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Admissions
Grade-by-Grade Application Guide — K · 1–8
One portal. Everything runs through FACTS: set up your FACTS admission account, then submit the application and the application fee from it. There is no Ravenna at Trinity — if you hold a Ravenna account for another Charlotte school, it does not reach this one.
Three different grade splits, and they do not line up. The deadlines break once, at Kindergarten to Grade 1. The test changes twice more — WPPSI-IV in K and Grade 1, the WISC-V in Grades 2 to 4, the ISEE in Grades 5 to 8. And the CAIS consortium administers the testing for K to 4 only; Grades 5 to 8 sit outside it entirely. Check all three against your child’s grade rather than assuming one split covers them.
Same spine in both bands — visit → apply through FACTS with the fee → recommendations and transcripts → testing → Wildcat Visit Day → decision. What changes is the calendar, which test your child sits, and who administers it. Every family who completes the process is invited to a Follow-Up Conference with the admission team, whatever the outcome.
Visit — an open house, or your own tourFall 2026
Two open houses cover Kindergarten, both in Trinity’s Center for Community and the Arts: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026 and Nov. 5, 2026, each 9:30–11:00 a.m. A third runs Dec. 1, 2026 — confirm its start time, which the school’s two pages give differently. Individual tours are not published by policy: book from an admission team member’s own calendar, or ask the Admission Office.
Submit the application + fee through FACTSby Jan 2
Set up your FACTS admission account, then submit the application and the application fee from it. The fee amount is not published anywhere — there is not a single dollar figure on the admission process page — so confirm it with the Admission Office before you budget. Kindergarten applies two weeks ahead of every other grade, and hears back six weeks earlier.
Teacher recommendationby Feb 1
Teacher recommendations are required for all K-8 applicants. The two-recommendation rule — an English teacher and a math teacher — applies to rising 6–8 applicants only, so a Kindergarten applicant is not covered by it. The school does not state how many are required at this age; ask when you apply. Transcripts are required for 1st–8th grade applicants, which does not reach Kindergarten.
Book the WPPSI-IV — with one psychologist, and one onlyby Feb 1
Kindergarten and Grade 1 applicants take the WPPSI-IV through the CAIS consortium — seven schools, one shared testing arrangement. Book with one psychologist only, at $275, paid to them rather than to Trinity. Your child must be four or older at testing, which may be done only once in twelve months; cancelling within 48 hours forfeits the fee. CAIS also requires an interview with each child, usually November–February. Results reach you and the schools you designate as percentile ranges, not raw scores.
Wildcat Visit Dayfrom November
Applicants are invited to register from November. A rising Kindergartner attends a morning observation session rather than a full day — the full day on campus is for rising 1st–8th graders.
Decision → the Follow-Up ConferenceFri Feb 26, 2027
Decisions are emailed on Friday, February 26, 2027. Trinity invites every family who completes the application process — not only admitted ones — to sit down with the admission team "to share what we have learned about their child through the process and help the family discern how Trinity Episcopal School can best partner with the family in support of their child."
"Psychologists will report to the schools any indication that a child has been coached, tutored, or re-tested. Any indication of the aforementioned will invalidate your application to any CAIS school." Not just Trinity — all seven: Charlotte Christian, Charlotte Country Day, Charlotte Latin, Charlotte Preparatory, Covenant Day, Providence Day and Trinity Episcopal. You sign a Test Validity Verification Form at the psychologist’s office.
Prospective families apply for financial support by February 1, 2027 — the same day Kindergarten supporting materials are due. ⚠️ The school’s admission-process page still prints the 2026 date; its tuition page says 2027. Confirm it with the office. Note too that the $275 CAIS testing fee goes to the psychologist, not to Trinity, so it falls due before any aid decision.
