Tuition Costs At Twin Cities’ Private High Schools: US News

TWIN CITIES, MN — Parents choosing a private high school education for their children have many to choose from in the Twin Cities metro area, according to a new report from U.S. News & World Report.

Because of limited data availability, the schools weren’t evaluated in the same manner as public institutions in the 2024 Best High Schools ranking. The news outlet’s inventory shows tuition costs, the student-teacher ratio, total enrollment and minority student enrollment.

Private schools in the Twin Cities metro include:

Breck School

• Private, Christian
• PK-12
• Golden Valley, MN
• $22,890 yearly tuition

Benilde-St. Margaret's

• Private, Catholic
• 7-12
• St. Louis Park, MN
• $14,155 yearly tuition

There are more than 30,000 private schools in the country, according to U.S. News. Private school enrollment among all grades is declining, down to 4.7 million students enrolled in private schools in 2019, compared to 5.7 million in 2019, U.S. News said in a previous report analyzing publicly available data.

That coincides with efforts by lawmakers in dozens of states to expand school choice laws that direct public funding to private educational opportunities, according to FutureEd, an independent think tank at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

After a flurry of school choice laws in 2023 — a “landmark year for school choice,” EdFuture said — lawmakers in 34 states introduced or pre-filed at least 114 private-school choice bills.