The Children's School at Stephens C
PO Box 2022, Columbia, MO 65215Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- On the school’s website
- Grades
- PreK-5
- Students (K-12)
- 24
- Students per teacher
- 6
- Affiliation
- Nonsectarian
- From Columbia center
- Under 1 mile
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
- Not worked out: no verified 2026-27 tuition yet. See the school’s tuition page
School facts
- Teachers
- 4
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 38% boys, 62% girls
- Setting
- City
- 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
- 2021-22 to 2023-24
- 39 to 24, down 15 (38%)
Students by grade, 2023-24 (pre-K is not in the K-12 count)
- Largest grade
- Grade 1 (8)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 2 (2)
- Average a grade
- About 4
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 175
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,230
- Kindergarten
- Full day, 5 days a week
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- Library or media center
- Yes
- Year, against Missouri
- 1 day longer 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
- Students per teacher
- 6 here; median 10.8 at 269 MO elementary schools
- Size in Boone County
- Larger than 1 of 11 other schools we list
- 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.
The Children's School at Stephens C tuition, and what MOScholars pays
- Published tuition
- On the school’s own tuition page (found September 29, 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
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Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Street Montessori Schl | PreK-4 | 7 | <1 |
| Islamic School of Columbia-Missouri | PreK-5 | 51 | <1 |
| Meadowlark School | PreK-K | 5 | <1 |
| City Garden School | K-7 | 80 | 2 |
| Columbia Montessori School | PreK-K | 1 | 2 |
| Hominy Creek Independent School | Not in the federal survey | 2 | |
| College Park Christian Academy | K-8 | 58 | 3 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Interparish School | K-8 | 628 | 3 |
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