CROSS-BANDExactly what changes between bands
| Kindergarten | Grades 1–8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Application due | Jan 2, 2027 | Jan 15, 2027 |
| Supporting materials due | Feb 1, 2027 | Feb 26, 2027 |
| Decisions emailed | Friday, Feb 26, 2027 | Friday, Apr 9, 2027 |
| Testing instrument | WPPSI-IV | Gr 1: WPPSI-IV · Gr 2–4: WISC-V · Gr 5–8: ISEE |
| Who administers the test | A CAIS consortium psychologist — $275 booked by you | Gr 1–4: a CAIS psychologist, $275 · Gr 5–8: the ISEE, outside CAIS, registered by you |
| Recommendations | Required — the school does not state a number | Required at every grade; rising 6–8 submit two, English and math. Transcripts required 1–8 |
| Wildcat Visit Day | A morning observation session | A full day on campus |
| The CAIS invalidation rule | Applies — coaching, tutoring or re-testing invalidates the application at all seven CAIS schools | Applies to Grades 1–4 only. Grades 5–8 sit outside CAIS entirely |
| Constant in both bands | The FACTS portal · an application fee whose amount is not published anywhere on the site · teacher recommendations · the Follow-Up Conference, offered to every family who completes the process whatever the decision · and the CAIS guarantee that no member school requires a contract before the consortium’s common reply deadline | |
The admission office
750 East 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 · admissions 980-207-5898 · admissions@tescharlotte.orgCourse Offerings
K – Grade 5Lower School Courses
Trinity publishes Lower School work as named curricula and weekly enrichment subjects rather than as named, individually-described courses. The rows below are those subjects and curricula as the school states them. No Lower School course catalog exists — the only PDF published site-wide is a philanthropy guide.
The school "develops mathematicians in Kindergarten through Grade 5 using the Math in Focus 2020 curriculum, which is the U.S. edition of the highly effective Singapore Math approach."
The Lower School "utilizes the Amplify Science units of study as its core curriculum" for science.
Social Studies is taught through Storypaths units across the Lower School grades.
Covers phonemic and phonological awareness in Kindergarten through Grade 2, with word study continuing through Grade 5.
All students take Spanish as an enrichment class, learning through the five Cs of the National World Language Standards and exploring the culture of 20 Spanish-speaking countries; heritage speakers in grades 4-5 access the Anthologia program at school and at home.
The school's only named academic facility, and a weekly Lower School enrichment. It is a STEM space, not an arts space.
The Lower School's weekly physical education and wellness enrichment.
One of the six weekly Lower School enrichments.
One of the six weekly Lower School enrichments.
Bible lessons and the study of world religions, taught K–8 and running weekly in the Lower School.
Facilitated by Digital Learning Catalysts, with 1:1 iPads for all students K-1 and 1:1 Chromebooks for all students Gr. 2-8. Published in the School Profile only — it appears on no /academics/ page.
Curriculum and community partnerships, a Community Garden and an Aquaponics Program.
In the last trimester of 5th Grade, students split into gender-based small groups to develop personal leadership skills for the transition to Middle School.
Grades 6 – 8Middle School Courses
The 6th-grade course. Instruction across the department is "grounded in a problem-based core curriculum rooted in content and practice standards."
The grade-level 7th-grade course.
The accelerated 7th-grade course. Students are placed in grade-level and accelerated courses "based on specific performance criteria" — the criteria themselves are not published.
One of five distinct 8th-grade mathematics courses the school offers.
One of five distinct 8th-grade mathematics courses the school offers.
One of five distinct 8th-grade mathematics courses. The school states no credit arrangement for it.
One of five distinct 8th-grade mathematics courses the school offers.
The furthest of the five 8th-grade mathematics courses. The school states no credit arrangement for it.
"Students will graduate from Trinity having completed Spanish I, a high school level course, and will be ready for Spanish II should they choose to continue studying the language."
"Middle School students choose between Latin and Spanish, completing Level 1, a high school course, by the end of their 8th Grade year."
The 6th-grade year of the Social Studies course of study.
The 7th-grade year of the Social Studies course of study.
The 8th-grade year of the Social Studies course of study.
Published as a subject strand across the three Middle School years; no per-grade course names are given.
An integrated science program across grades 6-8. No per-grade course names are published.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
A weekly enrichment. A 6th Grade technology class has been announced as an addition, "as digital learning catalysts teach students how to use AI to create code and build, not just how to input questions."
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
Named in the School Profile's enrichment list. Their contents are published nowhere — the phrase appears in the profile PDF and on no page of the website.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
One of the 13 weekly Middle School enrichments listed in the School Profile.
"6th Grade students choose from one of two ensembles: choir or band." Ensembles perform at chapels, commencement, and venues outside of school.
"7th and 8th Grade students who decide to continue in an ensemble can choose Advanced Band or Advanced Choir."
