A Saint Ursula Academy education is a wise investment in your daughter’s future. The Ursuline Sisters of Cincinnati were committed to providing a Saint Ursula education for qualified students and making this education affordable. We continue their legacy by partnering with families to make a Saint Ursula education financially possible. We are committed to ensuring that each young woman who enrolls at Saint Ursula Academy is able to persist and graduate without financial barriers. To accomplish this goal, we provide tuition assistance plans and financial aid to qualifying families. We also work closely with enrolled families on a one-on-one basis, understanding that life circumstances may change at a moment’s notice.
TUITION
A tuition deposit for the 2025-2026 year is required on enrollment day on January 31, 2025. This non-refundable deposit is to help ascertain the enrollment for the coming year and is applied directly towards tuition. A new student’s registration is not finalized until the enrollment contract is completed and returned, and the tuition deposit has been paid in full. The tuition at SUA is competitive with many other area schools. Tuition for the 2024-2025 school year is $16,350. All families must also pay the general fee of $1,300 per year; this fee includes the SUA laptop and help desk support.
Tuition Payment Options
1. Full payment - Parents may choose to pay the total tuition and fees prior to/or on August 1, 2025.
2. Eleven (11) Installments – Parents may choose to pay the total tuition and fees in eleven (11) monthly payments beginning in July 2025. No interest is charged for parents who choose to make installment payments.
There is an additional fee for students who are enrolled in the Educational Services Program (a program for girls with identified learning disabilities and ADHD). The 2024-2025 fee for the Educational Services Program is $5,600.
FACTS is the billing agent for all tuition accounts. FACTS will charge an annual service fee of $48 for those families who select the 11-month payment option. All tuition payments must be made by ACH withdrawal from a checking account. Saint Ursula Academy will assess a $25 service charge for any checks returned for insufficient funds. FACTS also reserves the right to assess a fee for checks returned for insufficient funds.
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Merit Scholarships
For the Class of 2029, the Saint Ursula Academy Admissions Committee will award academic merit scholarships based on High School Placement Test scores along with the student profile. Students who submit an application and High School Placement Test scores to Saint Ursula Academy by the deadline are automatically eligible for merit scholarships - a separate scholarship application is not required for academic merit scholarships.
The amounts awarded are based on the number of applicants scoring in the top ranges, which changes each year.
Students earning scores over the 90th percentile are generally offered an award ranging from $2,000 to our highest award of $7,500 (top 1%). Many of those awards are renewable over four years. We also offer one-year merit awards to students scoring from the 85-89th percentile. Renewable merit awards will remain in effect as long as the student maintains a cumulative grade point average above a 3.0 and remains in good standing with Saint Ursula Academy.
*Additional Scholarships
Saint Ursula will offer one-year awards of $1,000 which are not based on the High School Placement Test scores. 8th-grade girls must apply for admission and submit HSPT scores, however, these awards require a separate essay submission by November 26, 2024. To learn more about this award, please click
HERE to see the essay prompt and instructions on how to submit the essay. Families will be notified in their acceptance packet if they have been selected to receive an award.
Financial Assistance
All financial assistance awards are distributed in the form of financial aid grants, and these awards are granted based on the family’s demonstrated financial need. To be considered for financial aid grants, families must submit a financial aid application by Monday, November 25, 2024. LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY FACTS OR SAINT URSULA ACADEMY.
Financial aid application process:
1. Complete the online financial aid application through FACTS.
Create an account and follow the prompts to complete your online application.
You will need your 2023 W-2’s, federal income tax return and all related schedules filed with the IRS to complete this application.
Be sure to include Saint Ursula Academy on your application form.
The application has a $35 fee which must be paid online when you submit the application.
2. ALL Ohio residents are required to apply for the Ohio EdChoice Scholarship in order to be considered for need-based financial aid from the school. See below for more information about the Ohio EdChoice Program.
3. Financial aid will be awarded in early January 2025. You will be notified by mail as to the amount and form of financial aid. This notification will be sent out prior to the Class of 2029 enrollment day.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Jodi Clever, Vice President of Operations, at 961-3410 ext. 131.
Saint Ursula will continue to be a provider for the EdChoice Scholarship Program and the EdChoice Expansion Program for the 2025-2026 school year.
Ohio EdChoice Expansion Scholarship Program
The State of Ohio EdChoice Expansion Program underwent a significant transformation beginning in the 2023-2024 school year. Every Ohio family now qualifies. This new program is income-based and provides scholarships to students who reside in Ohio in grades K–12 based on household income level. Under the new program, scholarships for EdChoice Expansion are awarded based on family household income and are not tied to your resident school district. To be eligible to receive the scholarship for the 2025-2026 academic year, your family must complete the State of Ohio application. Applications opened on February 1, 2025.
Each family will be required to create an Ohio ID account with the State of Ohio, please visit this website for step-by-step instructions. Once your ID account is established, please send the completed '25-'26 Application, required proof of residency, and student birth certificate to Saint Ursula Academy for processing to Patrice Eby at [email protected]. Adjustments to your tuition account will not occur until after Saint Ursula Academy receives the official "award" notification from the family. Please continue to make your agreed-upon tuition payments as scheduled.
If you have any questions or need additional assistance with the Ohio EdChoice application process, please contact
Patrice Eby. If you have questions about your tuition accounts, please contact
Angela Steele.