Tuition and Fees / Financial Aid
2008-2009 Academic Year
Good Shepherd Lutheran School is owned, operated, and maintained by the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd.
No child shall be denied admission to Good Shepherd Lutheran School for the inability to pay the tuition.
Our Per Pupil Cost (PPC) is $5,000 - to help offset those costs we have various support programs.
Tuition Assistance Available
Kindergarten - 7th Grade
- $3,000/Year, per child
Pay your family's total tuition by cash or check no later than August 19 and receive a 5% discount off the total. $2,850.00.
Pay 25% of your family's total school tuition by cash or check no later than August 19 ($750) and make 9 regular monthly payments of the remaining balance beginning September 15 ($250.00 a month)
Little Lambs Preschool
- M-W-F Mornings 9am - 11:30am, 9 $95.00 monthly payments or $855 annual payment
- M-W-F Afternoons 12:30pm - 3:00pm, 9 $95.00 monthly payments or $855 annual payment
- T-TH Mornings 9am - 11:30am, 9 $75.00 monthly payments or $675 annual payment
- T-TH Afternoons 12:30pm - 3:00pm, 9 $75.00 monthly payments or $675 annual payment
Parents are invited to work with the Good Shepherd Lutheran School Board if the tuition is causing concerns. Contact 507.388.4336 or goodshepherd57@juno.com.
Fees
K-7, A nonrefundable registration fee of $125.00 is due by May 15th. After July 1st the nonrefundable fee will be $175.00.
Other Costs
Forms
- School Tuition/Fee Payment Plan Worksheet (at the School Office)
- Family Budget Worksheet | Microsoft Excel | PDF |
- Online Financial Aid Application (Confidential Financial Analysis, processing fee applies)
- K–12 Education Subtraction and Credit
Inquire about Thrivent's Simply Giving® Tuition Payment Program
Financial Planning Calculators and Resources
- Coverdell Education Savings Accounts - Thrivent
- Publication 970 - Coverdell - IRS
- Everything You Know About Kids and Money is Wrong
- Budgeting 101
- The Secret to Budgeting Successfully
- Thrivent Education Center
Budget Software
Macintosh
- Money (commercial/retail)
- iBudget (shareware)
- Debtinator (shareware)
- Cha-Ching (shareware)
- Easy Money (commercial/retail)
- SpendThrift (commercial/retail)
- MoneyDance (commercial/retail)
- Buddi (freeware)
- Buddi (freeware)
- MoneyDance (commercial/retail)
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Train a child in the way he should go; and even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6