Middle School students "may also choose to take the drama elective within their schedule, or participate in the winter play or spring musical."
Each student belongs to a Koinonia with 10-12 other Middle School students and one adult leader; groups gather every morning for check-in and twice a week for activities.
Student Clubs
Affinity & Identity Groups
Five named student affinity groups, each with its grade range and a published purpose statement, plus four parent groups — under a Director of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging.
Service & Civic Engagement
Every grade from Kindergarten to 7 has a standing, year-long partnership with a named community organization — twelve of them — and 8th grade turns it into advocacy. This is curricular rather than a volunteer club: "Each grade level partners with a community organization whose mission and services are related to curricular goals… Year-long partnerships create the possibility of relationship formation that transforms charity into mutual service among neighbors."
Kindergarten and grade 1 partner with Nourish Up — Kindergarten delivers Meals on Wheels weekly, grade 1 visits the food pantry at First Presbyterian Church and leads the school food drive each November. Grade 2 works with InReach, whose customers visit Trinity monthly for gardening, art, music and self-advocacy. Grade 3 partners with Roof Above / the Urban Ministry Center. Grade 4 with The Epiphany School of Charlotte, grade 5 with Galilee Ministries of East Charlotte. Grade 6 — "Feeding Our Neighbors" — works with the 8th Street Friendship Garden, the Charlotte Community ToolBank and NourishUp; grade 7 — "Understanding Our Neighbors" — with Crisis Assistance Ministry, Hope Haven and the First Ward Child Development Center.
Third graders walk a mile to the Urban Ministry Center once a month for art, soccer, singing with the Urban Ministry Choir, and clothing drives. The walk is the point, and the school says so: "We like to say that Trinity has the longest hallways in Charlotte as our campus community extends into the heart of Uptown Charlotte. Each day you will see our students and teachers walking to and engaging with community organizations as part of our academic program and service-learning partnerships."
Eighth grade maps its community, researches an issue all year in the Social Issues Seminar, then travels to Washington, DC to advocate on it. The 2024 group met Rep. Jeff Jackson at the Capitol and carried five issues: gun-violence victim resources, economic mobility, minimum wage, affordable housing and healthcare cost transparency. Assistant Head of School Stephanie Griffin: "This is a trip, at its heart and soul, that’s all about advocacy."
Honor Societies
Two state championships in one year, and a three-peat: the Middle School Mock Trial team won the North Carolina Bar Foundation competition in 2023, 2024 and 2025. Trinity’s recognition record is competitive and civic rather than chartered — there is no honor-society chapter here, there is a courtroom, a debate circuit, and an Honor Council its own students elect.
| Society | Division | What it recognizes | Feeds from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mock Trial — NC Bar Foundation state champions, 2023 · 2024 · 2025 | Middle School | Three consecutive state championships in the North Carolina Bar Foundation’s Middle School competition, coached by Jennifer Bader. The second title was won at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse against five other middle school teams. | the classroom |
| Speech & Debate — state champions the same year | Middle School | "The speech and debate and mock trial teams both won their respective state championships this year." Speech & Debate is simultaneously a weekly 7th-grade enrichment and a competitive team, so it is both a class and a club. | the classroom |
| Honor Council | Middle School | Members are "elected by their grade level peers in Middle School" and are responsible for encouraging integrity, building a community of trust, and holding fellow students to the pledge. Eighth graders "often find themselves… leading honor councils". | the whole school |
Club Catalog & Overview
17 clubs across both divisions. Filter by interest.
The Arts
The K–8 Arts Ladder
General music for every child through 4th grade, then a single choice — chorus or band — that carries a student to Advanced Band or Advanced Choir by 8th.
Theatre & Grade-Level Productions
A dramatic or musical performance at every grade level in Lower School, plus a drama elective and a winter/spring production in Middle School.
Music & the Honors Pipeline
Two ensembles, one choice, no audition — chorus or band from 5th grade, continuing as Advanced Band or Advanced Choir in 7th and 8th. An ensemble every interested student can join, and a performance calendar that reaches outside the building.
Studio to Gallery
A named choice-based pedagogy — Teaching Artistic Behaviors — and the one area where Trinity wins things outside the building. Student work reached two external Charlotte venues in 2026, the Visual Arts Director took a 2025 CATO Excellence in Teaching Award as one of six educators recognized across the Charlotte area, and 5th grade has run an art exchange with students in Ghana since 2023-24.
