St. Mark's Cathedral School

What LA GATOR covers at St. Mark's Cathedral School

Approval status first: St. Mark's Cathedral 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 1980.

On that list the school reported 219 K-12 students plus 62 children in pre-K, making it the 10th-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 8th by enrollment of the 14 approved schools in Caddo Parish, with Calvary Baptist Academy the largest. Its pre-K program, 62 children, is the usual path into kindergarten, which is the first year the account can pay anything.

It was not on the 2024-25 Tuition Donation Credit list, so an STO scholarship may not be usable here unless the school has joined since. That matters more at the higher-tuition schools than at the ones the award nearly covers on its own. LA GATOR itself is unaffected.

The federal Private School Survey (2023-24) recorded 212 students, 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and about 7.4 students per teacher. The school reports membership in National Association of Episcopal Schools, 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

Episcopal day schools run their own need-based aid. Ask where LA GATOR enters the calculation: a school that counts the account before assessing need can leave you with a larger balance than one that counts it after.

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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.