Holy Cross Elementary School
1020 Wilber St., South Bend, IN 46628Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition, 2025-26
- $7,625
- Grades
- PreK-8
- Students (K-12)
- 348
- Students per teacher
- 16
- Affiliation
- Roman Catholic
- From South Bend center
- Under 1 mile
Can you use Choice Scholarship here?
✓ On the official Indiana Choice Scholarship list
- State list
- Includes this school
- Applying
- The school files the application for you. The main period runs March 1 to September 1, and a half-year period runs November 1 to January 15.
Source: the official list, read October 26, 2026.
What you would pay here
- Net cost
- Tuition verified for 2025-26; the 2026-27 award is subtracted only from a 2026-27 price. See the school’s tuition page
School facts
- Teachers
- 22
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Diocese
- Diocese of Ft. Wayne-South Bend, IN
- Boys and girls
- 46% boys, 54% girls
- Setting
- City
- Accreditation, state list
- Accredited by the Indiana State Board of Education (full state accreditation), per the Indiana Department of Education 2025-26 school directory, file dated March 23, 2026.
- Accreditation: the state’s list.
- School facts, kindergarten to grade 12: U.S. Department of Education, NCES Private School Survey 2023-24, read September 20, 2026.
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Students and school year
Enrollment over time
- 2019-20 to 2023-24
- 259 to 348, up 89 (34%)
- Path
- Grew in each survey (299 in 2021-22)
Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)
- Largest grade
- Grade 4 (51)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 7 and grade 8 (24 each)
- Across the grades
- Classes thin out toward the upper grades
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 8 hours
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,440
- Kindergarten
- Full day, 5 days a week
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- Library or media center
- Yes
- Year, against Indiana
- Same as the median of the 526 private schools we list
- School day, against Indiana
- 60 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (527 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 16 here; median 12.5 at 335 IN elementary schools
- Size in St. Joseph County
- Larger than 30 of 35 other schools we list
Student body, 2023-24
Shares of K-12 students by race and ethnicity, as NCES reports them.
- Grades, school year and student body: U.S. Department of Education, NCES Private School Survey 2023-24, read September 20, 2026.
- Earlier counts: NCES Private School Survey 2019-20 and 2021-22, read October 14, 2026.
- Comparisons: the private schools ChoiceFunded lists, as of this page’s last update.
Holy Cross Elementary School tuition, and what Choice Scholarship pays
- Grades K to 5, 2025-26
- $7,625
- Grades 6 to 8, 2025-26
- $7,625
Tuition from Holy Cross Elementary School's website, checked October 5, 2026.
Indiana Choice Scholarship Scholarship
- Award
- About $6,000 to $8,300, set by your home school district
- How it varies
- These are the state’s 2026-27 estimates. The award is the lesser of that figure or the school’s tuition and fees.
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 1, 2026. Sources and how to apply
What would you pay at Holy Cross Elementary School?
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Tuition and fees Choice Scholarship pays You pay per year Spread over 10 months
- Tuition filled in: the lowest published price we list (grades K to 5, 2025-26).
- Change them for your child’s grade.
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- Whether its published 2025-26 tuition is still current; whether it still takes Choice Scholarship for 2026-27; its application deadline. More questions to ask
Tuition at nearby private schools
| School | Published tuition | Year | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Grade School | $8,850 | 2026-27 | 1.7 |
| St. Joseph High School | $12,675 | 2026-27 | 1.8 |
Each figure was read on that school's own website. Ranges run from the lowest to the highest grade band.
Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genai Excellence Academy ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | <1 | |
| Trinity School at Greenlawn ✓ | On the state list; not in the federal survey | 1 | |
| River Montessori High School ✓ | 9-12 | 43 | 1 |
| St. Thomas More Academy ✓ | K-12 | 198 | 1 |
| St. John the Baptist Catholic School ✓ | PreK-8 | 111 | 1 |
| St. Adalbert Catholic School ✓ | PreK-8 | 200 | 1 |
| St. Joseph Grade School ✓ | PreK-8 | 424 | 2 |
| St. Joseph High School ✓ | 9-12 | 849 | 2 |
On the program’s official list Other private schools
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Next Choice Scholarship date: Open now, until January 15, 2027 (Half-year application period (spring semester); the school files for you).
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