Faculty: Jen Rankey-Zona is Visual Arts Director and a founding teacher of the school; Shelby Hawk is the art teacher — "I am truly so honored to teach these wonderful artists."
Visit Checklist
A real arts programme for a K–8 school, strongest in the studio: a named pedagogy, two external exhibitions in one year, an award-winning director, and an international exchange.
Sports
Sports Offered
7 sports across 10 season-teams, with no skill-based cuts — "If a student wants to play one of the sports we offer then we create that opportunity." A K–8 middle school programme in the Queen City Conference, NOT the GCMSAA that the larger Charlotte independents play in. Teams are fielded by grade band — 7th/8th, 8th, 6th/7th — never as varsity, JV or A/B squads. Motto: "Play Hard, Play Smart, Play Together, and Have Fun".
Selected results, not a record — Trinity has published exactly two seasons, Fall 2023 and Winter 2024, all of it Queen City Conference play. WINTER 2024: "For the first time in school history, the Trinity 8th Grade boys' basketball team won the Queen City Conference championship on Feb. 8 to cap their undefeated season." The title was clinched in a 54–23 win at home over Carmel Christian. FALL 2023: the girls cross country team was "conference champion for the 4th year running, ranked first among independent schools in North Carolina, and had 7 runners named all-conference." Alongside it, the 7th/8th Grade boys soccer team won both the conference title and the tournament championship; the 8th Grade volleyball team tied for first; and boys cross country placed third, with 3 runners in the top 15 and 1 named all-conference.
Coaching: Pedigree & Continuity
One name carries this programme: David Martin, Athletic Director and head basketball coach since 2004 — a twenty-year tenure that ended in the school's first championship. Athletic Director: David Martin, who is also the only athletics staff member Trinity lists anywhere. Assistant Coach Jason Martin works alongside him on the basketball staff.
Martin has helmed the basketball team since its beginning in 2004 when he joined Trinity. By his count, some 250 students have played on the 8th Grade team in that time — the school's own hedge, and it should be carried rather than presented as a counted figure. There had been many close brushes with a championship before the Feb. 8, 2024 win: "For 20 daggum years, I have thought about this moment pretty much nonstop," Martin said. "I can't explain how much energy has gone into trying to win this tournament championship over the last 20 years." He is Athletic Director as well as head coach, which is what a K–8 athletics department of this size looks like from the inside.
High School Placement
The Placement Program
Two high school counselors, one for public and independent schools and one for boarding — a structure the school added in 2023-24. Trinity frames the K–8 model as choosing a high school at the end of 8th grade rather than at the start of Kindergarten.
Where They Land
Ninety-five named high schools across 23 graduating classes — and ten of them have their own dossier here. This is the school’s own cumulative list for the Classes of 2004–2026, grouped by what each destination actually is. It is a list of names only: the school publishes no per-school counts and no per-year attribution, so no destination should be read as “N students went there”.
Indicates we have a dedicated school page on this portal — click the school name
Visit Checklist
High School Placement
After School
The Coverage Map
One K–8 program, Trinity Extended Day, runs from dismissal to 6:00 p.m. — and it is priced on household income rather than on how many days a week you use it. Four income bands run $105 to $380 a month, every drop-in tier has a reduced rate for families receiving financial support, and half days are free to monthly attendees. There is no morning care.
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The price on the bar is the monthly rate for a household over $90,000 — the top of four income bands, which start at $105/month under $30,000. Trinity does not price TED by days per week, so there is no days-per-week ladder to open; the full income table and the per-day rates are in the facts below.
A Day Inside + Enrichment
Dedicated homework time, art, board games and Fun Friday — with the Trinity Honor Code explicitly extended past the end of the school day. Paid enrichments run several days a week, led by a mix of Trinity faculty and outside contractors. The school names four examples and prices none of them.
"Building character, enriching lives, and having fun describe our Trinity Extended Day (TED) program" — "a safe, well-structured environment for every Trinity student." It offers "dedicated homework time" plus group projects and activities such as art, board games and Fun Friday, and students "are expected to adhere to the Trinity Honor Code while participating in Extended Day."
