Charlotte Latin School

Round trip $1,800 · one way $900 · activity bus $450 per season. The fee panel is headed "Bus Service Annual Fees 2025-26" while the tuition page has moved to 2026–27, so a family budgeting for next year cannot price the bus from the website.

Per-semester, TK–5, 2026–27. Three of five rows scale exactly with their own one-day rate; two do not. TK/K 1:30–4:30 p.m.: $635/day implies $2,540 for four days, but the table prints $2,300. Grades 1–5 2:55–4:30 p.m.: $295/day implies $1,180 for four days, but the table prints $1,880. Reproduced exactly as published rather than corrected — confirm both with the business office.

General activity, technology, facilities, new-family and graduation fees · arts, instrument or production fees · testing fees · a required device purchase · a costed summer coursework requirement. Silence on a fee schedule most likely means the charge does not apply, but confirm rather than assume.

Goal 5.1 of the published strategic plan commits the school to "conduct a comprehensive audit of the full costs of a Latin education, including tuition, trips, extracurricular programs, and out of school experiences." A family asking these questions is asking for something the school has already said it wants to produce.

Clarity. One application covers all children in a family. Designed for a phone and stated to take 30 minutes or less, with progress saved and resumed. Federal 1040 and W2 documents transfer automatically from the IRS after a verification step. The family application guide and platform quick-reference are published in English and Spanish.

The school defines need plainly: "the difference between tuition and the family's ability to pay for tuition." It states it "strives to cover 100% of the identified family's need" — an aim, not a guarantee, and not read here as a promise of any particular award. A Financial Aid Committee conducts the review and decision.

The published financial aid questions-and-answers document states an applying family can expect "a need-blind decision" — the clearest available statement that applying for aid is described as not affecting the admission decision.

Nine financial aid documents are published — guiding principles, commonly-asked questions, scholarships, the Clarity guides in English and Spanish, and a non-custodial parent waiver form. All sit on a third-party document service our tools could not open; only each summary line was readable. These are public and open fine in an ordinary browser. The renewal policy, appeals process and mid-year change-of-circumstance policy are very likely inside them, and are recorded as not retrieved rather than not published.

What it costs a family to file (aid platforms commonly charge a fee; the pages do not say whether one applies) · when aid decisions arrive relative to admission decisions · the confidentiality policy — who inside the school sees a family's financial information, and how long it is retained.

The 2024–25 financial aid process presentation describes the mechanism in more detail: the platform produces an Estimated Family Contribution, demonstrated need is published tuition minus that contribution, and a Financial Aid Committee decides. It names School and Student Services as the 2024–25 platform against Clarity today — a change of platform between years, not a contradiction. Surfaced through a research pass and not re-read at the source.

Total awarded $3.25M, aid as 6% of operational budget, average award $17,900, and 36 students across 17 endowed scholarships — all 2024–25, all on the tuition page. Separately: $3.125M offered in 2021–22 (strategic plan) and an undated "over three million dollars" (policies page). These are not added together and are not a trend — different pages, different years, and in one case no year at all.

The measure most families look for first is published — but on the strategic-plan site, a separate web property from admissions, as "14% of students receiving some funding." The denominator is clear and it is the right one: a share of students, not of applicants or filers, which are different and usually larger-looking numbers. The year is not. The sentence sits beside a figure tagged 2021–22, but adjacency is not a year tag and is not treated as one here.

The median award — the published $17,900 average must not be read as a typical or middle award · the award range, smallest to largest · whether any need-based award covers full tuition · how many students or families receive need-based aid overall (the count of 36 is endowed scholarships only).

We normally divide the average award by the same year's tuition to show how far a typical award reaches. The average is published for 2024–25; the tuition table has moved to 2026–27; and the 2024–25 published rates could not be retrieved. Dividing across those years would produce a figure describing no actual year, so it is left out rather than printed precise and meaningless.

Beyond tuition assistance, the school states that for its highest-need families it also covers supplemental support for school essentials, including lunch. The scope beyond lunch, and the threshold at which a family qualifies, are not published.

Charlotte Latin Schools Inc, EIN 56-0944449, FY ending June 2024: grants to domestic individuals $3M, total revenue $55.7M, total expenses $55.1M. This is aggregate institutional accounting filed with the IRS, not a school statement about its aid programme — it runs one to two years behind the current school year and its definition of a grant need not match what the school counts as tuition assistance. Context only; it does not close the gaps above.

Charlotte Latin states it is the only Malone Scholars School in North Carolina, endowed by the Malone Family Foundation to provide scholarships to highly capable students. The foundation's published basis for selecting its fifty partner schools nationally: academic calibre, quality of staff, accommodations for gifted and talented students, strong Advanced Placement and enrichment programmes, attention to individual student needs, and an economically, culturally, ethnically and socially diverse population.

The scholarships document states that the Malone, Sunny, Thrive, Wall and Kearney scholarships cover additional school expenses beyond tuition, that they are Middle and Upper School awards, and that they are made at the time of admission. That is a meaningful distinction: a scholarship reaching costs beyond tuition addresses precisely the gap Section 02 describes. (Document summary only — the body could not be opened.)

For each named fund the public record does not state the award amount, how many are awarded in a year, the eligibility criteria, or whether a scholarship can be held alongside need-based aid. The one quantitative anchor is that 36 students held awards from 17 endowed scholarships in 2024–25 — a reach figure, not an award size. Ask which scholarships an applicant would be considered for, whether consideration is automatic, and whether an award reduces need-based aid.

Sibling discounts · employee tuition remission · clergy, military or first-responder discounts · an indexed or variable tuition programme · whether merit awards may be held together with need-based aid. Each is recorded as not published rather than as not offered.

The endowed gifts page lists a wider set of named scholarship and award funds beyond the five above, including funds supporting Lower School students, a student-athlete fund, and an alumni-established fund. Surfaced through a research pass and not re-read at the source, so no count of funds is stated here. Fund names are institutional proper nouns; no recipient is named anywhere in this report.

A service charge of 1.5% per month, which the school states as 18% annual, is added to tuition charges not received or postmarked by their due date and to any unpaid balance. All tuition must be paid before students may attend classes following the respective due dates. Miscellaneous charges must be paid before re-enrolment is offered, report cards issued, diplomas awarded or transcripts released.

Hawks' Club fees are billed per semester rather than with tuition: the first-semester fee (August–December) on 23 September 2026, the second (January–May) on 20 January 2027.

The public pages do not set out the withdrawal or mid-year departure obligation, any refund schedule, or the point at which full-year tuition becomes payable regardless of attendance. The optional Tuition Refund Plan at 0.53% of tuition implies some obligation survives a withdrawal — that is what such plans exist to cover — but the underlying terms are not on the public record. This is the single most consequential unpublished item in this report; read the contract carefully before signing.

Third-party tuition lenders or financing partners · any prepayment or single-payment discount · any prepaid multi-year or tuition-lock programme.