Tuition

Tuition is paid monthly for nine months from September through May.  The monthly tuition covers all class field trips and classroom supplies.  Please see below for an explanation of all additional fees or costs.  

Tuition 2024 – 2025

For the 2024-2025 school year, SCP is introducing a tiered tuition model. This gives families the freedom to select a pricing level that fits their budget, while also ensuring that our school is fully funded in a sustainable way. All families receive the same services from SCP regardless of the tier they opt into. Your choice is confidential. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions. Thank you for choosing our preschool!

Tier A: This is our base tuition, designed to cover the basic costs of preschool class when paired with schoolwide fundraising efforts to help balance our budget. This represents the level of tuition that we have historically charged.

Tier B: Opting into this tier helps ensure that the current SCP community can benefit from goods and services that make preschool life a little easier for all of us, such as paying professional cleaners to care for our classroom each week rather than asking SCP families to rotate deep cleaning duties.

Tier C: Opting into this tier supports current and future generations of the SCP community by ensuring that we can pay our teachers a competitive wage and keep our fundraising goals sustainable, allowing families and teachers to focus on the joys of preschool. With enough family support in Tier C, we can adapt our budget in ways that benefit every family at SCP and enable our school to move securely into the future.

Class Tier ATier BTier CSCC Fee
Discoverers 1-Day Option1$75/month $85/month $95/month $44 quarterly (2 credits)
Discoverers
$125/month $135/month $145/month $44 quarterly (2 credits)
Imagineers$200/month $210/month $220/month $66 quarterly (3 credits)
Inventors$200/month $210/month $220/month $66 quarterly (3 credits)
  1. Discoverers 1-Day Option is for children under age 2 at start of school year to begin Discoverers on Wednesdays only. ↩︎

SCP also prioritizes maintaining a scholarship fund so that all families can access co-op preschool. If none of the above tiers work for your family, please select the scholarship request option on our registration form, and we will be in touch with you.

Registration Fee: There is a $75 non-refundable deposit ($90 if registering two children) required to secure your spot once we have processed your initial registration form.

Sibling Discount: We offer discounted tuition for families with multiple children attending our preschool. Families will receive a 10% discount off of a second child’s monthly tuition, and a 50% discount off of a third child’s monthly tuition.

SCC Parent Education Fee: This is a quarterly fee of $22 per credit. This fee is paid directly to the preschool along with tuition three times per year (Sept, Dec, March) to cover the cost of credits received for each parent through Shoreline Community College. Caregivers are enrolled at SCC while their children are enrolled at preschool and receive benefits associated with being an SCC student while enrolled. Caregivers do not need to be admitted or enrolled at SCC prior to registering at preschool. After registering, you will receive a link to an online form to complete this process.

Electronic Payment Fees: Tuition may be paid via check, cash, ACH/e-check or credit card.  We are not able to absorb electronic payment processing fees into our budget at this time, so in order to accept credit cards and other e-payments we have to include an additional charge for the full processing fee at the time of payment. The fee for credit cards is 3.40% + $0.30 transaction fee. ACH/e-checks will have a $3.00/transaction fee.