Latest on 2025-2026 Tuition

We are enjoying the start to this current school year while also planning for the 2025-2026 academic year is in full swing. For example, the financial leadership team and the Board of Directors’ Finance Committee are utilizing a five-year strategic financial plan that will provide the Board of Directors and CLHS Administration guidance as they consider staffing levels, faculty and staff compensation, construction funding, tuition, and other vital activities.

As we look toward the holiday season, we have some VERY important information to share with you on four important topics. Please read this entire page by clicking on the four collapsible content headers listed below. We will also send reminders and updates over the next couple of months.

1. Letter from the Head of School

Dear Concordia Families,

We pray that this correspondence finds your family well as we are in the Advent season. We are thankful for the opportunity to have this special time for family and the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. With the new semester and opportunities upon us following Christmas break and for the remainder of the school year, we enter into a season of communicating plans for the life and ministry of Concordia Lutheran High School into the future, specifically for the 2025-2026 school year. While we are thrilled to be celebrating the class of 2025 graduating in May, we are also actively planning for the future of students and families well into the future. This includes establishing a vibrant new strategic plan for our next five years, a prayerful analysis of resource stewardship to sustain and propel student centered endeavors, and reflecting on how we are attentive to the mission aligned partnership, trust, and voice of our valued families.

If you were an enrolled family at Concordia last school year, you took part in a newly implemented “continuous enrollment” process. The data and feedback we received in this process last year has affirmed the continuation of this platform moving forward. Below, please find additional information regarding information related to continuous enrollment for the 2025-2026 school year. As your family continues to faithfully place your trust and resources in the education and transformational growth of your student(s) at Concordia, it is our desire to provide appropriate transparency in partnership. In light of this, school leadership, under the direction and support of the board of directors, has prayerfully set tuition rates for the 2025-2026 school year to sustain, grow, and deliver on our commitment to transformational excellence.

As we faithfully consider how we pursue our mission of Building Lives of Excellence Upon the Foundation of Christ, we annually recommit to how this is boldly executed across campus. This includes instituting next level standards in practice, upholding accountability in delivery, and increasing operational efficiencies across campus. This is a God honoring excellence that seeks to strengthen our students in the development of their faith and to confidently prepare them for a Christian life of service, purpose, and leadership in a global society. In this pursuit, we hold the engagement we have with each family in high regard and we value your voice and perceptions for the sake of reflective growth opportunities and the affirmation of current practices.

During the spring of this school year, a schoolwide survey platform will be distributed to your family so that we may further reflect on and study the collective voice of our families within the context of our enrollment relationship. Beyond the opportunity to contribute through this survey instrument, please reach out to Head of School, Mr. Todd Eklund, should you have a desire to engage dialogue about Concordia's future and your family's position.

May the peace of the Lord reside with your family during this season.

For His Glory,

Todd Eklund

Head of School

2. Continuous Enrollment

A implemented last year for this current school year, Concordia will continue to use a continuous enrollment model. If your student is enrolled at Concordia this year, he or she will automatically be enrolled for next year (and each year thereafter until graduation!).

There are several benefits to this increasingly popular approach to enrollment management:

Families no longer need to repeat the tedious and time-consuming enrollment process each year.
Returning students’ class schedules can be completed sooner, as our academic counseling department will have a clearer idea earlier this Spring of who will be returning.
Business office operations will become more efficient and responsive to family account questions, as basic family and payment information will not need to be updated each year.

All families will be automatically re-enrolled for the 25-26 school year. Registration Fee of $500 will be added to your March billing and Technology Fee of $500 will be added to your April billing. Reminder, these fees are non-refundable.

If your student will not be returning for the 25-26 school year, you must complete the Withdrawal Form HERE by Feb. 15, 2025, to avoid being billed registration and technology fees.

3. 2025-2026 Tuition

The Board of Directors approved a tuition rate for the 2025-2026 school year of $21,500.

This rate of increase is based on a financial model that links tuition rates to increases in faculty and staff compensation, additional program resources, overall inflation, and planning for the future financial health of Concordia. All of this is considered in partnership with a schoolwide strategic plan focused on next level standards of practice and campus-wide operational efficiencies.

Concordia will continue to offer the same sibling and active association church member discounts.

4. Affording A Concordia Education

As tuition rises each year, we continue to make significant investments to make Concordia affordable for a wide socio-economic spectrum of families.

Our financial model is intentionally designed to provide access to students whose families cannot afford the full amount of tuition, and about 40% of our students receive some form of Tuition Assistance. The recently endorsed five-year financial plan builds on that ministry priority, increasing budgeted aid proportionally with tuition.

In order for your family to know whether you qualify for Tuition Assistance and how your tuition may be affected PRIOR TO continuous enrollment, the following timeline is paramount:

Click HERE for all of the information needed to set up your Tuition Assistance account in Blackbaud. You can set up your account and submit your application beginning on December 2, 2024.
Complete your Tuition Assistance application and upload 2023 tax information requested by Blackbaud by Friday, January 10.
- If you do not have your application completed by January 10, 2025 you are still welcome to apply, but your application will not be considered in the priority phase, and you may not know your actual tuition before enrollment fees are billed in early March.
- Keep in mind that if a family waits to apply for Tuition Assistance, fewer budgeted funds will be available and applications for new families may have begun to be considered.
Once the Tuition Assistance Committee has reviewed the application report from Blackbaud, your family will receive an email notification through the Blackbaud system as to the amount of your award, if you qualify.
Should your family qualify for need-based Tuition Assistance, the notification will give you three options:

- - - Accept the award
    - Decline the award
    - Appeal the decision

Once you have accepted an award, your 2025-2026 tuition will be updated in the Tuition Management system, and your student will be automatically enrolled for next year.

If your family has not applied or qualified for Tuition Assistance in the past, but you are concerned that rising tuition may affect your ability to afford a Concordia education, we welcome your Blackbaud application by the priority deadline January 10, 2025!

If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected]

Yours Faithfully,

The CLHS Administrative Team