Tuition Remission Summary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've searched the posts here and tried to summarize what I've found about schools and the amount of tuition remission they offer to employees. Can people let me know if this is current/accurate? Please add any schools I've missed.

Thank you!

Bullis – 50%
GDS – none
Green Acres – 50%
Heights – 100%
Holton – 50%
Landon – 50%
Lowell – 50%
Madeira – none
McDonogh – 80%
NCS – 50%
Norwood – 50%
NPS – 30%
Park School Baltimore – 100%
Potomac – 50%
Sidwell – none
SSSAS – 50%
St. Albans – 100%
St. Andrews – 100%
Stone Ridge – 30#
Washington Waldorf – 100%

SSSAS - 100%
Bullis - 100%
Sidwell - 80%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've searched the posts here and tried to summarize what I've found about schools and the amount of tuition remission they offer to employees. Can people let me know if this is current/accurate? Please add any schools I've missed.

Thank you!

Bullis – 50%
GDS – none
Green Acres – 50%
Heights – 100%
Holton – 50%
Landon – 50%
Lowell – 50%
Madeira – none
McDonogh – 80%
NCS – 50%
Norwood – 50%
NPS – 30%
Park School Baltimore – 100%
Potomac – 50%
Sidwell – none
SSSAS – 50%
St. Albans – 100%
St. Andrews – 100%
Stone Ridge – 30#
Washington Waldorf – 100%

SSSAS - 100%
Bullis - 100%
Sidwell - 80%

I interviewed at both Bullis and Sidwell a few years back and both were less than that. It's hard to imagine that they'd raise their remission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I were hiring at these schools, I would look very carefully at people who seem to be applying just to get their kids a discount on tuition. You really need to be on board with the school’s mission, be the right kind of educator with the right kind of experience, and be a fit for the department you would teach on. You would not be one to leave as soon as your child ages out.

You can’t just be a mom with a degree in English who decided last week to become an English teacher.

A lot of teachers are like you described, and sometimes they make good teachers being parents who can relate to kids that age. Personally, I would wonder about a school where teachers taught and their kids did not go. I know several teachers who teach at privates who send their kids to public and one is clear she's not a fan of the school environment and wouldn't put her kids in it. To me that is pretty telling. I think kids should go for free.

It also seems like if you are a teacher who has their own school-aged children- which I'm guessing a good chunk of teachers in this area do- it would be CRAZY not to apply to teach at one of these schools. Okay, maybe not crazy, but there is a ton of motivation if you are already an educator and have kids to have your salary effectively supplemented in this manner... it seems like there would be a ton of applicants for every job.

Meh, if you’re making about a third less than you would as a public school teacher and the remission is 50% or less, you really don’t come out ahead. Especially if you consider you have to uproot your kids from all their friends and a school they may like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've searched the posts here and tried to summarize what I've found about schools and the amount of tuition remission they offer to employees. Can people let me know if this is current/accurate? Please add any schools I've missed.

Thank you!

Bullis – 50%
GDS – none
Green Acres – 50%
Heights – 100%
Holton – 50%
Landon – 50%
Lowell – 50%
Madeira – none
McDonogh – 80%
NCS – 50%
Norwood – 50%
NPS – 30%
Park School Baltimore – 100%
Potomac – 50%
Sidwell – none
SSSAS – 50%
St. Albans – 100%
St. Andrews – 100%
Stone Ridge – 30#
Washington Waldorf – 100%

SSSAS - 100%
Bullis - 100%
Sidwell - 80%

This is incorrect. SSSAS is 50% if you are a full time employee. I guess if both parents work there (and there are a few cases of this) hennits 100%

Sidwell offers none BUT will not consider the income of the Sidewell employee parent towards financial aid, so if the other parent makes a significant amount of money then your probably won’t get financial aid. But if your a single parent or the other parent has a low paying job then it could work out. I had a friend quit working there for this reason.

[Anonymous]

SR—think it’s 40%

[Anonymous]

There is so much misinformation here. For the most part, a school's tuition remission (or decision to not give any) is not publicized. It is a hiring tool and most schools prefer to not advertise the percentage because other factors come into play. Let's stop this - it just is not accurate nor helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is so much misinformation here. For the most part, a school's tuition remission (or decision to not give any) is not publicized. It is a hiring tool and most schools prefer to not advertise the percentage because other factors come into play. Let's stop this - it just is not accurate nor helpful.

But I’m so curious!!!! And this is anonymous! Why not share if you know!

[Anonymous]

There is a lot of misinformation. However, most schools are pretty upfront about what they offer, and usually it’s not much. The more nebulous part might be whether your kid gets financial aid on top of the percent off. The stated amount is not a secret. People just have numbers wrong on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I were hiring at these schools, I would look very carefully at people who seem to be applying just to get their kids a discount on tuition. You really need to be on board with the school’s mission, be the right kind of educator with the right kind of experience, and be a fit for the department you would teach on. You would not be one to leave as soon as your child ages out.

You can’t just be a mom with a degree in English who decided last week to become an English teacher.

ugh sexist pig!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SR—think it’s 40%

sR is 30%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At most schools employees can apply for financial aid above the remission that is offered, if they qualify.

Bullis – 50%
GDS – none
Green Acres – 50%
Heights – 100%
Holton – 50% (also applies to sons at Landon)
Landon – 50% (also applies to daughters at Holton)
Lowell – 50%
Madeira – none
Maret - 50%
McDonogh – 80%
NCS – 50% (also applies to sons at St Albans)
Norwood – 50%
NPS – 30%
Park School Baltimore – 100%
Potomac – 50%
Sidwell – none
St. Albans – 100% (scholarship fund for daughters at NCS)
St. Andrews – 100%
SSSAS – 50%
Stone Ridge – 30%
Washington Waldorf – 100%

Anyone know about:
Field
Georgetown Prep
Lowell
St. Johns
Sandy Spring Friends
Sheridan
Visitation
WES
WIS

Any updates, changes or additions?

Beauvoir- 100%

Beauvoir is NOT 100%. Onsite daycare is subsidized, PreK-3 you have to qualify for financial aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I were hiring at these schools, I would look very carefully at people who seem to be applying just to get their kids a discount on tuition. You really need to be on board with the school’s mission, be the right kind of educator with the right kind of experience, and be a fit for the department you would teach on. You would not be one to leave as soon as your child ages out.

You can’t just be a mom with a degree in English who decided last week to become an English teacher.

ugh sexist pig!

What did pigs ever do to you, sexist racist animalist human?

[Anonymous]

Connelly School of the Holy Child used to be 75% off with a certain number of years of longevity, but I don't know what it is now.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have first hand knowledge of whether St. Andrews is still 100%

[Anonymous]

As a parent of kids at a private school, I love the idea that teachers' kids would go for free and think that is a worthwhile goal that would attract me to the school as a non-teacher.

It is a fabulous perk, retention tool, and just an all-around nice thing to do for families who dedicate a lot of themselves for teaching my kids.

Anyway, adding my two cents in case anyone in school administration reads this thread.