Lower studio
Kindergarten to grade 2
Class size: 22
- School day8:30 am to 3:15 pm · 5 daysOffered
- Early care7:45 am to 8:30 am · 5 daysOffered
- After studio3:15 pm to 5:30 pm · 5 daysWaitlist
How tuition and aid work
What sets tuition, how a place is held and how to ask about aid, in plain words.
Tuition is set by the year and by the studio a child is in. Early care and after studio are billed apart, by the month, for the days a family uses. The school's figures are on the admissions page and are given at every visit, so you never read an old one.
Set by the studio a child is in
Early care and after studio billed apart
Figures given at the visit
Registration
A family pays an application fee when it applies, which covers reading the application and the morning a child spends in a studio. After an offer there is an enrollment fee that holds the place and goes toward tuition. Each is listed, with its purpose, in the program matrix.
Application: when a family applies
Enrollment: when an offer is accepted
Holding a place
A place is held when the family signs the enrollment agreement and makes the first payment. Families have until early April to answer an offer. If a studio is full, the office keeps a waitlist and calls families in the order they joined.
Signed agreement and first payment
Waitlist by order of joining
Billing
Families pay by the year, by the term or by the month. Monthly payments run by autopay through the school's online system, and the office goes over the schedule with you when you enroll.
By the year, term or month
Autopay through the school's online system
Help with tuition
Financial aid is available; here is how to apply. After you submit an application, the office sends an aid form. A small committee reads each form and answers in the same week as admissions decisions. Ask the office about Rhode Island programs that may apply to your family.
An aid form follows the application
Answers come with admissions decisions
Ask us about state programs
Siblings
A second child, or a third, is handled differently, and the office explains how when you apply. Brothers and sisters are read in the same season so a family hears about everyone at once.
Withdrawing
We ask for a term's written notice before a child leaves, so the studio can offer the place to a family on the waitlist. The office will talk through a term already under way.
Written notice a term ahead
Costs
Each cost and what it is for
Middle studio
Grades 3 to 5
Class size: 25- School day8:30 am to 3:15 pm · 5 daysOffered
- Early care7:45 am to 8:30 am · 5 daysOffered
- After studio3:15 pm to 5:30 pm · 5 daysOffered
Upper studio
Grades 6 to 8
Class size: 28- School day8:30 am to 3:15 pm · 5 daysOffered
- Early care7:45 am to 8:30 am · 5 daysOffered
- After studio3:15 pm to 5:30 pm · 5 daysEnds at 5:00 pm on FridaysOffered
Fees and what each is for
- Application
- Covers reading the application and the morning a child spends in a studio. Due when a family applies.
- Enrollment
- Holds a place after an offer is accepted. It goes toward tuition.
- Materials and tools
- Paper, clay, wood and cloth for the year, bought by the school and billed once, in the fall.
- City trips
- Transit and entry for the Thursday outings. Billed after each trip.
- Early care and after studio
- Billed by the month, for the days a family uses.
Sample programs.
Ask about aid at a visit
The head of school can walk through the aid form with you.