Southfield School

What LA GATOR covers at Southfield School

Approval status first: Southfield School 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 1984.

On that list the school reported 310 K-12 students plus 89 children in pre-K, making it the 7th-largest of the 21 approved schools we rank by enrollment.

Because the school ends at grade 8, the account has a second act: it follows your child to any approved high school that admits them. The nearest approved schools serving grade 9 are Loyola College Prep, Word of God Academy, Providence Classical Academy, Central School.

Locally it ranks 5th by enrollment of the 14 approved schools in Caddo Parish, with Calvary Baptist Academy the largest. Its pre-K program, 89 children, is the usual path into kindergarten, which is the first year the account can pay anything.

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 305 students, 30 full-time-equivalent teachers and about 10.2 students per teacher. The school reports membership in National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

The multi-year figure

Kindergarten through grade 8 is 9 funded years at this school. Held at 2026-27 levels the whole way, that is roughly $47,187 at the standard amount, $68,634 at the 250%-of-poverty amount, and up to $137,277 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.

Closing the gap

Independent schools set tuition without a church subsidizing it, and most run need-based aid through FACTS or a similar service. The order of operations is the question that matters, and at the outer-parish academies the account may cover most of the published rate on its own.

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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. Which high schools do your grade 8 students usually move on to?
5. Does a pre-K seat carry over into a kindergarten seat, which is the first year the account pays?

Closest other private schools

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