EFA and First Lutheran School
In 2024-25, 43 students at First Lutheran School used an Education Freedom Account, about 57% of the roughly 75 enrolled. That puts it on the state's participating-school list.
Of those EFA students, 84% continued in the program the next school year and 79% stayed at First Lutheran School. Statewide, schools kept 84% of their EFA students on average. Students who graduated count as leaving.
On the nationally norm-referenced tests participating schools must give, First Lutheran School's EFA students averaged the 66th percentile in math and the 67th in reading, above the national median of 50. Statewide, EFA students averaged the 57th and 59th.
Families paid $142,937 to First Lutheran School from EFA accounts in the spring 2024-25 transactions the report covers (fall transactions aren't broken out by provider).
In the federal Private School Survey (2021-22), the school reported 73 students, 15 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-teacher ratio of about 4.8:1.
Paying the balance
Church schools often offer member, sibling and staff discounts. Ask whether they still apply when part of the bill is paid from an EFA, and which fees (books, uniforms, technology) the school invoices through ClassWallet.
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Questions to ask the school
- How do you bill EFA families: directly through ClassWallet each quarter, or do we pay and get reimbursed?
- What is the full cost for my child's grade, including registration, books, uniforms and fees, and what's left after the $7,208 account?
- Which discounts and aid apply on top of the account?
- Which nationally norm-referenced test do you give, and will you share my child's results?