The Academy at Riverdale

EFA and The Academy at Riverdale

The Academy at Riverdale was not on the state's 2024-25 list of EFA participating schools, and it is not on the current list either. Schools can apply to participate each year, so ask whether it has applied. Until it does, an Education Freedom Account can't pay its tuition, though a homeschool or hybrid family may still use the account for other approved expenses.

In the federal Private School Survey (2023-24), the school reported 74 students, 7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-teacher ratio of about 10.6:1.

From kindergarten through grade 12, that's 13 school years. At the 2026-27 amount, a child who uses an account every year here would bring about $93,704 in state funding over that span. The amount is set each year, so treat this as a planning number.

Paying the balance

Former Succeed Scholarship students receive the higher 2026-27 amount of $8,011. Ask whether the school bills therapies separately, and whether those can be paid from the account.

Check my funding for this school →

Questions to ask the school

1. Have you applied to participate in the Education Freedom Account program?
2. Which diagnoses and support levels do you serve, and do you have openings for my child's grade?
3. How do you bill EFA families: directly through ClassWallet each quarter, or do we pay and get reimbursed?
4. 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?
5. Which discounts and aid apply on top of the account?
6. Which nationally norm-referenced test do you give, and will you share my child's results?
7. Which concurrent-credit courses do you offer, and can those fees come from the account?

Closest private schools

Straight-line distance from federal survey coordinates.