ChoiceFunded Search

Community School

900 Lay Rd, Saint Louis, MO 63124Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)

Key facts

Tuition, 2026-27
From $26,355
Grades
PreK-6
Students (K-12)
305
Students per teacher
6.8
Affiliation
Nonsectarian
From Saint Louis center
6.4 miles

All school facts and where they come from

Can you use MOScholars here?

Missouri publishes no school list
About the list
How the MOScholars list works
Applying
You apply through one of the state-approved Educational Assistance Organizations, not to the state directly.

Source: MOScholars official source.

What you would pay here

Net cost
MOScholars’s 2026-27 amount per student is not yet verified word for word, so it is not subtracted. See the school’s tuition page

School facts

Teachers
45
Student body
Coeducational
Boys and girls
51% boys, 49% girls
Setting
Suburb
Partner list
Partner school of a state-certified educational assistance organization (Herzog Foundation); not a state list

Where this comes from. Something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

Students and school year

Enrollment over time

284 2019-20 295 2021-22 305 2023-24
2019-20 to 2023-24
284 to 305, up 21 (7%)
Path
Grew in each survey (295 in 2021-22)

Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)

53 PK 45 K 42 1 45 2 45 3 43 4 44 5 41 6
Largest grade
3 grades (45 each)
Smallest grade
Grade 6 (41)
Average a grade
About 44

The school year

Days in the school year
162
Length of the school day
7 hours 5 minutes
Hours of school a year
about 1,150
Kindergarten
Full day, 5 days a week
Classes, 2023-24
In person
Library or media center
Yes
Year, against Missouri
12 days shorter than the 174-day median of 463 schools we list
School day, against Missouri
About the median of 7 hours (466 schools we list)

How it compares

This school 6.8 MO median 10.8
Students per teacher
This school 305 County median 167
Students vs county median
Students per teacher
6.8 here; median 10.8 at 269 MO elementary schools
Size in St. Louis County
Larger than 110 of 141 other schools we list

Student body, 2023-24

White 63% Asian 13% Two or more races 11% Black 10% Hispanic 2%

Shares of K-12 students by race and ethnicity, as NCES reports them.

Community School tuition, and what MOScholars pays

Grades K to 5, 2026-27
$26,355
Grades 6 to 8, 2026-27
$27,390
By grade
Rates vary within these bands (details below)

Nursery to senior kindergarten is $26,355 and grades 1 to 6 are $27,390; tuition includes books, supplies, field trips, snacks and lunch.

Tuition from Community School's website, checked October 5, 2026.

MOScholars Tax-credit scholarship
Award
Up to $7,145 per student for 2026-27, more for some students
How it varies
The law sets each ceiling as a share of the state adequacy target, which the Missouri education department lists as $7,145 for 2026-27: up to 100% of it for most students, 125% for students eligible for free or reduced lunch, 160% for English learners and 175% for students with an IEP. Worked example (our arithmetic, not a figure the state publishes): 175% of $7,145 is about $12,503. These are ceilings: assistance organizations may award less, and the average award in 2025-26 was $6,831.

Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 7, 2026. Sources and how to apply

What would you pay at Community School?

  • Tuition filled in: the lowest published price we list (grades K to 5, 2026-27).
  • Change them for your child’s grade.
  • Type in the MOScholars figure from your award letter.
Ask the school
Whether its published 2026-27 tuition is still current; whether it takes MOScholars; its application deadline. More questions to ask

Other private schools nearby

SchoolGradesStudentsPer teacherAffiliationMiles
John Burroughs SchoolNot in the federal survey<1
Annunziata SchoolUngraded186.4Roman Catholic<1
Immacolata SchoolPreK-826412.6Roman Catholic<1
Logos School6-121065Nonsectarian2
Central Christian SchoolPreK-61718.8Presbyterian2
H.F. Epstein Hebrew AcademyPreK-121093.5Jewish2
Torah Prep School - Boys DivisionPreK-822912.1Jewish2
Torah Prep SchoolPreK-82299.5Jewish2

Private schools

No new MOScholars application dates are posted yet. How MOScholars works.

Run this school? Update this listing for free.

Call the school What you pay