TED "also offers enrichment programs, for an additional fee, several days a week", led by "a combination of Trinity faculty/staff and independent contractors". The school gives these four as examples and adds "and more", so this is not the full roster — and it states no fee for any of them. Note that Trinity uses "enrichments" for two different things: these are the paid after-school add-ons, while the Lower and Middle School "Enrichments" pages list free curricular subjects.
| Class | Day | Grades | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chess club Named by the school as an example of a TED enrichment; day, grade band and fee are not published. | — | K–8 | — |
| Music lessons Named by the school as an example of a TED enrichment; day, grade band and fee are not published. | — | K–8 | — |
| Karate Named by the school as an example of a TED enrichment; day, grade band and fee are not published. | — | K–8 | — |
| Cheer club Named by the school as an example of a TED enrichment; day, grade band and fee are not published. | — | K–8 | — |
Verdict & Visit Checklist
The most deliberately affordable after-school program on this roster — income-scaled monthly rates, a reduced rate on every drop-in tier, and free half days for monthly families.
Summer Programs
The Camp Catalog
75 named camps across six weeks for rising K–8, from a $225 half-day craft camp to a $785 three-week academic session — and open to any child in the community, not only Trinity families. Camps run 15 June to 24 July 2026 on the uptown campus. Half days are 9 a.m.–12 p.m. or 1–4 p.m., full days 9 a.m.–4 p.m., and two of the six weeks are four-day weeks.
| Camp | When | Grades | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMMP: Mathematics, Robotics and CodingSTEM & coding The CAMMP vendor strand’s full-day maths, robotics and coding camp. Financial aid does not apply to CAMMP. | Mon–Thu 9-4p June 15-18 | Rising 1-6 | $395 |
| Pixels and Paints (girls only)Arts & making A full-day digital-and-traditional art camp, one of two gender-restricted camps on the slate. | Mon–Thu 9-4p June 15-18 | Rising 3-5 | $390 |
| Trashion FashionArts & making Making wearable fashion from reclaimed materials — at $225, the lowest price point on the slate. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 15-18 | Rising 2-5 | $225 |
| Wildcat Basketball AcademySports & outdoors Half-day basketball skills on the school’s own courts. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 15-18 | Rising 2-6 | $245 |
| Jumping BeansGames & enrichment A movement-and-play camp pitched at the youngest campers on the slate. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 15-18 | Rising K | $235 |
| Wildcat Cycling AdventureSports & outdoors A half-day cycling camp for the older Middle School bands. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 15-18 | Rising 4-8 | $255 |
| TES Academy: Camp Read (and Write) A LotTES Academy Trinity’s own academic strand — literacy work for the early grades. Financial aid does not apply to TES Academy camps. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 15-18 | Rising 1-3 | $235 |
| Roblox CodersSTEM & coding Black Rocket’s Roblox coding strand; its afternoon companion is Roblox Makers at the same price. | Mon–Fri 9-12p June 22-26 | Rising 3-8 | $265 |
| Cartooning, Anime and Character Design with ProcreateArts & making A full-day digital illustration camp for the Middle School band. | Mon–Fri 9-4p June 22-26 | Rising 5-8 | $465 |
| Theater and ImprovPerforming arts A full-day performing camp, and one of the three widest grade bands on the slate. | Mon–Fri 9-4p June 22-26 | Rising 2-8 | $400 |
| P3 Soccer LabSports & outdoors Coach Pedro’s P3 Soccer strand. The same week also runs a Rising-K-only half-day at $295. | Mon–Fri 9-4p June 22-26 | Rising 1-6 | $465 |
| Tennis 101Sports & outdoors Half-day tennis instruction spanning the whole Middle School band. | Mon–Fri 9-12p June 22-26 | Rising 3-8 | $315 |
| Chemistry of SlimeSTEM & coding One of four unattributed science camps; its afternoon companion is Candy Chemistry at the same price. | Mon–Fri 9-12p June 22-26 | Rising 1-4 | $245 |
| TES Academy: Summer LEAP (1st of 3-week session)TES Academy The slate’s highest price and its only multi-week session — the $785 covers all three weeks. By invitation only, and students must be enrolled at Trinity for 2026-27. | Mon–Thu 8:30-12p June 29-Jul 2 (of 3 weeks) | TES 1-3 | $785 |
