at one school is the longest single-campus run the account can fund in Louisiana.

Closing the gap

Classical schools here tend to publish one tuition figure and a short fee list, which makes the account math unusually clean. Ask whether fees for books, testing and athletics are billed through Odyssey or separately, and whether tuition rises at a set grade boundary.

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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 all-in cost for this grade with fees, and what would a family at the $5,243 and $7,626 levels still owe?
3. Do you take STO (Tuition Donation Credit) scholarships, and is the STO award applied before or after LA GATOR?
4. Does tuition step up at a particular grade, and what did it rise by over the last three years?
5. Does a pre-K seat carry over into a kindergarten seat, which is the first year the account pays?
6. Do you enroll mid-year for military families arriving on orders, and have you handled an Odyssey application that went to manual review?

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