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Community Centered Pricing
Community Centered Pricing

This past December, Marshall School announced Community Centered Pricing, a new approach to tuition designed to make the Marshall experience possible for more families in the Twin Ports. The Board of Trustees designed Community Centered Pricing to recognize that if education is a priority for a Twin Ports family, then making the Marshall experience affordable for a family is indeed a priority for the school.

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Marshall’s founders envisioned an independent school community reflective of the diversity in the region, which would bring families together around the importance of education. Today, Marshall students come from 56 different schools, two different states, and nine different countries, and over half of Marshall families receive assistance to attend. However, we believe we can do even better. With Community Centered Pricing, Marshall returns to the original promise of our founders and reasserts their intention. In simple terms, Marshall seeks to reflect the community we belong to, celebrate the community we are, and build the community we wish to be.

For new enrolling families, Marshall is introducing a guided tuition process. This approach customizes a family’s tuition to its specific financial circumstances. Marshall is committed to providing the highest quality educational program in the region. At the same time, we recognize that families have budgets, and it is our goal to work within those budgets so that we may have an inclusive, welcoming school that reflects our community.

An online tuition calculator will allow new applicants to estimate the cost of attendance from the privacy of their own homes. In most cases, the lower a family’s household income, the lower a family’s tuition.

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Alongside Community Centered Pricing, the new Marshall School Community Fund (MSCF) is a philanthropic fund dedicated to supporting Marshall’s commitment to creating an inclusive, diverse, and accessible educational community. The Fund, established by Don and Kathleen Annala, provides Marshall with broad discretion in the support of two objectives: Enhanced Access and Enhanced Opportunity. The Marshall School Community Fund was this year’s Fund-a-Need Project. To date, the school is pleased to announce over $120,000 in gifts have been received.

Technically, the MSCF is a quasi-endowment designed to work in conjunction with Community Centered Pricing to augment Marshall School’s commitment to equity and inclusion, most especially in the first few years of our new affordability initiative.

 

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