Providence Day School tuition

Providence Day School tuition for the 2026-2027 school year is $25,510 for transitional kindergarten, $28,010 for kindergarten, $32,960 for grades 1 to 5 and $36,325 for grades 6 to 12, according to the school's tuition and financial assistance page, read November 5, 2026. A $2,500 non-refundable deposit secures a place.

How much is Providence Day School tuition?

Providence Day charges four tuition rates for 2026-27: $25,510 for transitional kindergarten, $28,010 for kindergarten, $32,960 for grades 1 to 5 and $36,325 for grades 6 to 12. The rates are per student, per year. Middle School and Upper School share one rate, so a family pays the top figure for seven years. The school's page states that tuition is subject to change for the 2027-2028 school year.

Source: Providence Day School, Tuition and Financial Assistance, 2026-2027.

Providence Day is an independent, college preparatory day school for transitional kindergarten through grade 12 at 5800 Sardis Road in southeast Charlotte. It was founded in September 1970, according to its Wikipedia entry, and the school's admissions page reports an 8:1 student to faculty ratio.

What does Providence Day tuition include?

Five items are covered by the 2026-27 rates of $25,510 to $36,325, per the school's page: student iPads and all technology costs, most class field trips, all textbooks including AP textbooks, AP exam fees, and all Lower School student supplies. Charlotte Latin, by comparison, includes textbooks through grade 5 and bills them as an additional expense in grades 6 to 12.

The page also names what a family pays on top of tuition: 8th and 12th grade field trips; club travel, performing and musical arts competition travel and athletic tournament travel; P.E. uniforms; graphing calculators; tutoring services, Extended Day and Clubhouse; transportation; and FLIK Dining, which the page says incurs an additional cost. Providence Day does not publish prices for those extras on the tuition page, and it notes that financial assistance may be available for some of them. The $2,500 enrollment deposit is non-refundable, is due with the signed agreement, and is credited toward tuition. The balance can be paid in full or in 3, 10 or 12 installments.

How does Providence Day compare with Charlotte Latin, Country Day and Charlotte Christian?

Providence Day's $36,325 rate for grades 9 to 12 is the second highest of the four schools compared here for 2026-27, $175 below Charlotte Latin School and $2,250 above Charlotte Country Day School. The order changes in grades 6 to 8, where Providence Day is the highest of the four by $1,125. Charlotte Christian School, a faith-based school, publishes a range of $21,300 to $27,055.

Sources: each school's 2026-27 tuition page, listed below. Providence Day's transitional kindergarten is $25,510, Charlotte Latin's is $27,600 and Country Day's junior kindergarten is $24,515. Charlotte Christian publishes only its lowest and highest rates as text.

Two differences sit outside the table. Providence Day and Charlotte Latin each collect a flat $2,500 deposit, while Charlotte Country Day requires 10% of tuition at enrollment and Charlotte Christian charges a $1,500 deposit plus a $1,250 new family fee. And the rates do not buy the same things: Providence Day's includes textbooks, AP exam fees and a student iPad, so a line-by-line comparison with a school that bills books separately understates Providence Day's value by the cost of those items. The Charlotte Latin School tuition post carries that school's full fee schedule.

What does Providence Day cost from transitional kindergarten through 12th grade?

$472,595 is the tuition bill for a child who enters Providence Day in transitional kindergarten and graduates in 12th grade, at 2026-27 rates with no increases. The arithmetic: one year at $25,510, one year at $28,010, five years at $32,960 ($164,800) and seven years at $36,325 ($254,275). Starting in kindergarten cuts the total to $447,085. Upper School alone, grades 9 to 12, is $145,300.

The same arithmetic puts Charlotte Latin at $469,800 and Charlotte Country Day at $438,840 for the full run from the year before kindergarten. Providence Day comes out $2,795 above Charlotte Latin even though its Upper School rate is lower, because it charges the Upper School rate from grade 6.

Those totals are a floor, and the published record shows how fast the floor moves. Providence Day's Wikipedia entry lists a 2024-25 tuition range of $23,040 to $32,810. The 2026-27 range is $25,510 to $36,325. Both ends rose 10.7% in two school years, which works out to about 5.2% a year. Two children in grades 6 to 12 at the same time means $72,650 a year in tuition before the extras listed above. For a household weighing that against a mortgage, the Charlotte luxury market page shows what the neighborhoods near the school trade for.

How much financial aid does Providence Day give?

Approximately 21% of Providence Day families receive some form of financial assistance, according to the school's tuition page. The school does not publish its total aid budget or its average award. Applications run through the Clarity platform, carry a $65 fee, and take less than an hour with a 1040 tax return, W-2 forms and the most recent pay stub in hand.

Two financial assistance deadlines are posted: November 13, 2026, for current families and January 22, 2027, for prospective families. The prospective date falls one week after the January 15 application deadline for grades 1 to 12, so a new family files for admission first and for aid second.

For scale, Charlotte Country Day reports that about 20% of its students, 341 in all, receive $9.4 million a year, and Charlotte Latin reports $3.25 million awarded in 2024-25 at an average of $17,900. Charlotte Christian caps grants at 50% of tuition. A family that expects to qualify at Providence Day should treat January 22 as the last day, not the target.

Where do Providence Day families buy homes?

Providence Day's campus is in the 28270 ZIP code, and the school does not publish where its families live. The October 2026 closings report tracks five areas south and southeast of Uptown that bracket the campus: Cotswold, Foxcroft and Myers Park toward the city, and Matthews and Weddington toward Union County. The figures are Canopy MLS closed sales for the 180 days ending October 22, 2026.

Source: Canopy MLS closed residential sales by subdivision or town, April 25 to October 22, 2026, pulled by Mitch Boraski, MBA. Medians are withheld where an area had fewer than 10 sales.

Three readings. Myers Park is the deepest market on the list, with 102 closings above $1 million, and the Myers Park guide covers its streets in detail. Cotswold is the entry point to the close-in neighborhoods: 41 of its 70 sales topped $1 million, at a median $604,125 below Myers Park. Foxcroft is the scarce one, with 9 closings in 180 days and 7 of them above $1 million. To the southeast, Matthews is the volume market at 524 sales, and Weddington sold in a median 11 days.

Mitch Boraski listed and sold two Cotswold homes above $2 million: 1111 Rosewood Circle at $2,124,113 and 4104 Tangle Drive at $2,100,000. Each closed more than $740,000 above the Cotswold median in the report. Families comparing all three large independent schools can use the Charlotte private schools and luxury real estate guide, and the best school districts guide covers the public alternatives.

When are Providence Day applications due?

Eight dates between January 2 and April 16, 2027, make up the 2026-2027 admissions calendar on the school's admissions page. Transitional kindergarten and kindergarten decisions come six weeks before decisions for grades 1 to 12.

The window between a decision and a signed contract is seven days in both tracks, and the $2,500 deposit and signed agreement are what secure the place. That schedule sets the home search for a relocating family. A grades 1 to 12 decision on April 9 lands in the middle of the spring market, and the closings report shows Weddington and Matthews selling in a median 11 and 14 days. A buyer who waits for the decision before looking has one week to commit to the school and very little time to find the house.

The practical sequence is to file the application by January 15, get pre-approved in the same month, and have a buyer's agent tracking Cotswold, Foxcroft, Myers Park and the Matthews and Weddington corridor before April 9. Mitch Boraski, MBA, handles that search for relocating families; the schedule a meeting page books a call.