| Kamp HUROP: Think Higher - The Level Up Leadership Lab (boys only)Games & enrichment A Middle School leadership camp, and the second of the two gender-restricted camps. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 29-Jul 2 | Rising 5-8 | $310 |
| STEM Champions AcademySTEM & coding A full-day STEM camp; it runs again in the June 22-26 week at $425 for the five-day version. | Mon–Thu 9-4p June 29-Jul 2 | Rising 4-8 | $395 |
| Spy AcademyGames & enrichment A half-day code-and-clues camp; its afternoon companion is Secret Agent Lab at the same price. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 29-Jul 2 | Rising 1-6 | $235 |
| TES Academy: Middle School Math LaunchTES Academy A grade-specific maths bridge; separate sections run for grade 6 here and for grades 7 and 8 in the July 6-10 week at $275. | Mon–Thu 9-12p June 29-Jul 2 | Rising 6 | $235 |
| Hogwarts ExpressGames & enrichment A full-day themed camp in the biggest week of the summer, which carries 17 camps. | Mon–Fri 9-4p July 6-10 | Rising 3-8 | $445 |
| Babysitting Bootcamp/ABC's of First AidGames & enrichment The only camp on the slate with a mixed daily schedule — 9-12p Monday to Wednesday, a full day Thursday, and 9-12p Friday. | Mon–Fri 9-12p M-W, 9-4p Th., 9-12p Fri. July 6-10 | Rising 4-8 | $355 |
| Comic Creations - MangaArts & making Runs as two separate full-day sections the same week, rising 2-5 and rising 6-8, each at $425. | Mon–Fri 9-4p July 6-10 | Rising 2-5 | $425 |
| A.I. Designers & DevelopersSTEM & coding Black Rocket’s afternoon AI strand; its morning companion is Minecraft Designers at the same price. | Mon–Fri 1-4p July 6-10 | Rising 3-8 | $265 |
| TES Academy: Math-a-Palooza - The Multi-Sensory Math ExperienceTES Academy A single-grade multi-sensory maths camp in Trinity’s own academic strand. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 6-10 | Rising 3 | $275 |
| Master Chess CampGames & enrichment The widest grade band on the whole slate — rising K through 8 in a single camp. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 13-17 | Rising K-8 | $255 |
| P3 Soccer LabSports & outdoors The full-day P3 section; the same week runs a Rising-K-only half-day at $305. | Mon–Fri 9-4p July 13-17 | Rising 1-3 | $475 |
| Farm to ForkGames & enrichment A cooking-and-growing camp, one of the three widest grade bands on the slate. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 13-17 | Rising 2-8 | $265 |
| Drone AdventuresSTEM & coding Half-day drone flying and challenges; its afternoon companion is Virtual Reality: The Future is Now. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 13-17 | Rising 3-8 | $275 |
| Musical Theatre with Ms. J-JPerforming arts A half-day musical-theatre camp for the middle grades. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 13-17 | Rising 3-5 | $255 |
| Camp Independence Sr. - The Experience!Sports & outdoors Run by the Venture Outdoor Leadership program at UNC-Charlotte, and the second-highest price on the slate. Runs Monday and Tuesday only. | Mon–Tue 9-4p M-Tu July 20-24 | Rising 6-8 | $595 |
| Camp Independence - The Next Level!Sports & outdoors The younger Venture Outdoor Leadership section, also Monday and Tuesday only. | Mon–Tue 9-4p M-Tu July 20-24 | Rising 4-5 | $525 |
| Musical Theatre (in a week)!Performing arts A full-day camp mounting a show in five days, pitched at the youngest band. | Mon–Fri 9-4p July 20-24 | Rising K-2 | $455 |
| Yoga, Art, Music, Stories (YAMS)Arts & making Offered twice in the same week as identical morning and afternoon half-day sections. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 20-24 | Rising 1-5 | $255 |
| Queen City Quest - Unleashed!Games & enrichment A Charlotte-themed exploration camp, also offered as both a morning and an afternoon section. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 20-24 | Rising 1-6 | $275 |
| TES Academy: Fun with Numbers Camp: Building Blocks of Math and More!TES Academy Early-grades maths in Trinity’s own strand — for current or incoming 2026-27 TES students only. | Mon–Fri 9-12p July 20-24 | TES 1-2 | $275 |
The Summer Cost Planner
Six weeks, and Trinity’s 83 priced camps fall into five clean bands — pick one, set the weeks, and add the care a working family needs. Lunch is not sold at camp in any form: campers bring their own. And a half-day morning camper cannot buy after-care at all, which is the constraint most likely to break a plan.
