Word of God Academy

What LA GATOR covers at Word of God Academy

Word of God Academy is on the Louisiana Department of Education's 2025-26 list of BESE-approved nonpublic schools, classified as accredited. Approval is the gate: without it a school cannot be paid tuition from a LA GATOR account at all. It is not the same as being signed up, because schools register in Odyssey year by year and the state does not publish who did, so put that question to the office. Its Brumfield v. Dodd nondiscrimination approval, required of any school taking state-funded students, dates from 2010.

On that list the school reported 384 K-12 students plus 64 children in pre-K, making it the 6th-largest of the 21 approved schools we rank by enrollment. Word of God Academy runs three campuses: the Summer Grove Drive main campus, an early childhood and upper school site on Industrial Loop, and a Bossier City campus on Swan Lake Road. BESE lists them under one site code.

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.

Locally it ranks 4th by enrollment of the 14 approved schools in Caddo Parish, with Calvary Baptist Academy the largest. Its pre-K program, 64 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 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

Church schools often discount tuition for member families and for staff. Confirm those discounts survive when part of the bill is paid from a state account, since a few schools apply the award first and recalculate the discount afterward. Ask which fees go through Odyssey.

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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?

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