| Camp tier | Per week |
|---|---|
21 camps. The band’s top price; it starts at $225. | $245 |
The largest band — 38 camps — and the slate’s median price. | $265 |
8 camps, including the four-day-week full-day sections. | $395 |
13 camps at 9 a.m.–4 p.m. — the standard five-day full-day rate. | $455 |
3 camps — the two Camp Independence sections and the three-week Summer LEAP. | $595 |
Both care options together are $175/week — the sum of the two toggles, so bundling saves nothing. ⚠️ No after-care for half-day morning campers: a 9 a.m.–12 p.m. camp ends at noon.
4ORMORE takes $25 off each camp at four or more weeks of full-day camps (8 half-days count as the equivalent). ⚠️ Per camper, not per family — two children with two weeks each do not qualify.
Financial aid excludes CAMMP, TES Academy and Black Rocket camps — most of the coding slate and the whole academic strand. Aid is first-come, first-served; non-Trinity families submit two most recent tax statements.
Lunch is bring-your-own — no FLIK option, unlike the school year. A camper stacking two half-days stays on campus for lunch and recess before the 1:00 session. The camp "strives to be nut-free"; snacks required, one per half day.
Late pick-up: five-minute grace, then $5/minute — after 12:05 (half day), 4:05 (full day), 5:35 (after-camp care). Two or more in one week could mean non-refunded removal.
Financial Aid & Tuition
In-Depth Report
Tuition & Financial Aid — Deep Dive Report
Two deadlines, two months apart. Returning families apply for support by 1 Dec 2026; families starting in fall 2027 have until 1 Feb 2027. Using the wrong one misses the date by two months.
K–8 aid only. Trinity is a K–8 school with no upper division, so every figure here is elementary and middle school tuition assistance. Not financial advice.
Meters show how fully each section could be answered from published evidence — a disclosure score, not a rating of the school.
The Tuition Table — Two Bands, Moving in Lockstep
Every dollar figure for Trinity lives in a Google Doc titled "Cost of Attendance for 2026-27", not on the tuition page itself. The tuition page carries the bands and the deadlines; the doc carries the fees.
Two bands cover all nine grades. Four years of first-party history, recovered from the school's own archived tuition page: 2023-24 $22,605* / $24,312*, 2024-25 $23,961 / $25,771 2025-26 $25,400 / $27,320 and 2026-27 $26,670 / $28,690. Year-over-year that is +6.0% → +6.0% → +5.0%, identically for both bands — they have moved in lockstep and have never diverged. The asterisk on the 2023-24 figures is the school's own; the footnote it points to was not captured.
Beyond Tuition — The Real Cost of Attendance
Trinity prices the activity fee per grade, one of very few schools on this roster to do so. It runs from $210 in Kindergarten to $1,045 in 8th grade, rising at grade 4 ($545) and again at grade 6 ($965). What the fee buys is not stated.
The Cost of Attendance document states it outright: "FLIK is not reduced for families receiving financial support." A Middle School annual meal plan is $1,520 at full price whatever a family's award. The school does note it "is more economical to purchase a 20-meal block than pay $11.5 per lunch," and that above three lunches a week the annual plan is cheapest.
The Books column of the Cost of Attendance document shows a run of dashes for every grade. The document uses words when it means see-elsewhere — the Lunch and TED columns read "Options in chart below" and "Based on income in chart below" — and dashes when it means a null, and it is titled "Cost of Attendance". So no book charge is listed for any grade. The document never writes the word "included", so neither does this report.
Aid Process and Timeline
ALL AID IS NEED-BASEDThis is the single most consequential date on the page and it is easy to get wrong, because the two deadlines sit near each other on the same tuition page. A returning family that works from the 1 Feb prospective-family date is two months late. The school states the basis plainly: "Financial awards are based on demonstrated need as assessed by Clarity," and "The application for financial support has no bearing on admission."
What the Numbers Disclose
A Second Route — the NC Opportunity Scholarship
Trinity runs need-based support and points separately at the state scholarship. No merit scholarship, named endowed scholarship, or academic award appears anywhere on the site — every dollar of the school's own aid is need-based. Whether a family can hold an Opportunity Scholarship alongside Trinity support, and whether one offsets the other, is not published.